Is the Doom Plasma Rifle technically feasible, or is it just Scifi nonsense? In this analysis we will try to figure out the technology behind the Plasma Rifle, and how it could be implemented in the real world.

Disclaimer:
This video tries to explain the operation of a fictional weapon with real world physics. Some concepts are vastly simplified and some bold assumptions are made.


Referenced scientific articles/Further reading:
Injection of a HighDensity Plasma into the GlobusM Spherical Tokamak (https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.a...)

A Critical History of Electric Propulsion: The First Fifty Years (19061956) (https://mae.princeton.edu/sites/defau...)

A TOROIDAL PLASMA GUN (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fq7...)

COAXIAL PLASMA GUN IN THE HIGH DENSITY REGIME AND INJECTION INTO A HELICAL FIELD 2 (https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...)

Compact toroid formation, compression, and acceleration (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063...)

EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE OF COAXIAL PLASMA GUNS (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/1...)

Performance of Hydromagnetic Plasma Gun (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063...)

Shiva Star Marauder Compact Torus System (https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...)


00:00 Introduction
00:29 What is Plasma?
01:19 What Ammunition is Used?
01:40 Energy Consumption
03:17 Launching the Plasma Bolt
04:48 Intermission
05:12 The Donuts
06:16 Creating Donuts
07:24 Real World Use
08:34 Intermission 2
09:32 Real World Use Part II
09:48 Real World Plasma Weapons
10:39 Doom Plasma Rifle vs. Real World Plasma Weapon
11:09 Outro


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