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[QUOTE]Originally posted by James Fox: [QB] Well, a Quick Web Search revealed the following link: [URL=http://www.magicdragon.com/ComputerFutures/SpacePublications/STAR.html]http://www.magicdragon.com/ComputerFutures/SpacePublications/STAR.html[/URL] which gives the density of LH2 at 0.078 g/cc, and the density of solid hydrogen at 0.076 g/cc (which rather surprises me). I suppose 0.077 g/cc could do for slush hydrogen. Personally, however, I always thought that the matter and antimatter would be in solid metallic form, since to get a good clean reaction the two components should be mixed well before the reaction occurs, and the best way to do this could be to have granules that are suspended in space by some kind of field, one could then try to mix them beforehand without having the granules actually touch, until one is ready to detonate the torpedo. Also, from the TNG TM, since the antimatter tanks on the ship are much smaller than the matter tanks, antimatter would have to be stored at a very high density in order to match the amount of matter, thus requiring it to be stored in metallic form, which is much denser than solid. Next, anti-neutrons exist, since animatter is not just charge-reversed matter. See: [URL=http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/9812/p01230d.html]http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/9812/p01230d.html[/URL] for a quick definiton. Finally, since Starfleet ships are apparently able to refuel thier stocks of deuterium from interstellar gas clouds, I would think they have a proton-proton fusion process better than any conjectured by current science, so they could perhaps have an antimatter one to create anti-deuterium. Personally, I think that having symmetric M/AM reactions is much cleaner. James Fox [/QB][/QUOTE]
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