I was just wondering... If it doesn't exist, could it be made in a laboratory?
2007-01-03 03:13:52 · 14 answers · asked by Michael n 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Check out the wikipedia and Star Trek wiki articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilithium_%28disambiguation%29
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Dilithium
While the name is bogus, the sci-fi concept seems to be heading towards science fact, as it often does. Stephen Hawking seems to think anti-matter power is the interstellar way to go.
2007-01-03 03:25:57 · answer #1 · answered by brainiac5 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dilithium Crystals
2016-11-02 09:34:28 · answer #2 · answered by felio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you could retrieve that 1% of Lithium vapor that is actually Dilithium (two Lithium atoms systolically fused together) and supercool the lot of them into a crystal, then you'd have some SERIOUS bragging rights. But the odds of finding Dilithium crystals such as those in Elaan of Troyius's necklace (TOS episode 3x02) are pretty darn slim.
2016-09-09 17:38:13 · answer #3 · answered by SRB101 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, at least not yet. Dilithium crystals as a power source *are* fiction.
I've always found it fascinating how sci-fi trickles down into reality. Who in the 1800's would have thought that H.G. Wells' fantastic journeys to the Moon and in the 1930's that E.R. Burroughs' travels to Mars would become reality?
Think of all the material benefits the space program has given to our society, even if people are not yet living off Earth.
Maybe we won't have dilithium crystals to power spaceships and cities, but there will be other creative solutions inspired by science fiction.
2007-01-03 03:31:39 · answer #4 · answered by Mmerobin 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dilithium is two lithium atoms bonded together. Yes, dilithium exists. I would assume that a dilithium crystal would be a lot of said atoms bonded together, enough to take on a form.
Sorry, I spocked out. I do this a lot.
Live long and prosper and let logic guide you in life.
2013-11-20 02:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Dilithium crystals are the byproduct of systolic fusion.
2007-01-03 05:45:23 · answer #6 · answered by amorgan4osu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, Dilithium is the only substance that will not react with anti-matter and it is not a power source, it is used to focus the matter anti-matter streams that are sent to each warp nacelle to create the warp bubble that makes warp drive possible.
2016-06-07 02:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by Ronald 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's a Star Trek invention. For one, dilithium is a chemical impossibility. Nor would it generate energy.
2007-01-03 03:16:59 · answer #8 · answered by texascrazyhorse 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like sci-fi to me.
2007-01-03 03:15:50 · answer #9 · answered by MINKWOMAN 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes but you can only get them on Relva-4.
2007-01-03 03:23:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋