There is that, true. All rail guns work with very large currents that create a huge magnetic field - the same current going through that field experiences a linear force in the rail gun configuration where the same current goes through the moving conductor. In my experiment some 5000 Amps is going through the heavy cylindrical armature. That is enough to give it the amount of force required for such acceleration. See the figures. The momentum of muzzle was 6.337 Kg m/s seond which is giving a 6.337 gm bullet a speed of 1000m/s. Only the most powerful rifles give this kind of momentum and that too to a reasonably heavy bullet. But this gun could do much more if it was sliding, if all the 34 Newtons went forward.
Mind, my gun has a much higher design force capability than the rail guns on display by the US Navy. Besides, their formula is wrong.
> Why wouldn't the force on the armature and the force on the gun be equal
> and opposite?
Simply speaking, that is the way the universe works, as per Arindam's finding, and expressed with his physics aphorisms.
To get into a bit more detail:
Because Maxwellian electrodynamics reduces to the formula F = B i L and to that there is no reaction predicted, implying the violation of inertia and from there to "flying carpet" physics and technology, following my formula e=0.5mVVN(N-k) for interstellar spacecraft, and many explanations of natural phenomena.
The rail gun motor is an invention that is based upon the violation of inertia with a particular configuration - the electromagnetic force accelerating the armature does not push the gun back. The gun is pushed by the forward action, which because of the rolling friction from the treadmill action, pushes back the gun - giving the impression of recoil. If it was sliding - say on mercury rails - the whole force would be going forward and it would be far more efficient, practically no recoil.
The earlier Newtonian-Amperian electrodynamics formula was F = f(i1, i2) which predicted an opposite reaction. The net force in the closed loop was zero, for the force from the opposing current conductor (i2) would negate the force from conductor i1.
In relativistic quantum stuff, energy is bundled, up, and progresses through a circuit much like water in a closed pipe with a compressor. So, no change of inertial state possible.
Yes, there would be an equal and opposite reaction if either Newtonian-Amperian or Einsteinian-Feynmain electrodynamics was correct, but experiment with my apparatus (a working model of a new design rail gun) shows such is not the case.
Which means that Maxwellian electrodynamics is correct and Einstein-Feynman relativistic quantum electrodynamics must wrong if there is no equal or opposite reaction.
As there is no equal and opposite reaction, shown many times with my experiments, the latter is wrong and the former is right.
That means, aether is back in business.
Quantum theory must be discarded on correctness grounds, but may still have use for certain purposes. Like flat earth theory is okay for flat maps, for taxi cabs, not pilots.
***Now, Roachie, where are you, wu bist du? Did my falling armature crush you, poor roach! Alas. ***
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee
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> Sylvia.