Weapons of Mass Destruction

Three Hundred Fifty Second Post: Weapons of Mass Destruction

Gene Roddenberry must have been the first person to use the concept of a self destruct system. The concept is ingenious. Now every science fiction show uses it. In Star Trek: First Contact, Captain Picard was reluctant to blow up the Enterprise. Kirk on the other hand would threaten to blow up the Enterprise every time there was a standoff with another alien.

Of course in one of my favorite original Star Trek episodes Kirk lied about having a weapon that could reflex any weapon used on the Enterprise and reflect and magnify the energy back to the enemy ship. “Not chess Spock, Poker”

But the technology behind Star Trek is researched. Those things could actually exist. One of my favorite technologies on the show was the shields. The Federation always had the worst shields. But within the shields in a mechanical properties and electrical theory. When the shield is hit, its protective force is based on the power and the shield harmonics. So if you hit the shield in the right area, the shield can be defeated.

I wish I new how to build such fields. But a start would be how to determine the power of an alternating current wave. I have posted on Constructor’s Corner a possible application for finding a chord. Knowing one chord length on the voltage sine wave makes it possible to find many of the properties of the entire graph. The same is true with the current. However finding the power proves to be a little tricky. And that’s were an interesting problem starts.

Maybe your describe electricity in the contest. But until then... May the Creative Force be with You