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Super-Gagme wrote:

vakundok wrote:Excuse me, I do not know anything about hypermatter, but isn't it possible that hypermatter has an 'anti-hypermatter' pair?

My theory on it is that all matter that exists in Hyperspace naturally is considered Hypermatter and since Anti-matter reactors need Matter mixed with anti-matter to generate power my guess is you mix Matter with Hypermatter and it creates some kind of power.

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Hypermatter is a kind of complex-mass ballast, that contributes to the transition from baryonic to tachyonic matter by the ship. It isn't known how it is transformed into energy.

Thanks.

So, it seems that noone really knows whether 'anti-hypermatter' or 'hyper-antimatter' exists. I questioned this because (most likely) the E=mc^2 would not apply for a hypermatter- 'anti-hypermatter' reaction.

Correct. All the numbers in that equation normally refer to real numbers.

But hypermatter's mass is expressed by a complex number (of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers, and i is the square root of -1).

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Correct. All the numbers in that equation normally refer to real numbers.

But hypermatter's mass is expressed by a complex number (of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers, and i is the square root of -1).

It is good to know. (It was eons ago when I last faced with complex numbers. )
However, I worried about the c^2, not about the mass. I didn't think it could be 'only' c for a tachyon (hypermatter).

Aren´t you confusing the hypermatter used as fuel (which is hyperdense) with the hyper-particle used to move the ship ftl?

Nope. The ultra-dense fuel in the silos is never referred to as hypermatter. Hypermatter is both the particles used by the hyperdrive, and annhiliated for energy.

I imagine the ultra-dense fuel is propellant for the engines (they have to eject something out).

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Hypermatter is both the particles used by the hyperdrive, and annhiliated for energy.

And I only imagined that the antimatter used by the EX-F was not 'normal' antimatter, but the 'anti'- pair of that hypermatter.
It is easier to imagine a special antimatter (since there is already a special matter) than kilotons of both normal and (conventional) antimatter stored onboard an SW ship.

vakundok wrote:

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Hypermatter is both the particles used by the hyperdrive, and annhiliated for energy.

And I only imagined that the antimatter used by the EX-F was not 'normal' antimatter, but the 'anti'- pair of that hypermatter.
It is easier to imagine a special antimatter (since there is already a special matter) than kilotons of both normal and (conventional) antimatter stored onboard an SW ship.

Uh, Hypermetter is an annihilatory reactant. Besides, if it were Hypermatter inside the EX-F, they would have specified "hypermatter"