Howdy Rupert,

Can you please provide the source that indicated there is a bubble of hydrogen around the hull?

Tom Rux

> On 06/18/2020 9:59 PM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 19Jun2020 1606, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> > Even in MT, they are mentioned in text and on a table, but there's no
> > detail of whether fuel goes into the main fuel tank (and the main fuel
> > tank feeds the jump drive)... or for that matter how the Jump Drive
> > consumes the fuel - all at once? in a metered way? How long does that
> > take?
> As far as I'm concerned, it's 'all at once', or nearly so. We know jump
> tanks work. We also know that there's no requirement to have any extra
> tankage on board, and that the jump drive's volume is very small
> compared to the fuel used (so it can't be stored there). So it's all
> used in some way in that short time between jump initiation and actual
> jump. IMTU some is used in a really inefficient fusion process to power
> the system, more is used as coolant, and most goes into creating a 'jump
> bubble' for the ship to sit in during jump.
>
> On jump exit the burst of hot hydrogen from the bubble bursting back
> into normal space-time is one of the signatures of a jump emergence (the
> other main one is the sudden gravity wave from a massive object suddenly
> coming into existence where there was nothing before). Analysis of how
> much hydrogen there is and how hot it is can give insight into the size
> of the ship and how far it came (especially if you've also got data of
> the gravity spike).
>
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