Questions tagged [plasma]
For questions related to the state of superheated matter.
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what wounds would a plasma weapon actually create?
Plasma is a quite common weapon in sci-fi, despite the realistic problems this has when weaponizing it.
Now pretty much all media showcases plasma weapons as being cauterizing weapons. But plasma ...
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Plasma Railgun Toroids [closed]
In my world, the base kinetic weapon is a chemical railgun, with both gunpowder(or an equivalent) and electromagnetic rails propelling the rounds. A second round type is very hot burning chemicals ...
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Is a plasma force shield feasible? [duplicate]
I am somewhat obsessed with the plasma shields the Gungans use to protect their troops in Star Wars Episode I. They are effective against the laser cannon blasts of the Trade Federation troops but ...
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Can I shoot a synthetic solar plasma out of a rail gun?
First, I'm assuming without asking that I can generate a blob of charged particles like the Sun's solar flares plasma. My thought was more directly related to HOW to shoot it? Isn't the real thing ...
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What noise would a nuclear gas turbine make? [closed]
At the core of the powerpacks of the upcoming generation of powered exoskeletons are dusty plasma fission fragment reactors, in which nanoparticles of nuclear fuel inside a vacuum undergo a fission ...
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How close can I get to a nuclear explosion with extreme shielding?
Imagine you are in empty space, and a 15 megaton nuclear bomb is very close to you (D=200 meters), but what's also very close to you is a giant (Tungsten?) cylinder (2? meters in diameter, 100? meters ...
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Electric Arc Discharge Plasma and other forms of Plasma tech as a weapon
I'm making a weapon for my character which looks like a sword or is used as such but is segmented to give it whip like flexibility (restricted movement for safety) when needed. Each segment has metal ...
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How would an element behave that's a plasma at room temperature?
I'm considering a world where there's an element that has an element that's naturally a plasma. I'm wondering what the broad behavior of such an element would be. Would it be inherently unstable, ...
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How would a "plasma torus", generated from Phobos to create a magnetosphere, look from the surface of Mars? How would it work?
One theory for how to create a magnetosphere around Mars is to generate a plasma torus by "evaporating matter from Phobos or Deimos, ionizing it and using electromagnetic current drive techniques ...
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What atmosphere composition would make my weapon shoot orange plasma?
I am planning on painting a Warhammer 40k army that uses orange plasma for their energy based weapons, and use that exact same orange plasma for my worldbuilding, and other unrelated works of writing.
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Plasma windows as justification for Free Electron Lasers?
There are two main types of military lasers: Free Electron Lasers (FEL lasers from now on) and Medium Lasers.
FEL lasers work by "wiggling" electrons through a line of magnets to create ...
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What kind of effect would a tank shell that create plasma on impact have on armour? [closed]
What kind of effect would a tank shell that create plasma on impact have on armour? These projectiles are made up of 3 main parts, a gas canister holding the gas, a capacitor that is used to heat the ...
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Viability of Plasma Weaponry for Handheld Purpose in SciFi
I'm writing a short story and I'm intending to have one of the characters utilizing a plasma weapon as infantry. The way I'm planning on explaining it is the plasma is kept in a slightly unstable ...
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Is my Plasma Gun concept realistic? And if not what can I do to make it more feasible?
I'm a university student so I have a relatively limited knowledge of such physics concepts, however I have researched fusion reactors and ion engines, both theories I incorporated into my design.
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What would a cold plasma based force field feel like to the touch?
As a plasma-based force field would simply feel really really hot and consuming end up burning anybody who touched it, a cold plasma-based force field would seem to be more in order. For convenience, ...
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Venting Fusion reactor plasma to create a plasma shield?
Assuming that humanity can build as large as a fusion reactor needed to sustain fusion for as long as needed, would it even be half feasible to vent out the spare plasma (kind of like how a feasible ...
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constructs of sentient plasma life in a brown dwarf
If plasma life did evolve in a brown dwarf and it did somehow become sentient, what kinds of things could they construct? Would they be limited to just pruning the bigger autotrophs or could they ...
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What could plasma life look like?
Let's say there was plasma life living in a brown dwarf. What shapes could we expect them to take? I'm not picky about what level of life, autotroph to sentient are of interest.
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