- coolnate11
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I'm Quadrophenic...
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Well you're making this assumption based on the fact that the gun actually is metal on metal, it is in a contact based sense, but the way you're question is thought out that's not all we can look at. Scenario: the gun is fired with the armor on, this creates an impact which creates a shock wave that comes from the explosion of the bullet transferring to the gun and, because the Spartan is holding the gun with his hands, his hands an anything else the gun is touching (armor). so now we look at the human body, basically a large extremely complex gyroscope and compensator. we compensate for motion very very well with our joints and muscles etc. But the shock of a bullet being fired in a compressed chamber is a lot so that con't account for all of it. So now we look at the armor, hard metal so this has to absorb something (however minute) and then the energy would get passed on to whatever it is touching, much like someone feeling the shock of a baseball against a bat. So now we look at what is touching the armor, the spartan. see the shock still goes into the human, even though the armor's there, its simply an energy transfer.
This same concept can be applied to the fact that even though high end bullet proof vest can take the explosion of a frag grenade literally in contact with the vest, any person wearing that vest's inside would me turned to "soup" because the shock wave from the explosion still enters their body.
Gotta love physics.
[Edited on 08.04.2011 9:57 AM PDT]