What is Hypermatter?

[Illuminatus Primus]

If you could give your best educated guess for what SW hypermatter is, what would it be?

[Darth Wong]

If you could give your best educated guess for what SW hypermatter is, what would it be?

Tachyonic matter whose mass is described with imaginary numbers and which circulates around a SW ship as a sort of ballast, as described in the SW2ICS.

[Illuminatus Primus]

I thought it was a power-source?

I thought the hyperdense fuel referred to hypermatter which is a form of matter using different arrangements of quarks to create much more massive atomic nuclei. At least that was someone's theory. And aren't the reactors "annhiliation" cores?

[Darth Phoenix]

Heard somewhere that a Hypermatter reactor draws the energy directly from hyperspace.

[Peregrin Toker]

I heard someone suggest that hypermatter was a particular dense type of anti-matter. Hypermatter is definately not the "negative matter" proposed to exist by some physicists, which repels all normal matter.

[Publius]

If you could give your best educated guess for what SW hypermatter is, what would it be?

Tachyonic matter whose mass is described with imaginary numbers and which circulates around a SW ship as a sort of ballast, as described in the SW2ICS.

What does it mean for a mass to be described with imaginary numbers?

[Peregrin Toker]

If you could give your best educated guess for what SW hypermatter is, what would it be?

Tachyonic matter whose mass is described with imaginary numbers and which circulates around a SW ship as a sort of ballast, as described in the SW2ICS.

What does it mean for a mass to be described with imaginary numbers?

Theoretical numbers, perhaps??

[FX]

If imaginary numbers are used to show a unit of measurement it means that it isn't actually there, but under conditions it acts like it is there.

To give an example a coil of wire has a resistance measured with an imaginary number. Under DC voltage the resistance is basically 0, but under AC the coil's resistance can go up to almost infinity depending on frequency.

Getting back to hypermatter the material would be almost massless while in storage, and then become very heavy in a reactor that converts the mass into energy.

[omegaLancer]

From the ICS for Aotc, it is stated that Hypermatter is ultradense form of matter and that the this is used as fuel and the ship fuel weight many times the mass of the ship itself.

Hypermatter as define by Physics is usually a form of matter who particles are composed of heavy quarks ( The Strange is the most stable of the heavy Quarks). Strangelet, Charmnium and Hyperonium ( where Hyperions replace nuetrons and proton in an atomic nucleus) would be typical example.

Strangelets ( matter where a strange quark replace a Down or Up quark) would have density of Neutronium with a single speck weighing several tons.
and would have an antistrange form that can be used to create an anti strangelet strangelet reaction ( super antimatter)

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http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~ ... r/ger.html

Even denser form of matter can be created. Monopolium with a monopole replacing an electron or Higgsinium , where the Super symmetrical partner or the Higgs boson replacing an electron would be just as massive and dense ( 75 time more massive than normal iron atom and 10>12 times more dense).

Higgsinium could be used to create either a fusion reaction with elements lighter than iron or a fission reaction with elements heavy than matter and would be a potential source of power with the end product being Higginosium and iron.


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http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Author ... ng/Moravec
H/HDPSF.html

While Monopolium could be used to store energical energy.. A monopole can also be a source of power by causing a proton to decay into a positron..

And strange quark can also be used to create energy by actually having strange quark interacting with protons and neutron to create strangelet by converting the one of the U or D quarks to a S quark..

[Darth Wong]

Actually, in the introduction to AOTC:ICS, we have:

Hyperdrives adjust faster-than-light "hypermatter" particles to allow a jump to light-speed without changing the complex mass and energy of the ship.

Hypermatter is tachyonic matter, as opposed to present-day use of the terminology. The "hyper" obviously refers to hyperspace in this case.

[Patrick Degan]

Actually, in the introduction to AOTC:ICS, we have:

Hyperdrives adjust faster-than-light "hypermatter" particles to allow a jump to light-speed without changing the complex mass and energy of the ship.

Hypermatter is tachyonic matter, as opposed to present-day use of the terminology. The "hyper" obviously refers to hyperspace in this case.

So... in this definition, you've got energy being derived from the reactions of particle matter existing in an FTL or tachyonic state. That is if I'm reading this correctly.

Up until now, I've speculated that hypermatter might refer to some form of ultradense material, such as that found within a neutron star, a black hole, or presumably even the material makeup of Darkstar's skull.