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Random thoughts about railguns

There has always been disparity between real life railguns and those found in video games. Video game RG's are noisy, flashy, and produce inexplicable trails of glowing particles. Real life railguns are virtually noiseless and produce no visual cues at at all to indicate their firing. One could simply put this down as hollywood bravado, but im gonna try and explain it in scientific terms. Simply assume that video game railguns fire their projectiles at near-c speeds. At close to the speed of light, the equation E=MC^2 kicks in, increasing the energy of the projectile to near infinity. This energy manifests itself as heat, light, and spacial distortion. Our railguns cannot reach nearly the speed of light, producing little more than a minute sonic boom in the way of sound