![]() ![]() ![]() You have a collection of loose atoms, it’s largely irrelevant whether they’re solid or a dense cloud of ions, stripped of their electrons by the fields that accelerated them. This starts to violate normal ‘slow bullet’ physics at even human-achievable rail gun speeds (aka single or low double-digit mach numbers).Īt 40% of the speed of light, chemical bonds are basically irrelevant. Anything in front of it would have to be given more acceleration to be pushed out of the way, and the projectile itself is under much more stress despite it’s smaller size. It assumes things like, for instance, the bullet will remain largely intact if it hits something much softer than it, or that it’s physically possible for the intervening matter to be pushed out of the way.Īt high speeds, that doesn’t happen, because the forces involved scale exponentially with speed. ![]() The main problem is that you’re using a simplified calculation intended only for your typical metal bullets travelling within a order of magnitude of the speed of sound. Bit late here, but you are off a fair bit, yeah. ![]()
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