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Bending a bullet?


Momentumous

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Yes, this has indefinitely been proven impossible, but just how impossible?

Google appears to have failed me for actual statistics on the infamous gun used in Wanted for the curved bullet, so lets just say this pistol has a muzzle velocity of 250 m/s (810 ft/s). Lets also say the barrel length is 5". So the bullet sits at rest with a velocity of 0 to 250 m/s over 5". That means in .000508 seconds (v=(x/t)=> x/v=t) the bullet got to the end of the barrel. Which also means it had an acceleration of about 500000 m/s^2 (a=(v/t)).

With this in mind, note that you'd also have to have IMPECCABLE timing so that you change the motion of the muzzle JUST as the bullet is about to leave, nicking the bullet and therefore affecting its direction. So if you're so lucky as to have the timing down, you'd have .000508 seconds to move the muzzle.

I don't know about you, but when I jerk my hand as fast as possible, I can still SEE the movement, it'd take some sort of crazy robot that can accelerate faster than 500000 m/s^2 to even hope to curve a bullet.

Plausible? With modern technology, maybe, but certainly not by hand.

(please note I know very little about guns from prior knowledge, these are theoretical values deduced from numbers I found online with some sort of frequency).

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