Interesting take. It makes enough in-universe sense.One thing i couldn't help but notice after Phoebe drips the part of her pack in Brass is she walks down to confront Melody powers on her pack it then fires up normally like any other time yet there is no new sounds or sparks. Then a few min later she walks up and then when she fires it up the pack goes crazy with sparks.I don't know. In my head canon that pack is possessed by supernatural forces or something. For me there should be nothing physically spinning inside the pack (real cyclotrons also have no mechanically spinning parts at all).
did the blast from the containment unit knock the cover off??
Also if you just look at the inside of any cyclotron cover you will see that the inside of the 4 round holes are covered up by the CRT emitters. You wouldn't be able to see -into- the cyclotron anyway. It's obvious if you just hold the Haslab cyclotron cover in your hands and look at it. The 4 holes don't actually show the inside, they are covered by the CRT emitter bases.
In my head canon the 4 red lights on the outside of the cyclotron indicate the correct functioning of the 4 quadrants of the solenoid ring electromagnets that accelerate the particles. Like a visual representation that -everything is working ok-. That's why the direction doesn't matter, clockwise or counterclockwise. That's simply down to the order in which each individual CRT emitter happened to be connected.
In Afterlife (and FE) we see that the 4 red lights have streaks of movement in them. In my head canon this is just a more higher fidelity representation of what's going inside, kind of simulating what the particles would be doing.
That's what the CRT emitters are for (in my head canon), they emit cathode rays to give a visual representation of each quadrant of the cyclotron working order. Like a safety light.
In Frozen Empire, the whole cyclotron spinning on the brass coated pack has got to be posessed or a supernatural thing or something. Cyclotrons don't mechanically spin, or else they'd need to be spinning at 3/4ths the speed of light.
I think the cyclotron cover wasn't put on because the parts were too hot having been freshly dipped into melted brass. Air needed to get to the parts to cool them off. But the unit exploded and Phoebe had to rush downstairs. Why she went straight to the basement instead of helping her family and friends right away is perplexing. Either this was an editing issue, or more evidence of sub-par writing.
Statistics: Posted by JonXCTrack — April 12th, 2024, 9:39 am