I know it's stupid to open a question with "so I was watching a movie..." but give me a second as this is a serious question
I was watching an old Schwarzenegger movie from 15-20 years ago where they have Gauss rifles which I guess were a newish concept back then.
The movie is total BS obviously, I'm not expecting there to be some magnetic assault rifle which flings out hundreds of rounds silently at a billion FPS, but I reckon the technology could be fascinating.
It would only be a military thing I guess, but does anyone know of anyone developing a practicale gauss rifle type system? e.g. can be operated easily by 1 person without lugging a science lab around with you?
Interesting stuff...