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Originally Posted by JamesEdwards
Objection: Only lasers move at the speed of light. Particle beams, on the other hand, is a much muddier science.
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WRONG. Particles CAN move at the speed of light (they become something called tachyons), so particle beams can move at the speed of light too.
Lasers are technically particle beams too if you count photons as particles since they behave as such, but they have zero mass so you can't count them as particles in particle beam.
A beam, technically speaking, is a stream of particles travelling as a group with a stable RMSS, and mechanically is considered a single entire projectile. Under quantum terms however, they are group of individual projectiles so properties are allocated to each projectile within a group, unless the particles are tightly packed together and in contact with on another, or have an inter-particle (nuclear forces, electromagnetic, gravitational) force exerted on one another in the group.