User:Ghelæ/Tech

Remember: Motivations. I've made and deleted pages like this before.
 * Providing a general list of things that pretty much every spacefaring civilisation ought to have some grasp of
 * Going into a bit more detail about the tech tree
 * Describing particular fictional technologies whose names keep on coming up in the fictionverse, e.g. phasers, disruptors, turbolasers

Applications
Describe major uses of technology, in particular:
 * Power
 * Propulsion
 * Protection
 * Weapons
 * Computing

Classical material
Basic tech - this goes first because it's the start of any tech tree
 * Deformation (and acoustics)
 * Polarisation (and optics)
 * Information

Quantum material
More advanced materials science
 * Condensed-matter physics
 * Quantum optics

Chemical
EM bound states
 * Chemistry
 * Biology
 * Materials science
 * Plasma

Nuclear
QCD bound states
 * Decay
 * Fission
 * Fusion
 * Quark-Gluon Plasma

Celestial

 * Geoengineering
 * Astroengineering

Particle

 * Starts with particle accelerators

Fictional
''Technologies based on fictional physics; probably either
 * Real-world hypothesised physics
 * Just in the fictionverse
 * Analysing why some things are only possible in fiction