Timeline for Are "Midas" swords useless for warfare?
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| Aug 2, 2018 at 8:16 | history | edited | Klaws | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 15:55 | comment | added | komodosp | Free kinetic energy? What about conservation of momentum? The projectile would just slow by the same factor as the mass increase... For the free potential energy you'd have to work out a way of killing the projectile at (or close to) the top of its arc... | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 15:38 | history | edited | Klaws | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
How to really piss off your enemies with radioactivity... ;-)
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 15:20 | history | edited | Klaws | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 13:37 | comment | added | Klaws | @FooBar There would still be free energy involved, namely potential energy. My reasoning is that when you can get one kind of free energy, you can also get another kind. And taking into account the theories of relativity, kinetic energy and potential energy are not really different things. On the other hand, I am not aware that Einstein did mention anything on how his theories fit together with spontaneous transmutation (or quantum physics). | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 12:43 | comment | added | Madlozoz | Except that acceleration would kill the "projectile" before he leaves the sling. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:13 | comment | added | FooTheBar | Or the corpse keeps his kinetic energy and falls on your own troops in front of the trebuchet. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 8:57 | history | answered | Klaws | CC BY-SA 4.0 |