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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:05:53 UTC No. 16099179
If you pass a super thin couple of atoms wide fiber through a material, will the material actually get cut? Don't atoms often shift around in solids as well? The disturbance caused by the fiber should be so minute that it essentially passes through and the material left intact.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:16:10 UTC No. 16099542
you can think of picrel magnet balls, it's like trying to separate them by passing a magnet ball string through it. the string charges holding it together have to be way way higher than the forces between the atoms you are trying to slice through.
also high changes the atoms would just snap back together after separating them with the "nanowire", or the nanowire just embeds into the structure.
basically you'd need some retarded high force holding your atom chain together. I also know jack shit about it and pulled that out of my ass so there's that
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:25:56 UTC No. 16099560
>>16099179
Are you thinking of something like the laser whip in vid related?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeO
In the book, it's only one molecule thick so it is able to slice through just about anything. You probably couldn't see it, just the results from it cutting but that doesn't work well for Hollywood so they made it look like a "laser whip". Same outcome for anything hit by it.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:29:32 UTC No. 16099571
>>16099560
Another scene with the mono-molecular line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv8
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:39:40 UTC No. 16099590
cold weld is a thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2n
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:02:02 UTC No. 16099805
>>16099179
>will the material actually get cut?
Perhaps, but the two halves would probably cold-weld themselves together again.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:03:45 UTC No. 16099806
>>16099560
>>16099571
He's thinking of the book (now tv series) The Three Body Problem in which a ship gets sliced like a bread loaf by nano wires strung across the panama canal (this was of course the most practical way to neutralize the personnel onboard lol)
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:12:41 UTC No. 16099825
>>16099806
The point is the personnel have inside alien intel on a flash drive that they'll wipe the moment anything happens and they're prepared for conventional stuff like gas.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:16:01 UTC No. 16099832
>>16099825
Sending in frogmen solid snake style to sneak up on people and strangle them would have been a lot more practical and realistic, but the author wanted to slice a ship into shreds because it would be cool (he was right.)