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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrneutron: [QB] Crusher's calling Woodside an idiot was really uncalled for, especially considering that his question was reasonable. Woodside wasn't saying the Enterprise was nuclear powered per se, but just making an analogy about blasts in an atmosphere as opposed to in (the near vacuum of) low orbit. And, he's right. Shock waves per se don't propogate in a vacuum, no matter how powerful the blast. And while matter-antimatter reactions do release a lot of energy, they do so mostly in the form of energetic radiation. Within the confines of the ship, this would be hellish, and very much like a nuclear explosion to the nth-power. But across a vacuum where there's no atmosphere to heat up or otherwise react with, the result would be a rapidly dissipating sphere of debris and energized particles, the impact of which would fall off to almost nothing right away. Even if the whole stardrive were unifomrly vaporized, it didn't have enough mass to result in the kind of saucer-whacking shockwave shown. The only stuff that should have "hit" the saucer were a) radiation b) unvaporized hunks of the stardrive section and c) any stray antimatter particles that didn't contact matter in the explosion. A star blowing up would be another matter. The same physics apply, 'natch, but the blast front would be pretty nasty at great distance just fron the massive volume matter that would be scattered by the blast. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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