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Not if you're holding onto it using a magnetic field, or any other method that doesn't involve direct contact.
by kijinbear 15y ago
Not if you're holding onto it using a magnetic field, or any other method that doesn't involve direct contact.
- Cushman 15y agoIs there any conceivable way to make such a system fail-safe?
- Fargren 15y agoNothing is fail-safe.
- Cushman 15y agoI think you misunderstand what the term means. For example, the control rods in some nuclear reactor designs are held up out of the core by electromagnets. Thus even in the event of complete power failure, the rods fall naturally, stopping the reaction. Since failure results in a safe state, this is referred to as a "fail-safe" system. By contrast, if you were holding a lump of antimatter contained by an electromagnetic field, a power failure would result is the antimatter escaping confinement and annihilating with your body, releasing an unimaginably large amount of energy nearly instantly. This is what you might call a "fail-deadly" system, because a failure results in a decidedly unsafe state.