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From: spinner@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (Spinner)
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Subject: Re: Phasers, and Photon Torp
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 17:50:28 EST
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>> 	If a photon torpedo travels faster than the speed of light, why
>> is it a PHOTON torpedo?

>It is a Photon torpedo because it uses a Photon guidance system.

>> 	If a photon torpedo is a matter/antimatter bomb, why call it a
>> photon torpedo?  Rather call it a mass-anihilation bomb or antimatter
>> torpedo.

As I understand it, a matter/antimatter reaction gives off most of its energy
in gamma radiation (i.e. high energy photons of light).  Hence the name
photon torpedo...

Ron Spinner (Spinner@caip.rutgers.edu)