The Gaussian gun felt hefty in Yao Yuan’s hand.
Although, to be fair, what he held in his hand wasn’t actual Gaussian weaponry. Those were still impossible for man at the time to make. What he had was a simplified prototype.
Actual Gaussian weaponry, or electromagnetic weaponry, destroys its target at the atomic level. Its projectiles create an electromagnetic vortex that disrupts atomic stability through the formation of bipolar magnetic fields.
The Gaussian prototypes created by Bo Li’s lab were weak imitations. Using magnetic coils in the configuration of a linear motor, they formed accelerators that could shoot out projectiles at high velocity. The accumulative magnetic pulse formed by the succession of coils and small projectile mass added up to a high velocity bullet. Theoretically speaking, with the increase in voltage and decrease in projectile mass, the bullet could even reach light-speed!
