I was re-reading a book (WarWorld: The Fall Of Sauron) today and the
Saurons deployed what could only be described as a system sized meson
gun.  There were two particle accelerator arrays on airless worlds (it
is implied that there were hundreds/thousands of tens of km long
accelerators) that fired neutral particles at a fixed point in space
where when the particles collided mesons were formed.  This sounds
similar to the description of meson guns (TTA and other sources) and I
was wondering if anything like this would be possible.  I seem to
remember the "Lab Ship From Hell" that was posted almost (or more) than
20 years ago that had a several km long accelerator tunnel that fired a
PA beam several AU, so at least it appears this is possible.

Thoughts?

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