Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> > Bill Pragnell wrote:
> >> although the basic premise for the gun is a real one, 
> > 
> > Sure. You try holding a weapon that fires something at relativistic speeds.

> I meant the railgun aspect - accelerating the projectile using 
> electromagnetics.

  Newton's third law still applies, even at relativistic accelerations.
If a force is applied to the projectile to make it accelerate at a certain
direction, another force will accelerate something else (ie. the gun)
at the opposite direction. I can't think of any way of avoiding that.

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                                                          - Warp

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