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by Xardion
Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:43 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Manipulation of the fields to increase the collision rate?
Replies: 12
Views: 12515

I'm not sure if there's a misunderstanding here about the POPS effect, but POPS doesn't apply RF to the electric field directly. It uses an RF fluctuation at the POPS resonance frequency applied at an amplitude proportional to the voltage of the grid. I.E. a +/-4V amplitude change applied at POPS fr...
by Xardion
Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Star Trek movie and fusion
Replies: 17
Views: 9312

If you want to know what technical ideas the shows' developers were basing the technology on, I highly recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Generat ... 0671704273

It goes very in-depth into the 'science' behind the fiction.