Post by Science Fiction Movie on Nov 18, 2023 9:43:07 GMT
“Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.”
— Peter Venkman; Ghostbusters
The Proton Pack is the primary ghost capturing device used by the Ghostbusters.
Designed in 1984 by Egon Spengler and Ray Stantz, the Proton Pack countered the negative energy of ghosts with a Proton Stream, a stream of positively charged ions. The stream contained a ghost upon contact. The Proton Stream was very dangerous and barely controllable. At the Sedgewick Hotel, Ray realized they had not achieved a completely successful test of their equipment. Egon blamed himself. A successful "field test" was conducted on a Chambermaid's cart. Egon later informed the other Ghostbusters that crossing Proton Streams would result in "total protonic reversal," causing all life as we know it to stop instantaneously and every molecule in a user's body to explode at the speed of light. The Proton Pack made the cover of the October 1984 issue of Omni.