What is the red matter (spoiler)
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The red matter is matter that is neither green nor blue.
Also known as "rabbit's foot".
I actually dig the red matter. There is a real-life counterpart, quark matter. Since quarks have color charge, (red, green or blue) it's surprisingly fitting. Yeah, probably it's mostly random coincidence, but it's pretty cool. 
Just like the transwarp transporter. lol
It was an artefact from the Delta Quadrant. They took just over a dozen Omega Molecules and condensed them into a stable structure that could be used as a handy plot device to do anything the user desires.
Some call it "Omega 13".
Some call it "Omega 13".
And to further that, wouldn't that massive amount have caused an extremely large black hole or something, much bigger than even what we saw?
Maybe it doesn't scale and after you reach a certain point (a gram or so of it), it has serious diminishing returns to the point of not more than doubling the effects no matter how much you add. It could also be more stable in larger quantities?
It is still dumb, but far from the biggest issue.
It is still dumb, but far from the biggest issue.
I think Red Matter could be a particle that decays into inflatons - the particles associated with the field that created inflation in the early universe. Or they could be some kind of "reverse-inflatons" that caused a contractions of spacetime (hense, singularities).
One peculiar aspect is that it warps spacetime more than they should. Since it creates a wormhole, it could create a large gravitational field in one end and a large "anti-gravitational field" at the other end. So the net effect is zero. Or it might open up a wormhole near large gravitational sources (Nero came out near a star IIRC) - the gravity leas through the red-matter wormholes.
Lots of possibilities... What if it was that "exotic matter" which could be used to create "real" warp drives? I doubt it was dark matter - it doesn't work that way.
One peculiar aspect is that it warps spacetime more than they should. Since it creates a wormhole, it could create a large gravitational field in one end and a large "anti-gravitational field" at the other end. So the net effect is zero. Or it might open up a wormhole near large gravitational sources (Nero came out near a star IIRC) - the gravity leas through the red-matter wormholes.
Lots of possibilities... What if it was that "exotic matter" which could be used to create "real" warp drives? I doubt it was dark matter - it doesn't work that way.
I think it might be more stable as a big ball than little drops.
Was I the only one who when saw the red matter for the first time was taken back to the big red gravitational ball, created by the Rambaldi device in JJ Abrams Alias?
Bingo! I got a definite ALIAS vibe from that.
Which is cool. I was a big ALIAS fan.
The writers take on Omega 13.
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