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Posted by: prometheus25
The Forerunner were able to manipulate matter on the grandest scales. In Cryptum, it was said that the best builders could bring asteroids together and build planets or even create stars from nebulae.
Of course, this would all take a very long time.
The material was taken from planets, strip mined and used for resources.
Posted by: TIM427
I say that they followed the principle of e=mc^2. In other words with enough energy you can "create" mass. The opposite of this is observable in the A-bomb.
Also, this is very very wrong. Matter does not turn into energy in a nuclear detonation (and honestly, e=mc^2 isn't the real equation, and is actually a simplification of the true equation Einstein developed).
The energy in a nuclear detonation comes from the strong nuclear force that is broken when U235 is splt, releasing massive amounts of energy.
Yes, but he was talking about nuclear fusion, whereas you're talking about fission. In nuclear fusion, highly energetic nuclei collide, and some of their kinetic energy is used in binding them together. The mass of the reaction product is always different than the combined mass of the particles that went in. The difference in mass is due to nuclear binding energy, which originally came from the kinetic energy of the particles. Hence, energy is converted into mass.
Still, I think it'd be easier to just mine asteroids and planets than to make all the material for the Halos from hydrogen. The stars already do the fusion for free, you just have to go out and get it.
[Edited on 08.19.2011 9:35 AM PDT]