Hahaha.....
Yeah we are pretty far off topic I guess. I will attempt to get us back on track here, place your bets, place your bets. Oh and by the way, I never view a verbal confrontation as an argument. To me everything is possible, therefore, I debate. When I am wrong and am clearly proven so, I am always the first to admit it. You have brought up some good points and now I wish to address them..... or debate them if you will.
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wave is a disturbance that propagates through space or space-time, often transferring energy. While a mechanical wave exists in a medium (which on deformation is capable of producing elastic restoring forces), waves of electromagnetic radiation (and probably gravitational radiation) can travel through vacuum, that is, without a medium. Waves travel and transfer energy from one point to another, with little or no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium (there is little or no associated mass transport); instead there are oscillations around fixed positions.
Sound is a mechanical wave that propagates through air, liquid or solids and is of a frequency detected by the auditory system. Seismic waves are similar, most often as the result of tectonic movement. This type of wave can be produced through several different types of Mediums, Linear, bounded, uniform and isotropic.
Radio waves, Microwaves, infrared rays, visible light, ultraviolet rays, x-rays and gamma rays make up
electromagnetic radiation. In this case, propagation is possible without a medium, through vacuum. Which brings me to my point. Break heat down to it's most basic form ( the causes ) and it can, at times, travel within a wave.
Heat tends to move from a high temperature region to a low temperature region. This heat transfer may occur by conduction or radiation. In engineering, the term convective heat transfer is used to describe the combined effects of conduction and fluid flow and is regarded as a third mechanism of heat transfer.
Conduction is the most common form of heat transfer in a solid. It occurs when hot, rapidly moving or vibrating atoms and molecules interact with neighboring atoms and molecules, transferring some of their energy (
heat ) to these neighboring atoms. In insulators the heat flux is carried almost entirely by phonon vibrations. A phonon is a quantized mode of vibration and plays a major role in many of the physical properties of solids, including a material's thermal and electrical conductivities. In particular, the properties of long-wavelength phonons gives rise to sound in solids. (
Harmonics ) Which in turn brings us to frequencies. Whoa...... Did I just make a connection between heat and sound? Get Out! Damn I'm Good!
Convection is usually the dominant form of heat transfer in liquids and gases. Combining the effects of conduction and fluid flow. In convection, enthalpy transfer occurs by the movement of hot or cold portions of the fluid together with heat transfer by conduction. Two types of convection are commonly distinguished, free convection, in which gravity and buoyancy forces drive the fluid movement, and forced convection, where a fan, stirrer, or other means is used to move the fluid.
Radiation is the only form of heat transfer that can occur in the absence of any form of medium and as such is the only means of heat transfer through a vacuum. Thermal radiation is a direct result of the movements of atoms and molecules in a material. Since these atoms and molecules are composed of charged particles (protons and electrons), their movements result in the emission of electromagnetic radiation. The frequencies (harmonics) of the emitted photons are described by the Planck distribution. A black body at higher temperature will emit photons having a distributional peak at a higher frequency than will a colder object, and their respective spectral peaks ( Light wavelengths ) will be separated. Whenever electromagnetic radiation is emitted and then absorbed, heat is transferred. This principle is used in Microwaves, laser cutting and RF hair removal.
Now, I have made a very basic connection between energy, heat, waves, sound, and light. No, not all variations travel in wave form, but at least one variant in each does, thus if we significantly enhance our technology, a variation of a sonic weapon, capable of being used in a vacuum may be feasible. Will it be anything close to what we think of as being a sonic weapon? Probably not, but as we have seen above, the possibility is out there, or at least it seems.
What does this mean for the game? Well, if there was a way in my opinion, to assign 2 different attacking values to the weapon...... somewhat like you were saying Regicide, an alternate way to deliver the sonic weapon,
| The only way I can imagine a sonic(transfers and magnifies vibration to match target's resonating frequency, or to distort with an expanding centrical wave along the surface, for example) weapon in space is to first use a particle beam to maintain a stream of particles between your and the enemy ship, and then use some kind of resonator to excite a wave that is supposed to rip the hull on a molecular level. |
then you could effectively have a fourth type of weapon but maintain only three different types of dmg. Spreading the ( Sonic ) dmg over 2 different defensive abilities.
So now I have managed to get us back on topic as well! Man I am having so much fun.... screw the game!
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