----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Harney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:48 AM Subject: Re: Outlandish but exceedingly fun.
> > From: "Travis Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <snip> > > > > > >Forget the neutronium hull. What I want is some of the stuff they used > to > > >brace the interior so the neutronium hull wouldn't collapse into a solid > > >sphere under its own weight and self-gravity. Now _that_ has to be > strong > > >stuff . . . > > > > > > > > > > > >-- Ronn! :) > > > > > > > I'm pretty sure that's a highly improbable scenario. Isn't gravity based > on > > size and not weight? If so, then I should also point out that the planet > > killer isn't THAT big. So the neutronium may be dense enough to create a > few > > engineering problems, but the gravitational pull would technically be too > > weak to cause problems, right? > > Nope, mass causes gravity, size doesn't. Admitted, most very large objects > also have lots of mass, but a volume of highly dense matter would produce > more gravity than an equal volume of low density matter. Technically, > though, since it was almost cylindrical (which would act like an arch) and > mostly hollow, I imagine that, if the neutronium is strong enough to be > impervious to most weapons, it would probably be able to support it's own > inward gravity as that gravity shouldn't be that massive. Lets see, the densities we would be talking about are around 3*10^14 g/cc. The mass of the sun is 2 x 10^33 g. So, the mass of the sun would be packed into a sphere of about 6*10^18 cc. or 6*10^12 m or 6*10^3 km. This would require a sphere roughly 10 km in radius. But, the radius is, roughly 70000* smaller than the sun's, so the force of gravity would be close to 5 billion times as strong as that found on the surface of the sun. The weapon is a cone, not a sphere, but the force of gravity would be huge. If desired, I could probably calculate the maximum force, given the dimensions...and the free time to write the program. :-) Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
