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Matter cannon
Matter cannon is a physics concept used as a weapon in Stephen R. Donaldson's Sci-fi series, The Gap Cycle. The actual implementation and use as a weapon is completely fictional; however, the underlying theory and operational details are realistic. In essence, the weapon is described in terms of a set of viable concepts that have not been properly assembled to explain how or if the weapon could work in the real world.
== Method of operation ==
Donaldson describes the concept of matter cannon primarily in terms of chaos theory; in particular, he describes matter as organized or frozen energy, likening matter to order as organized or frozen chaos and likewise chaos as a fluid state of order. Based on the theory that any form of order can be created from any form of chaos, he explains that there must therefore be a manner to arrange a form of chaos which naturally falls into a predetermined form of order under certain conditions.〔Donaldson, Stephen R. ''The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order''. Ancillary Documentation: Matter Cannon.〕
Based on this assumption, the possibility to create organized forms of energy which collapse into matter under the correct conditions must also exist. Matter cannon uses a controlled beam of light-constant energy which collapses when encountering physical matter, producing either pairs of protons and electrons or neutrons. Effectively, neutrons or pairs of ionized hydrogen and free electrons are created temporarily traveling at the speed of light for just a few picoseconds by the collapse of a beam of quarks and energy traveling at the speed of light. If the proper conditions are not met, the beam simply disperses; matter cannon fire has a limited effective range.
Due to charge conservation, it would be impossible for matter cannon to produce either individual protons or electrons; only neutrons or proton-electron pairs could come into existence by any means.
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