Thoughts on Alien weapons' technology in Crysis

[sunapi386]

The http://crysis.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons#Aliens" - are they theoretically possible?

The weapon "Molecular Arrestor" is basically a freeze ray, is this thermodynamically possible? Freezing something would require removing energy - how something have its energy removed that rapidly makes it intriguing.

 

[Vanadium 50]

This is fiction.

 

[sunapi386]

This is fiction.

Creating a wormhole is also fiction - but theoretically possible.

 

[JaredJames]

Creating a wormhole is also fiction - but theoretically possible.

Don't confuse two separate issues.

Wormholes are theorized and the fiction came from that.

Your 'weapons' are fiction and you are asking if we can come up with theory to support them.

 

[Drakkith]

Look at it this way. We can currently put particles in a chamber and cool them to extremely low temperatures using magnetic fields, lasers, and liquid helium. The step up from that to your freeze ray is a huge chasm. Is it "possible"? I would say only if this weapon could use similar concepts but at a distance somehow. The amount of problems you would have to solve are many. Knowing how and when to apply the exact frequency of laser to each particle, removing energy faster than it is generated, getting the em fields exactly right, all of these are so far from workable currently that it might as well be impossible.

 

[Antiphon]

Ironically for this thread, a wormhole could produce the freeze effect. You momentarily connect the target to a really cold place via wormhole and- voila.

 

[John37309]

I see no reason why you could not build a "flame thrower" type device that pumps out liquid helium instead of a flame. That might freeze your victim if he is caught i the spray. It wouldn't be a beam, it might be more like a fire hydrant type thing, except for freezing victims.

John.

 

[sunapi386]

build a "flame thrower" type device that pumps out liquid helium instead of a flame

I guess it's possible; but the weapon supposedly freezes things near instantaneous, which might be a problem with helium because of its low heat capacity. Things like us humans have mostly water composition, so that might take a while!

momentarily connect the target to a really cold place via wormhole and- voila.

If they had that technology, it might be easier to teleport things away from the battlefield into some other place - like a star/space/blackhole, and never worry about it again.
Maybe these things can manipulate negative energy? Why wouldn't aliens (in games) use nuclear weapons - that seems simple and effective.

 

[Antiphon]

Maybe these things can manipulate negative energy? Why wouldn't aliens (in games) use nuclear weapons - that seems simple and effective.

It's a dramatic letdown in a story when the advanced species' best weapon is one that the primitives themselves invented 66 years ago.

Aliens using nukes is like the X-men using explosive charges.

 

[DaveC426913]

Why wouldn't aliens (in games) use nuclear weapons...

Because it's a game.

Playable first. Plausible hardly factors into it.

If you like your adventures plausible, forget the joystick and pick up a book instead.

 

[sunapi386]

Aliens using nukes is like the X-men using explosive charges.

Hmm. That is absolutely logical!

If you like your adventures plausible, forget the joystick and pick up a book instead.

Agreed. Any good futuristic sci-fi book suggestions?
Also Mass Effect was believable game, better in comparison.

 

[DaveC426913]

Agreed. Any good futuristic sci-fi book suggestions?

Well, what's your preference? War?

Joe Haldeman's The Forever War is a classic.

Soldiers do their tours of duty over ten or twenty years but, due to relativistic time dilation, they must do so in the context of a thousand years of technological advancement and cultural evolution of humankiind.