View to a Kill

[emperorpenguin]

How about "Matter cannons", they must be matter, therefore can act as a carrier for sound?

a plasma cannon is matter too

 

[Locutus9956]

Again though were talking CANNON rather than Beam. Theres no continous stream of matter for sound to possibly travel along its a big 'chunk' of plasma traveling towards the target rather than a stream as I always saw it

 

[emperorpenguin]

Again though were talking CANNON rather than Beam. Theres no continous stream of matter for sound to possibly travel along its a big 'chunk' of plasma traveling towards the target rather than a stream as I always saw it

I wasn't being serious and I hope Burger wasn't either..... :wink:

 

[Burger]

What about lightning cannons? They are "cannon" but they are beams. And "Particle beams",t hey are beams although they don't have the beam trait. And mag guns have beam trait but aren't beams.

So sound transmittability really has nothing to do with the weapon name, or its traits!

 

[emperorpenguin]

So sound transmittability really has nothing to do with the weapon name, or its traits!

nope but it has a hell of a lot to do with space being a vaccuum :wink:

 

[lastbesthope]

HOWEVER: PARTICLE Beams on the other hand are just that and its possible in theory for sound to travel along them but Id consider it extremely unlikely as the particles in such a beam are all traveling towarde the target. The effect of sound waves might slow some of them DOWN slightly (and by slightly I mean almost imperceptibly) but I HUGELY doubt theyd be detectable by the firing ship in any way.

And the 'doppler shift' like effect on any sound wave that made it back would be a killer.

LBH

 

[Burger]

And the 'doppler shift' like effect on any sound wave that made it back would be a killer.

That would only depend on the relative speeds of the ships involved, surely.

 

[Locutus9956]

not so, the dopler shift to the sound would depend on the relative speed of the ship to the sound wave, if the sound wave is in a medium moving away from you at close to light speed (as in a paticle beam) then youre going to have issues...

and Burger I wasnt really refering to CANNONS so much as Plasma Cannons specifically Ive alwyas considered to be more of a pulse sort of thing.

 

[Burger]

Oh yeah, back to elementary physics school for me