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There was an old BBC show called "Connections" and it was fascinating.
They'd tell you how two, seemingly, unrelated items or events led from one to another with lots of steps in between.
It really colored how I looked at technology and it's why I notice some things that some people don't or I question things that others don't examine.
Today's connection: Are the meson gun and nuke damper related?
Yes.
It's explicitly stated in GURPS: Traveller.
It isn't in LBB Traveller, but I'd speculated that they had to be related because the meson gun is keeping the mesons from decaying until they're at the desired distance; and that implies we're manipulating shit like a nuke damper does.
I believe the reduction in size of fusion power plants at higher tech levels is also to the same control of nuclear particles that are controlled in meson guns and nuclear dampers. And bonded superdense armor.
ReplyDeleteIt stands to reason. Once you're able to control the appearance of mesons and control actual fast nuclear reactions, controlling a slow nuclear reaction or other atomic-level atomic stuff should appear.
James Burke is a science historian in the same league as minds like Newton, Franklin, Einstein, or DaVinci.
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