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The metal itself isn't self-healing, but the droid as a whole is.

consequences wrote:But nuking the innards would at least take care of the resonance torpedos, and if anyone rebuilds it, you can always use Bean's solution and Ion Cannon the bejeezus out of it.

True. Oh well, just chalk it up to KJA.

Pg. 278: "By introducing quantum-crystalline armor, where only a few layers of atoms are stacked as densely as physics permits, laminated on top of another thin film just as tough but phase shifted, we can be confident that nothing will harm it. Not so much as a dent."

Um ... wouldn't "phase-shifting" the material create interference, while leaving the atoms at the same phase would allow them to reinforce each other?

I think it's just a way to describe a layered armour with each layer at the same strenght. It doesn't make any particular sense, "phase" can refer to any number of things.

nightmare wrote:I think it's just a way to describe a layered armour with each layer at the same strenght. It doesn't make any particular sense, "phase" can refer to any number of things.

In physics, phase refers to the position on a graph of a wave, nothing else, as far as I know.

Durandal wrote:

nightmare wrote:I think it's just a way to describe a layered armour with each layer at the same strenght. It doesn't make any particular sense, "phase" can refer to any number of things.

In physics, phase refers to the position on a graph of a wave, nothing else, as far as I know.

I think KJA is refering to phase, as in the same Trek phase-wanking, just change the phase and everything's merry! What an idiot.

Warspite wrote:

Durandal wrote:

nightmare wrote:I think it's just a way to describe a layered armour with each layer at the same strenght. It doesn't make any particular sense, "phase" can refer to any number of things.

In physics, phase refers to the position on a graph of a wave, nothing else, as far as I know.

I think KJA is refering to phase, as in the same Trek phase-wanking, just change the phase and everything's merry! What an idiot.

Me too, and using the proper, physical definition of phase, he looks like a complete idiot, of course.

There is no need to use the word "quantum" to describe a layered atomic-packed lattice, since that is the nature of all metals.

The only application of the word "quantum" to this situation might be that the SW galaxy has somehow found a way to make crystalline solid structures using subatomic particles.

The only quantum Crystal I ever heard about is a pion crystal and it was mention in reference to the core of a nuetron star.

I can't be that. The drives would have to be the size of an SD to push something with the mass of just the armor the Sun Crusher had.