An anomaly question

[rodlox]

If you had no other options remaining, and you dropped a nuclear weapon near an open Anomaly...would the electromagnetic pulse from the detonation make the Anomaly go spherical? (closed)

thoughts?

Comments

[alyse]

One of the tie in novels (the one with Abby on the front) deals with EMP pulses (from a nuclear detonation). It's set in Russia, near Tunguska, and they use the EMP pulse to close the anomaly. So if you consider that canon, that's what it does.

[talliw]

But wouldn't it rather have the effect to tear the anomaly apart and increase the time rift instead of closing it? *scratches head*

[alyse]

If the anomalies are on the electromagnetic spectrum somehow - and the fact that they interfere with radios suggests that they are - then I don't see why an electromagnetic pulse would rip it apart? One of the things a nuclear detonation does is sent an electromagnetic pulse out that effectively overwhelms electrical equipment - burns it out. I suppose, in theory, it could 'short out' the anomaly in the same way and close it.

Of course, it's all pseudoscience ::g:: and they don't really get around to explaining how they work, but secondary canon (i.e. the official tie in novels) states explicitly that an EMP pulse closes the anomaly. So I suppose it's down to whether you take secondary canon as gospel or not. If you ignore it, then there's always the opportunity to come up with your own plausible explanation, but if you want to take it on board as being only one step from primary canon, it's a readily inbuilt explanation of what an EMP pulse does to an anomaly.