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"name": "How could a disruptor weapon feasibly work?",
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"content": "<p>First a definition for this question, because there are many kinds of sci-fi out there and they sometimes liberally use cool sounding words without explaining them:</p>\n<p>A disruptor is a kind of weapon that weakens, or “disrupts”, either material bonds (breaking a material into molecules), molecular bonds (breaking a molecule into atoms), or atomic bonds (breaking an atomic nucleus into protons, netrons, and free electrons. Almost like instantly turning into plasma).</p>\n<p>Temperature can do these things, but the idea behind a disruptor, specifically, is that it happens through some kind of catalyst, rather than brute-forcing with insane amounts of heat.</p>\n<p>Would such a weapon physically be possible (even if we don’t know how to make them just yet)?</p>\n<p>How would a target realistically behave when hit by a disruptor?</p>\n",
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"content": "First a definition for this question, because there are many kinds of sci-fi out there and they sometimes liberally use cool sounding words without explaining them:\n\nA disruptor is a kind of weapon that weakens, or \"disrupts\", either material bonds (breaking a material into molecules), molecular bonds (breaking a molecule into atoms), or atomic bonds (breaking an atomic nucleus into protons, netrons, and free electrons. Almost like instantly turning into plasma).\n\nTemperature can do these things, but the idea behind a disruptor, specifically, is that it happens through some kind of catalyst, rather than brute-forcing with insane amounts of heat.\n\nWould such a weapon physically be possible (even if we don't know how to make them just yet)?\n\nHow would a target realistically behave when hit by a disruptor? ",
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"published": "2024-09-03T19:21:51.639906Z",
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