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Week 4 Reading Response

I have another interesting topic for today. So just a fair warning, this one is going to get very technical because of the level of technology that I am going to explain. So far in The Last World War, two alien races are dueling it out with futuristic technology. One of these marvelous features of engineering is the shock wave guns that one of the alien races use.

The basic idea is actually very simple. A wave is something that oscillates parallel to the direction of the transfer of energy that is happening. The premise of these weapons is to make a wave so strong, that is tears other things into tiny bits in pieces because of the amount of strength in the wave. And actually, creating waves this strong isn't very hard. Explosive shock waves are the very reasons why explosions are used by various military groups. The problem is shooting the wave in a precise direction, and harnessing that much power in a small form factor. Those are the two details that the author chooses to leave out, and this is because scientists still haven't figured out how to solve these problems.

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  1. Robert X.September 13, 2017 at 6:07 AM

    This sounds like an interesting topic that more research could be conducted on. I might have to consider read this book after all of your response too! Keep it up!

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  2. Ethan WSeptember 13, 2017 at 9:14 PM

    I normally would not go for a book like this but you made this seem very interesting! Great response.

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