Timeline for What would be the ideal melee weapon made of "Phase Metal"?
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| Jul 12, 2019 at 22:04 | comment | added | Willk | @vsz - is that because a skin tight layer of armor would transmit the force right to you? What would "phase metal" do? | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 20:23 | comment | added | Yakk | You might want to look into neutonian penetration. The phase-armor would have to be pretty dense in order to prevent your flesh from taking much damage, which in turn makes it really, really hard to move. Even arrows. An arrow (density 1) will penetrate your flesh (density 1)+metal (density 8 if iron) a depth of 1/9th the arrow's length (assuming arrow doesn't shatter). | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 14:37 | comment | added | vsz | Nope, this won't work. Metal armor was always worn over a very thick layer of wool clothing or other soft material. If it was skin-tight it wouldn't help much in softening the blows which hit you. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 17:58 | comment | added | tuskiomi | -1 purely because the question is asking about weapons, and there's no way to keep the armor kinematically on top of your skin. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | Matthew | I think jeffB has the right idea... build a regular suit of plate armor (if you use titanium, it can even be bullet-proof against light arms), then reinforce the heck out of the thing internally with phase metal, making it crush-proof. As a bonus, the reinforcement is virtually invisible when the armor is being worn. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 16:52 | comment | added | jeffB | Winner, winner! You could build an endo-exoskeleton -- reinforce every bone and joint with metal. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 16:42 | comment | added | Caleb Brinkman | If the phase metal is magnetic (or can be made magnetic) the internal suit wouldn't even need permanent external attachment points; just put some neodymium magnets at key places in the body suit's lining. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 16:40 | comment | added | Caleb Brinkman | I'm imagining a sort of internal lattice suit that the wearer just sort of... stands in/on/around with attachment points just outside the skin to affix it to a body suit. Maybe one made of a super-light ring mail that affixes to the attachment points? | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 14:11 | comment | added | jonatjano | you could even have an internal structure to prevent the armor from deforming itself when hit with a hammer | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 14:03 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | This is pretty genius. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 3:45 | history | edited | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2019 at 3:39 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |