SWM wrote:You asked in another thread what physics had to do with anything. You clearly do not understand. You ignore both real physics and the physics of the "new" technology David Weber introduced for the Honorverse. You simply cannot blather any old idea that comes into your head, without paying attention to the rules of Weber's Honorverse, and expect to be taken seriously.
* A picowatt is an extremely tiny amount of power
* There is no such thing as a paser
* There is no such thing as a partial alpha band
* Sails only draw power from grav waves, not from normal hyperspace
* David specifically eliminated the concept of a massively powerful spinal-mount beam weapon in http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... ngton/77/1
* According to the text and the Pearls (which you obviously still haven't read), what you get when you turn the power of the impellers into a beam is a grav lance; unfortunately, a grav lance won't cut through anything--all it can do is overload certain forms of gravitic technology, such as sidewalls, but not an impeller wedge.
You clearly do not actually care to understand the universe that David Weber has created. You ignore the Pearls, even when they specifically talk about the concept you propose. You propose concepts which contradict the text and infodumps. If you simply want to blather nonsense, I can suggest a number of forums and websites. There is no point in discussing anything about the Honorverse with you as long as you continue to blatantly ignore basic concepts which we have pointed you to repeatedly. All you are doing is wasting our time, and I refuse to waste any more of it on you.
Ahem, I hate to actually disagree with anything you said, but... Paser actually does exist. It operates on similar principles as a laser, but it's still in the experimental stages from what I've read thus far. Nor did I understand it very well, mostly just skimmed over it.
http://www.cern.ch/accelconf/e96/PAPERS ... EP129G.PDF
Still, you summed up what my thoughts are with the rest of your post. And I've been here, what, a couple of weeks posting? The exasperation is just building and growing.