Love how your combacks are post a source and NAH UH!
The burden of proof falls on the person who has made a positive assumption. If this wasn't the case, then I could claim any number of things, varying in degrees of plausibility, and according to you it would be
your job to prove that it
isn't true. For instance:
I am the king of the sovereign nation of Luna. I have a super-mega-ultrafortress, but you can't see it because it's on the dark side of the moon and is also cloaked.
Prove me wrong.
Element Zero or neutronium:
Was about to put it all together but wiki already did it for me.
No go, the only connection to "Neutronium" (a substance made of neutrons) is that neutronium has an atomic number 0, if such a thing were to exist. You would assume that Element Zero would also have said atomic number, if it exists, by it's name, although that's not a certainty. That said, this doesn't give you any useful information because there are many other factors in play.
Specifically, Eezo functions by running a current through it. The idea that you can run an electrical current through
neutronium is completely hilarious, since electrical currents are the exchange of electrons running through electrically non-neutral substances. Neutronium is electrically neutral by definition, since it's comprised solely of neutrons, which are electrically neutral. Eezo is some kind of exotic particle, Codex says it's what happens when matter is exposed to radiation from a star going supernova. It's most assuredly not neutronium.
Those are some must reads for quantum mechanincs really.
I'm not sure why you were bringing that up (didn't read the whole thread), but understand that the way it was used in Mass Effect is impossible, because QE can't be used for superluminal information transfer. Quantum Computers and the information passed around in their interior are all limited to lightspeed or slower, as is everything else.
Papers on the No-Communications Theorem should prove enlightening if you'd like to read them. The Wiki article has the formulations, but it's engaged in some kind of edit war between people with conflicts of interest, so trusting info on it implicitly is not advised.
Cool Rail Gun:
If you're trying to show that ME is "low tech" you're failing, because the Navy's railgun prototypes are all only good for one shot before needing their barrels repaired. The Dreadnought's firing things at .013 C is also far beyond the scope of any railgun ever made, and it being able to fire every 5 seconds represents a level of material science that blows the contemporary stuff out of the water.
Laser defence system:
Still in testing. "We currently use" in your previous posts was simply wrong. They are nowhere near being ready to be fielded actively.
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