I was wondering if one of the ghostbusters droped there thrower wilst it was on full blast would it do what a fire hose would do and wave out of control ?

I think if they dropped it, it would turn off. I always thought the stream was turned on with the silver push button on top of the gun.

It would turn off. The blasters do not have a continuous blasting system. They're trigger operated, which means no fingie, no blastie.

Good question. . .as the last 2 replies said, I think it'd turn off. BUT if it were somehow to stay on w/o someone holding, I'd imagine it would most defintely do the “fire hose thing” considering how the guys look to be struggling at keeping the thrower steady on higher settings.

i'll take the duct tape off of my trigger, then.

Hhmm… after watching the films, cartoons, etc. and seeing the physics of all this, I would think that yes, the proton gun would “do the firehose thing.” Although, thinking about it, proton packs shoot proton beams. The properties of which are obviously much different from water out of a hose, or bullets from a gun. So after giving it a little thought, I don't really think that proton guns would produce any sort of recoil. I think because firehoses and guns deal with compressed kind of potential energy…. I think. In firehoses, you have pressurized water that (with the switch of a valve) is released, and “pushed” out of a nozzle, turning to kinetic energy. With the proton gun however, there's no compression, thus when the proton beam is produced, nothing is being “pushed”. I'm guessing it's sort of like a flashlight maybe. If you turn on a flashlight and set it down on it's own, the force of the light beam doesn't cause any recoil and push the flashlight backward, because light works like that. I'm not a science guy, but I'm guessing because this kind of stuff works on a micro level, with particles and things. The particles just aren't massive enough to force anything, at least not anything heavy. Maybe if proton packs weighed .000000000001 grams or so, then that recoil firehose thing would happen.

I really don't know however. For one, proton beams as far as I know don't exist so it's hard to explain that with science. Plus, I'm not all that smart with science.

Some pretty interesting theories.

As for the operation, it would seem the Proton Guns operate on a ‘dead man’s lever' system, as emplied by Lightsabres in Star Wars, or more realistically, the control switches on at least London Underground trains, and as Chris said, no hand, no operation.

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I really don't know however. For one, proton beams as far as I know don't exist so it's hard to explain that with science. Plus, I'm not all that smart with science.

Protons have mass, and the amount of particles they would have to
project to cause a visible effect (the reddish lightning bolt) is a
very, VERY large amount since they have to ionize enough atmospheric
gas to produce visible light. Were talking very unsafe levels of particle
radiation here. That much particle mass may cause thrust effects to
the projector and it's weilder. But not as much as what we saw in the
films/cartoons. And yeah the switches are “Spring-Off” types like
the trigger on a drill or key on a keyboard to be more on target.

i think it would recoil, look at how peter is staggering back in the courtroom scene when hes firing the proton blaster.

I think it turned of.(*janine)
Perhaps it call fire police.
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