Railgun Accelerator

   A projectile accelerator which accelerates an object using electromagnetic forces which are created when the object completes an electrical circuit between two conducting rails connected to a source of high current. In English, this means that two parallel rails are laid out like the rails of a railroad track. One end of each of these rails is connected to a power source to create an electromagnet. An object is then placed between the rails and the power is turned on. The object completes the circuit between the rails, and the electromagnetic field from the rails encompasses and grabs the object between them, then the field launches down the rails. At the end of the rail the object is launched, the circuit is broken and a new object can be put between the rails so it can then be launched. A Railgun Accelerator could be used as a rifle type device, or something that could fire asteroids at an object.