I like the handwavium used for gravitcs.
The original manuscript did go a bit into collectors, but it had to be cut to fit into the book (we purposefully wrote much more than required for the 168 pages, with the philosophy that it's best to have to cut something than find yourself short of it). Given the entire manual is written from an 'in-universe' perspective and the Third Imperium is not really familiar with collector technology, the authors stated they've heard of it, but no shipyard they've contacted knew how to make one and the IISS is apparently not sure they exist.How do collector and antimatter powered jump drives make a jump bubbles when there is no hydrogen?
How is the 'waste' helium separated from the fusion plasma? How is the 'waste' helium cooled down from the temperature inside the reactor to a temperature lower than the ambient temperature of the crew environment? How can a ship vent hot helium into space and not have a huge signature? How can a ship vent helium while in jump space?Cooling is more of an issue. Modern ships route
‘waste’ helium from the power plant into tubes running
throughout the ship at very low pressure, relative to
the fusion plant’s interior, to lower the temperature,
absorbing heat then venting it
Ok I will spell it out.
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How is the 'waste' helium separated from the fusion plasma?
How can a ship vent hot helium into space and not have a huge signature?
How can a ship vent helium while in jump space?
What powers the separator?
What happens to the waste heat from the separator?
How is it cooled down?
How is the 'waste' helium cooled down to such a degree it can be used as a coolant for the rest of the ship - where does the heat go?
And there is no hydrogen filled bubble - collectors exist as core tech now (Great Rift)
SOM p.105:
NUCLEAR DAMPERS AND MESON SCREENS
‘Nuclear damper’ is a generic term for several devices that project nodes and antinodes that enhance or to degrade the strong or weak nuclear force, such as by projecting fields of quarks that mediate these forces. . . .
p.69: neutrinos are uncharged, they can't cause Cherenkov radiation.
True, but the electrons and muons they create as they interact do generate the Cherenkov radiation.p.69: neutrinos are uncharged, they can't cause Cherenkov radiation.
The second is the exchange of virtual mesons that keeps protons and nucleons together. Now since in QFT a particle is just an expression of a field then it is correct to say meson field since mesons are made from quarks.
Another note. If Nuclear damper tech now affects both the strong interaction and the weak interaction then by TL12 there must be a GUT development. To cause beta decay requires weak interaction manipulation (W and Z bosons, maybe something involving neutrinos), while interfering with the strength of the strong interactions requires manipulating quarks and gluons
Me too, it is just nice to see Traveller authors finally using nuclear damper tech to handwave things rather than just say gravitics did it.Fair enough.
I have always assumed that such was the case at TL12.
Me too, it is just nice to see Traveller authors finally using nuclear damper tech to handwave things rather than just say gravitics did it.
I still want them to use my gravitic heat sink though...![]()
Neutrinos themselves cannot, but their (rare) interactions with other particles via the weak force do, and it's one of the most reliable ways to detect their presence currently available.p.69: neutrinos are uncharged, they can't cause Cherenkov radiation.