I just can't wrap my head around this. And it is present everywhere! Movies, Games, TV Series, you name it!
They are bloody energy weapons. Did anyone even bother considering how the recoil is generated in the first place ?
I mean, seriously, firing advanced laser weapons and the gun kicks back. Why? There is no force in play there. A laser gun is literally a beam, fired either consistently or in small bursts. A high powered ray of light. How can that generate recoil?
As for plasma weapons, they are firing streams of plasma(duh). Seriously, plasma is just superheated gas (ok it's not as simple as that, but I am trying to keep it simple) It doesn't involve conventional ballistics in launching it, how can the plasma stream produce recoil?
Am I really the only one who cannot make any sense out of this?
