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Ross, shouldn't that be his prayers?

But by that same logic, a human receptor would be of less issue, and as it is grounded (well, it likely is) it will pose even less of an issue, making it more succeptible to the induced electrical charge. I think the human body, from arm to arm has a resistance of around 400MΩ, while according to you, glass has 1TΩ. Say the coil uses a power input of 100V, going through a step-up transformer to 10kV, into the capacitor and through the trigger mechanism (usually spark gap, to only activate at near-maximum charge), through a 5 turn primary coil (10kV/5n = 2) inducing into a secondary coil of 16,000 turns (which is around the standard for a small-mid sized tesla coil) (2*16,000n = 32MV), if we then assume the gun allows for that voltage over its entire range, then a human target would recieve a (32MV/400MΩ = 80mA) 80mA current, (80mA/0.04mA = 2,000) 2,000 times sufficient current to cause immediate heart failure. The trigger could be anything that can handle such a strong current as that which is sent through, most buttons will be welded closed, but it is possible to use parallell transistors to do the trick, as I tried with my coilgun (sadly I burned out the resistors heading to the base (trigger input) in a flash, though it did fire with no damage to the transistors so it proves my point). The base can be hooked up to an alternative powersource, so if it wasn't for the simple solution proposed by my teacher, it would've worked. "Hard" science (very simple electronics math), laymans terms and practical examples, convincing enough?

See the first direction he's pointing the lightbulb? Glass first, glass is an insulator, we're a conductor with high resistance. And tesla coils already work on high voltage, the only reason they don't break whatever they hit is because the pulses last less than 1/1000th of a second because they use spark gap triggers.

I'm not sure if you know, but electrostatics are monopolar, if you bring an object within the range of the coil it will be electrified, without the neccessity of any arcs of lighning, any other pole or even a ground. This vid shows how the top piece, distance, etc. matters and some of the effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u4BvaC1nkA

Goblins you say? Yewnock hates goblins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_field Imagine this, except with any weapon instead of the rod and a sufficiently low frequency so that the current does damage right away: And to my knowledge, it should be possible to use electromagnets to shape the electrical field.

It is more effective than meson and anti-proton weaponry because instead of piercing the armour, it creates a small area effect that is not bound by material limits.

Because it is more effective against armoured targets.

Nex, for shooting people with weapons I can carry one-handed.

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No, electrical field, like the ones generated by tesla coils (not the arcs of lightning). That was how he did wireless electricity.

Would it be possible to generate a directional electric field?

Nex, the current most powerfull personell weapon is the phase compression rifle, which we need a smaller alternative to.

Probably?

I've sort of realized that already. How abot plasmons and plasma polaritons?

Would gravitons be any good if used in beams then?

How about Taus and Anti-Taus? EDIT: Or what about gravitinos?

What about anti-photon, would that be possible. Not as a weapon though, as a sort of field or layer to protect from light, lasers, magnetism, x-rays and gamma-rays.

How about anti-quark weapons?

Nex, until you can prevent them, they can, that's what happened to me and Lee, Retech was in control of us. And the talk of research in the back room made me come up with an idea related to how the ZPMs' cores would have to be built up, we might be able to actually use it for some pourpose. A quark fog, releasing rouge quarks into a sealed vacuum might have some good effects, either in generating power or maybe a way to generate a new kind of energy weapon, and the good thing about it, a such device should be possible to make in any size, even small enough to fit on a lvl 19 nanite, since their working components are sub-atomic particles. Archi, you wouldn't mind giving me a clue as to what such a device would do, would you?

It wasn't even that good, it would have been worth the time if I could get to actually use it, but there's only so much you can do with a semi-infinite powersource that only drained as the result of an improbabillity.

Nex, if they can control your brain then they can definatly scan it (not as in remote, but physically learning from it by examining your neural pathways).

Too late for that Nex, and you might want to revise the method of destruction, if some nanites were to enter and scan your brain, there'd be no way for them to implode (they're already as compact as they can get), so instead they would turn into razor-sharp pancakes as they are squashed, severing neural pathways, turning you into a vegetable. Lee, a lobotomy would turn you as compliant as SI on truth serum and a drop of cyanide would make sure you could never refuse anything ever again.

Ross, I set the 100 years as I begun researching them, most of the arguements only started once I was begining to reach 70+ years.

The workings for the gates were made in session by asking SI if it would work, but when it came to power consumption I was left with a cost, not anything that could anyhow be used as a unit for elecrtical charge, even though the device works on electricity. And since there's no cost-to-power ratio, I'm left clueless as to what kinds of renewable energy I can use to power it.