Creating a Hard and Feasible Molecular Disrupting Beam
A common weapon in science fiction is the Molecular Disrupting Beam, which disintegrates anything caught by the beam into basic atoms and molecules with no wound or gash, more as if a portion of the targeted material or person simply ceased to exist.
It comes with many names, WH40k calls them Gauss Flayers, Niven calls it the Wunderland Treatymaker, Ender's Game calls it Little Doctor...
Yet all seems to be abject handwavium and unobtainium, and there has been no true patent or design.
Thus, I ask, what are your ideas on making a working Disruptor, with only current science and resources?
Some minor unobtainium (please specify) can be allowed, but no utter handwavium (no fictional physics).
An extra assumption is that all the resources needed (energy, particles, etc...) is present.
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