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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cubic Centimeter: [QB] OK, I posted this before, but it was lost during a site upgrade... I guess. I haven't had time to write it again until today. First, this theory makes no attempt at explaining why phasers emit light radially, anymore than I will attempt to expalin the whoooosh a ship makes when it flies by! I think this is a dramatic point rather than technical, because I believe we saw lasers radially shine in "Peak Performance". Besides, silent space ships firing invisible weapons would suck <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0" alt="" /> Nadions are short-lived (microseconds) particles of a family known as hadronic bosons, or more commonly, mesons. Like all mesons, they are subject of the strong nuclear force, unlike other mesons, however, they can temporarily trap and store the binding energy between quarks in atomic nuclei. Quarks are bound into protons and neutrons by the strong force, transmitted by eight particles called gluons. Gluons serve to change the "color" of the quarks and keep them attracted to one another. Nadions disrupt the exchange of gluons between quarks, temporarily decoupling the binding energy. In low-energy conditions, a nadion that absorbs a gluon will decay, with one of the decay products being a gluon, which takes the place of the absorbed gluon, thus restoring the binding energy. If the intial nadion energy is great enough, the trapped binding energy can escape upon nadion decay, causing a permanent loss in quark binding energy. The free energy manifests itself as neutral particles called chromions (named after the "color" of the strong force). These are the constituents of the modern phaser beam, with a few nadions thrown in to validate Janeway's comment on Voyager. The fushigi-no-umi class of artificial crystals is excellent for producing chromions. The near perfect lattice structure of these crystals aid in causing the cascade nadion reaction (CNR), essential to the phaser effect. When nadions strike many atoms in the crystal in a row, the free binding energy does not escape, but is instead coupled with the energy released by neighboring atoms. This "force coupling" is known as the cascade nadion reaction, which travels along the lattice structure, building in magnitude until it reaches a point at which it must be released, call it the critical energy threshold (CET). At discharge, a tight beam of chromions is released from the crystal surface and travels at c to the target, where they cause a release of energy from atomic nuclei similar to the nadion effect in the emitter crystal. The quarks in the target's nuclei tend to move apart due to the decoupling of the strong force by the chromion beam. These quickly recombine into random unstable mesons and baryons, which themselves decay into stable particles. A chain reaction is setup in the target as more chromions are released by the struck atoms, similar to excitation in a laser. The degree of phaser effectiveness depends on atomic mass and density, evidenced by the fact that the "eating away effect " never spreads to the surrounding air (low density) or the ground (high atomic mass). The higher the atomic mass, the lower the chromion:gluon ratio. [b]The Phaser Effect[/b] In ship mounted phaser strips, the force coupling CNR travels along the strip in two opposing directions. This helps to control beam emission direction. The energy carried by one CNR is equal to the CET minus the energy carried by the other CNR. When the two meet on the phaser strip, the combined energy is equal to the CET, and beam emission occurs. Emission angle is determined by the value and polarity of the electric field across the crystal; no field means beam emission at 90 degrees to the crystal surface. Because chromions are generated from binding energy of atomic nuclei in the emitter crystal, the crystal actually loses mass, which eventually facilitates crystal replacement. There was more detail in the original post, but I can't remember where I put some of the details. If there is anything I have failed to account for, let me know. cm^3 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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