Timeline for answer to Can spacecraft defend against antimatter weapons? How? by John
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 21:16 | comment | added | John | Whipple shields are basically explosion shields, which is what antimatter weapon is going to create. Bonus it works even better against micrometeorites. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 21:09 | comment | added | John | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield whipple sheilds are layered ablative armor, they work because the more energetic the explosion the more debris, (in this case antimatter) is thrown away from the target. better yet a whipple shield could be fairly easily charged to increase deflection. | |
| Nov 12, 2016 at 18:48 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | This is virtually the same as my answer. You might want to flesh out the part about Whipple shields. | |
| Nov 12, 2016 at 7:04 | comment | added | spectras | @TonyEnnis> it's not light-speed. Or it's not anti-matter. Your pick. Granted, it's still fast enough that throwing anything heavier than particles seems unreasonable. | |
| Nov 12, 2016 at 5:02 | comment | added | user2013 | You have to first detect the beam before you can launch trash at it. But you detect it when it punches a hole in the ship. The beam is a light-speed weapon. | |
| Nov 12, 2016 at 3:00 | comment | added | Zxyrra | While venting matter at a missile of antimatter would destroy it, this question is asking about beams moving at near light speed, so venting likely is not an option | |
| Nov 12, 2016 at 2:10 | history | answered | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |