On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:38:04PM -0400, jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:

"Leia Fee" leiafee@totalise.co.uk wrote:

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So how did 'they' get the bit of neutron star in the first place (I presume it was not Egrorian)?

Egrorian says (when Avon asks him) that netrons are used in the tachyon funnel. Maybe he had some left over when he was finished builind it? ;-)

Leia

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From what I know of astronomy it is 'slightly difficult' to get away from a neutron star.

But it was "neutron star material"... it doesn't actually have to have *come* from a neutron star. It's basically super-dense matter. If Egrorian had found some way to synthesize it, say, with a particle accelerator or by the careful application of artificial gravity beams (they've gotta have artificial gravity in B7...) then he wouldn't need to take his neutron star material from an actual neutron star...

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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:

"Leia Fee" leiafee@totalise.co.uk wrote:

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So how did 'they' get the bit of neutron star in the first place (I presume it was not Egrorian)?

Egrorian says (when Avon asks him) that netrons are used in the tachyon funnel. Maybe he had some left over when he was finished builind it? ;-)

Leia

From what I know of astronomy it is 'slightly difficult' to get away from a neutron star.

I'd always assumed that Egrorian had manufactured some neutronium (the ultradense matter of which neutron stars are mostly composed), rather than going all the way to a neutron star to get it. After all, if you can contain neutronium it is trivially easy to manufacture it.

Iain