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- The proton pack is a fictional energy-based capture device, used for controlling and lassoing ghosts in the Ghostbusters universe. First depicted in the film Ghostbusters, it has a hand-held wand ("Neutrona Wand" or particle thrower) connected to a backpack-sized nuclear accelerator.
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The proton pack is a fictional energy-based capture device, used for controlling and lassoing ghosts in the Ghostbusters universe. First depicted in the film Ghostbusters , it has a hand-held wand ("Neutrona Wand" or particle thrower) connected to a backpack-sized nuclear accelerator .
The Proton Pack is the primary ghost capturing device used by the Ghostbusters. The Proton Pack in the Primary Canon is developed from Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. In Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Versions), a Secondary...
Nov 17, 2021 · The proton pack is a nuclear-powered backpack capable of accelerating a stream of protons inside the body of the pack and shoot them out of the Particle Thrower at its end. It accomplishes this through a cyclotron (or in the case of the 2016 reboot, a synchrotron).
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May 18, 2016 · In practical terms, the Proton Pack is a miniature particle accelerator that ensnares negatively charged ectoplasmic entities inside a positively-charged proton beam. The term "proton pack" is not used in the original movie at all — it was originally described as a positron collider.
The Proton Pack/Realistic Version is an experimental and untested prototype upgrade of the standard Proton Pack, an unlicensed nuclear accelerator that functions by concentrating protons through the Neutrona Wand; its the Ghostbusters' main tool against negatively charged ectoplasmic entities.