I wonder how conductive mithril, electrium, and adamantium metals are, and if considered superconducting?
Electrum is an alloy of gold and silver and, like its components, would be an excellent conductor, but not a superconductor. The other two don't correspond to any known material (some people have suggested that mithril would be aluminum or titanium), but there's no evidence in game mechanics that they have any particularly unusual electrical properties.
I wonder how conductive mithril, electrium, and adamantium metals are, and if considered superconducting?
Electrum is an alloy of gold and silver and, like its components, would be an excellent conductor, but not a superconductor. The other two don't correspond to any known material (some people have suggested that mithril would be aluminum or titanium), but there's no evidence in game mechanics that they have any particularly unusual electrical properties.
Actually Mithril corresponds quite well with titanium and admantite corresponds fairly well with tungsten. Both would be conductive but not to the extent gold and silver are and neither would be superconducting.
A flux capacitor uses superconductors, it doesn’t turn other materials into them. Its job (fictional) was to reverse time’s arrow so you could move backward in time. Had nothing to do really with conductance of electricity for weapons.
That's only one application of the Flux Capacitor. Through it's cold fusion derived flux, it can also allow a greater measure of electricity actually to be stored within the process of conduction, thereby making the mundane metals de facto super conductors. This is probably what the Libyans wanted Doc to do with the Flux Capacitor, use it as an integral component to a man portable fusion powered, antimatter weapon.
You can get a magnetic rifle that... has worse performance than a conventional rifle. The only man portable energy weapon that's actually worth carrying around at current tech is a taser.
It's credible. It works, it's man portable, it's a real thing in the real world.
Is it a great weapon? Hell no, it's worse that a regular gunpowder rifle. But it's a billion times closer to successful weaponization than any other energy weapon.
Perhaps not .. fully a billion times.
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Like a bomb pumped laser.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Which didn't work out so well when someone tried to build one.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I thought we were still on the subject of science fiction =)
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
I thought we were still talking about how practical science fiction weapons were in real life =)
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I wonder how conductive mithril, electrium, and adamantium metals are, and if considered superconducting?
Electrum is an alloy of gold and silver and, like its components, would be an excellent conductor, but not a superconductor. The other two don't correspond to any known material (some people have suggested that mithril would be aluminum or titanium), but there's no evidence in game mechanics that they have any particularly unusual electrical properties.
Well, electrum is just a gold-silver alloy (sometimes with traces of other elements) so its conductivity is going to be based on the ratio of the two.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Actually Mithril corresponds quite well with titanium and admantite corresponds fairly well with tungsten. Both would be conductive but not to the extent gold and silver are and neither would be superconducting.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.
A flux capacitor can turn any material into a superconductor some of the time.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
A flux capacitor uses superconductors, it doesn’t turn other materials into them. Its job (fictional) was to reverse time’s arrow so you could move backward in time. Had nothing to do really with conductance of electricity for weapons.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.
That's only one application of the Flux Capacitor. Through it's cold fusion derived flux, it can also allow a greater measure of electricity actually to be stored within the process of conduction, thereby making the mundane metals de facto super conductors. This is probably what the Libyans wanted Doc to do with the Flux Capacitor, use it as an integral component to a man portable fusion powered, antimatter weapon.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
It's credible. It works, it's man portable, it's a real thing in the real world.
Is it a great weapon? Hell no, it's worse that a regular gunpowder rifle. But it's a billion times closer to successful weaponization than any other energy weapon.
Perhaps not .. fully a billion times.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.