Post by halinder on Mar 19, 2018 10:28:46 GMT -5
A BRIEF HISTORY
Never to be satisfied by new and unique technology, scientists in the State have been looking into alternatives to their carbon nanotube and plastic wonder materials for some few decades now. At first, they were content to simply build new and better versions of the old. In the early days of its inception, Strong Nuclear Force Architecture Theory was considered outlandish and implausible. Doctor Matridis Lerk, the earliest proponent of SNFA Theory, was largely ignored but has remained with the project for his whole life; only recently has the scientific community begun to take his idea seriously, what with the discovery of a black hole that might provide the State with a great deal more energy.
THE BASICS
Strong Nuclear Force Architecture Theory suggests that quarks can be used as a basis for developing sub-atomic structures which would be lightweight and support an unimaginable tensile strength. It relies on the assumption that quarks can be artificially organized in a controlled setting, something that no one in the Akkalah Unitary State nor anywhere else in the entire Milky Way Galaxy has yet managed to do.
HYPOTHESES
Different scientists exploring SNFA Theory have come up with several ideas organized into milestones which the AUS must supposedly complete before it can make use of subatomic structures.
The earliest hypothesis by Doctor Lerk involved trying to capture quarks in the moments before they formed hadrons, freezing that state of attraction to link them together. He believed that if a superstructure was able to generate a consistent flow of sub-microscopic quark-gluon plasma that continuously broke up quarks before they could bond, then the quarks would forever remain locked in place binding the structure together. Lerk's Theory, also known informally as the Teaser Theory, receives ridicule for the amount of power needed to even generate quark-gluon plasma on that scale, not to mention that the State had no atomic materials capable of holding quark-gluon plasma so close to a structure.
Moving on from Doctor Lerk, Doctor Imadia Louche is a recent addition to SNFA Theory and a welcome departure from Lerk's babble. Whereas Lerk's eccentricity attracts attention to this line of work, Louche's efforts set clear goals for the scientific community to meet eventually, and recognizes that none of the milestones are likely to be achieved for a very long time. Louche's Theory centers around the following:
1. The scientific community must observe free quarks. It does not matter if this occurs naturally out in the universe or inside a laboratory.
a. Normally, quarks bind either according to their color states or with antiquarks.
b. Free quarks would, Louche theorizes, remain isolated and actively repel other quarks.
2. The scientific community must develop a method to contain or deflect quarks.
a. This is necessary for any subatomic structure to be a closed system, so that parts of the structure are not regularly ejecting themselves or moving into places where they should not be.
b. Louche suggested that using free quarks as boundaries to contain naturally-occurring quarks could work, but there would need to be a method to filter in only certain kinds of quarks.
3. The scientific community must consistently harvest or 'jailbreak' quarks.
a. For any of this to be worth it, subatomic materials must be harvestable in quantities that can be used to make superstructures.
Never to be satisfied by new and unique technology, scientists in the State have been looking into alternatives to their carbon nanotube and plastic wonder materials for some few decades now. At first, they were content to simply build new and better versions of the old. In the early days of its inception, Strong Nuclear Force Architecture Theory was considered outlandish and implausible. Doctor Matridis Lerk, the earliest proponent of SNFA Theory, was largely ignored but has remained with the project for his whole life; only recently has the scientific community begun to take his idea seriously, what with the discovery of a black hole that might provide the State with a great deal more energy.
THE BASICS
Strong Nuclear Force Architecture Theory suggests that quarks can be used as a basis for developing sub-atomic structures which would be lightweight and support an unimaginable tensile strength. It relies on the assumption that quarks can be artificially organized in a controlled setting, something that no one in the Akkalah Unitary State nor anywhere else in the entire Milky Way Galaxy has yet managed to do.
HYPOTHESES
Different scientists exploring SNFA Theory have come up with several ideas organized into milestones which the AUS must supposedly complete before it can make use of subatomic structures.
The earliest hypothesis by Doctor Lerk involved trying to capture quarks in the moments before they formed hadrons, freezing that state of attraction to link them together. He believed that if a superstructure was able to generate a consistent flow of sub-microscopic quark-gluon plasma that continuously broke up quarks before they could bond, then the quarks would forever remain locked in place binding the structure together. Lerk's Theory, also known informally as the Teaser Theory, receives ridicule for the amount of power needed to even generate quark-gluon plasma on that scale, not to mention that the State had no atomic materials capable of holding quark-gluon plasma so close to a structure.
Moving on from Doctor Lerk, Doctor Imadia Louche is a recent addition to SNFA Theory and a welcome departure from Lerk's babble. Whereas Lerk's eccentricity attracts attention to this line of work, Louche's efforts set clear goals for the scientific community to meet eventually, and recognizes that none of the milestones are likely to be achieved for a very long time. Louche's Theory centers around the following:
1. The scientific community must observe free quarks. It does not matter if this occurs naturally out in the universe or inside a laboratory.
a. Normally, quarks bind either according to their color states or with antiquarks.
b. Free quarks would, Louche theorizes, remain isolated and actively repel other quarks.
2. The scientific community must develop a method to contain or deflect quarks.
a. This is necessary for any subatomic structure to be a closed system, so that parts of the structure are not regularly ejecting themselves or moving into places where they should not be.
b. Louche suggested that using free quarks as boundaries to contain naturally-occurring quarks could work, but there would need to be a method to filter in only certain kinds of quarks.
3. The scientific community must consistently harvest or 'jailbreak' quarks.
a. For any of this to be worth it, subatomic materials must be harvestable in quantities that can be used to make superstructures.