demoncase, here is a Star Trek type question for you:
We know that materials such as iron and steel and plastic are at their basic components electrons, just arranged in different forms. What type or level of technology would it take, to be able to somehow focus and concentrate electrons and electricity, to directly build and form materials and even finished products, directly from electrons and electric fields, without the need for all of the intermediate steps that are involved in modern industry? It would be like a replicator that works on electricity and forms the atoms directly from the electricity. What would be needed to make this work?
Something which fundamentally rewrites the base rules of reality and is dealing with collapsing star levels of energy.
Something that would best to see work from the safe distance of several hundred light years away.
Warhammer 40000 is- basically- Lord Of The Rings on a cocktail of every drug known to man and genuine lunar dust, stuck in a blender with Alien, Mechwarrior, Dune, Starship Troopers, Fahrenheit 451 and Star Wars, bathed in blood, turned up to eleventy billion, set on fire, and catapulted off into space screaming "WAAAGH!" and waving a chainsaw sword- without the happy ending.
Someone said that the truly fundamental particles that make up all matter and space are these ultra tiny atom like things that make up all larger forms of matter and energy and space. The claim put forth is that one single photon is composed of over 10^50 of these ultimate quantum atoms. What do you think of that claim? They further said that if human science could ever learn to manipulate these 'ultimate atoms of space" then it would be an ultimate technology.
Someone said that the truly fundamental particles that make up all matter and space are these ultra tiny atom like things that make up all larger forms of matter and energy and space. The claim put forth is that one single photon is composed of over 10^50 of these ultimate quantum atoms. What do you think of that claim? They further said that if human science could ever learn to manipulate these 'ultimate atoms of space" then it would be an ultimate technology.
Thing to understand with quarks is that the very smartest people on the planet came up with 6 names: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Charm and Strange.
The cleverest people can only describe some building block of matter as 'strange'- that should tell you how difficult these things are to conceptualise,
These things are the foundations of our physical universe. We're talking about a God-like ability to manipulate the universe that's at the very fringes of hard sci-fi writing.
Warhammer 40000 is- basically- Lord Of The Rings on a cocktail of every drug known to man and genuine lunar dust, stuck in a blender with Alien, Mechwarrior, Dune, Starship Troopers, Fahrenheit 451 and Star Wars, bathed in blood, turned up to eleventy billion, set on fire, and catapulted off into space screaming "WAAAGH!" and waving a chainsaw sword- without the happy ending.
demoncase, I read that the older term that some still use for the ultimate subatomic particles are partons, and these are at the Planck length, measured to be around 10^-35 of a Meter or so. With molecules being in the 10^-9-10 range and protons and neutrons being around the 10^-13-15 meter range, that is very small indeed. That is supposedly the size of the quantum vacuum virtual particles.
And here is another question for you: Let's say a BORG cube or fleet of Borg Cubes from the Star Trek universe was transported to the War Hammer universe. How would the Imperium handle an all out fight with them? Who would defeat who? Would the Borg successfully assimilate the Imperium or would Imperium troops kick Borg Collective rear end?
And here is another question for you: Let's say a BORG cube or fleet of Borg Cubes from the Star Trek universe was transported to the War Hammer universe. How would the Imperium handle an all out fight with them? Who would defeat who? Would the Borg successfully assimilate the Imperium or would Imperium troops kick Borg Collective rear end?
The Imperium Of Man already defeated the "Men Of Iron" 20,000 years ago in the Age Of Strife- they were a collectivised 'AI' hive-mind.
Considering that the Federation fragged the Borg- and the Federation are hippy peaceniks- then the Imperium (who think nothing of vapourising an entire world because 1 person on it might have seen something they don't like) would have a trying afternoon dealing with the Borg.
That said, there's a mechanical race in the 40k universe called the Necrons. They make the Borg look pretty benign.
Warhammer 40000 is- basically- Lord Of The Rings on a cocktail of every drug known to man and genuine lunar dust, stuck in a blender with Alien, Mechwarrior, Dune, Starship Troopers, Fahrenheit 451 and Star Wars, bathed in blood, turned up to eleventy billion, set on fire, and catapulted off into space screaming "WAAAGH!" and waving a chainsaw sword- without the happy ending.
