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Antimatter Rocket-like Exhaust Plume... Very Little Expansion If Any in Upper Atmosphere?


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If I am correct, and feel free to correct me, the exhaust plume of a rocket burning chemical exhaust at a rate on par with an antimatter rocket in atmosphere would shoot out a really long plume that is pointy at the end like an ion rocket.

 

Meaning that exhaust is moving so fast that it won't expand much if at all where it is visible to the naked eye.

 

Even in upper atmosphere.

 

Am I right or wrong?

 

 

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51 minutes ago, Shpaget said:

You'll have to provide specs for this AM rocket for anybody to be able to make a comparison.

 

 

Alright then... prepare for a journey down the scifi rabbit hole of my mind then.

It's essentially a more refined idea based off an earlier one.

Tactile Kinetic Metal: Can move liquids or solids in contact with it across it or simply pull them toward it while sitting upon it (which allows for 1g simulation by the way so long your feet are planted on the metal).

However it is also used for very simple rocketry. Take a propellant tank of water, release some and the nozzle which is made of the tactile kinetic variety will move the water out so fast that it burns and become a rocket plume on par with a antimatter/matter annihilation mixed with water propellant.

Powering up: The metal derives it's limited tactile kinesis from electrical power and can charge up enough electrical power to equal it's own mass (meaning a kilogram powerbank of this metal would weigh 2 kilograms fully charged). Trying to further charge a fully charged powerbank would merely heat it up and too much heat would cause it to release all stored energy in a catastrophic explosion.

 

Using tactile kinesis gradually depletes the charge, or you can even disharge the entire charge at once... though that would more than likely be more than enough to totally wreck something.

 

The best thing about the technology is that it makes both mass accelerators and rocketry really easy so long you have mass to throw or exhaust.

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Anything hitting atmosphere will slow down: the masons, atomic fragments that can be magnetically funneled out an exhaust, produced in even the cleanest antimatter-matter reaction of anti-protons and protons while hit atmosphere before they decay,  creating an explosion behind it of superheated plasma. Sure in the vacuum of space it will produce a beam that will decay into nothing as the masons eventually end up one way or another as gamma rays.  

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5 hours ago, RuBisCO said:

Anything hitting atmosphere will slow down: the masons

Illuminati as well.

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Btw, back to the antimatter explosion non-radioactiveness.

Does everyone realize that since early 1950s (Mark 5 charge) many (the most of?) nukes are run by photofission in plutonium caused by X-ray emission of portable betatron, rather than neutron injection?

The gamma from the AM explosion should cause mass photofission even in non-fissionable materials, create a lot of radioactive junk around.

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