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Kanuckistan wrote:

Celestial Seibutsu wrote: But if you can take negative mass and add it to positive mass which in turn destroys the positive mass, then why not make a weapon of some kind to disperse it on your enemies?

Because it nullifies at a 1:1 ratio - one kilo eats a kilo of enemy armour, and that's it.

You might as well use antimatter instead, then you have one kilo of projectile eating one kilo of enemy hull and spitting out 45 megatons TNTe of energy, point-blank.

Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!

Central Facehuggeria wrote:

Kanuckistan wrote:

Celestial Seibutsu wrote: But if you can take negative mass and add it to positive mass which in turn destroys the positive mass, then why not make a weapon of some kind to disperse it on your enemies?

Because it nullifies at a 1:1 ratio - one kilo eats a kilo of enemy armour, and that's it.

You might as well use antimatter instead, then you have one kilo of projectile eating one kilo of enemy hull and spitting out 45 megatons TNTe of energy, point-blank.

Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!

That was my thoughts exactly.

Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products?

Solar Communes wrote:Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products?

BRILLIANT!

This calls for some use of SCIENCE!

The Cerberus Alliance wrote:

Solar Communes wrote:Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products?

BRILLIANT!

This calls for some use of SCIENCE!

The Cerberus Alliance's sig wrote:This won't end well.

Central Facehuggeria wrote: Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!

Because 1:1 mass-eating is less effective than modern, iRL bullets at doing damage.

Plus you have all the handling issues, including negative inertia, which alone makes it a bitch - much worse than antimatter.



...tho it might make a decent penetrator for getting through indestructible uber-armour.

Solar Communes wrote:Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products?

If you don't mind massive blood loss and traumatic injury.

Kanuckistan wrote:

Central Facehuggeria wrote: Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!

Because 1:1 mass-eating is less effective than modern, iRL bullets at doing damage.

Plus you have all the handling issues, including negative inertia, which alone makes it a bitch - much worse than antimatter.



...tho it might make a decent penetrator for getting through indestructible uber-armour.

The reasoning for using negative mass rounds would be for law enforcement where collateral damage is not something you'd want to happen. In war it just means you killed the guy and the guy next to him. Use it in more confined spaces, maybe also use it for contained black ops operations like maybe extraction or hostage situations.

Celestial Seibutsu wrote:

Kanuckistan wrote:

Central Facehuggeria wrote: Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!

Because 1:1 mass-eating is less effective than modern, iRL bullets at doing damage.

Plus you have all the handling issues, including negative inertia, which alone makes it a bitch - much worse than antimatter.



...tho it might make a decent penetrator for getting through indestructible uber-armour.

The reasoning for using negative mass rounds would be for law enforcement where collateral damage is not something you'd want to happen. In war it just means you killed the guy and the guy next to him. Use it in more confined spaces, maybe also use it for contained black ops operations like maybe extraction or hostage situations.

But you'd need to fire pretty big bullets at them. What's the mass of a standard round, say, 20 grams. That's how much matter it'd nullify. It wouldn't even penetrate organs!

The Mindset wrote: But you'd need to fire pretty big bullets at them. What's the mass of a standard round, say, 20 grams. That's how much matter it'd nullify. It wouldn't even penetrate organs!

much the same as the effects of rubber bullets.

Celestial Seibutsu wrote:

The Mindset wrote: But you'd need to fire pretty big bullets at them. What's the mass of a standard round, say, 20 grams. That's how much matter it'd nullify. It wouldn't even penetrate organs!

much the same as the effects of rubber bullets.

Nope, no concussive force. There's no energy release when nullification takes place, and momentum is not conserved unless both target and bullet are travelling in the same direction. It'd literally be like a chunk of your skin disappeared.