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[Thorin]

They're called photon torpedoes because the energy released by the m/am reaction is manifested as photons

As opposed to every other explosive, warhead, torpedo and missile which doesn't give off photons?

[stitch626]

I wonder if an antiphoton exists...

[Lazar]

Maybe "photon" refers to the fact that they use warp drives, and thus can travel faster than light. On the other hand, we've quite often seen photorps traveling at apparently subilght velocities. Maybe it takes them a while to accelerate?

[stitch626]

Well, PTs have the ability to travel at warp if launched at warp. Otherwise they would just waste fuel.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Yep - remember that ep where we first meet K'Ehleyr: she traveled to E-D in a torpedo casing at warp.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

* I only know how to spell 'K'Ehleyr' because I looked her up on the main site

[stitch626]

Same here man. Honestly, I think her name is a typo in the script and everyone agreed to use it.

[Nickswitz]

Same here man. Honestly, I think her name is a typo in the script and everyone agreed to use it.

No, they were laughing too much to change it.

[IanKennedy]

Oh, god no please. Photons do not have mass. They do not bend due to gravity, they simply follow the curvature of space. One simple bit of logic you can think about to prove to yourself that they have no mass. If photons had mass, and this is why their direction is altered by gravity, then they would be slower when traveling away from a large mass, like a star, and faster when moving towards it. After all if gravity was strong enough to bend the path of light it would surely be able to pull back on the photons as they moved away from that mass. Equally they would be accelerated when moving towards that mass.

Try reconciling that with the fact that the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant.

[Thorin]

You could probably have just quoted my post

[LaughingCheese]

I wonder if an antiphoton exists...

They should, according to supersymmetry.

Perhaps PT's are called 'photon torpedoes' due to their energy casing (what makes them glow)?


I know in my Star Wars dictionary, artillery shells are somehow 'coated' with an energy casing that increases their penetration power. I guess its kind of like putting a missile/shell in a 'plasma'/energy weapon.


Oh, and welcome Schrodingers Hat!


(I could have sworn I saw the title of this thread change from Hat and Cat several times??????? )

[Foxfyre]

Welcome!

I'm Aeon an all round nice guy who runs around DITL dancing nak........wait hold on forgot my meds, ok lets try again

Hello I'm Aeon an all around nice guy not psycho at all, How goes it?