I see your point BUT...
1. Clyne is established as an expert in optics etc in his lab.
2. I do not know Moldova very well, but I know research institutes in Belarus (not far away) are very well resourced. Indeed, I saw a research seminar on imaging thought patterns by a Belorussian research team, very simple (can you detect the brain patters when looking at single colours)
3. The idea of creating a 3D printed weapon using a super cooled condensed matter state then charging it as a sort of super-conducting apparition, connected to a disembodied nervous system stripped from dead bodies was cool...but I am easily pleased, so sue me! It also makes sense that the apparitions needed to be connected to the disembodied nervous system to work. If you are being picky, the major problem is that the Bose-Einstein condensate is not very stable so the apparitions ability to travel great distances seems far fetched and how were the impulses from the brain transmitted to them? But it is a movie...
4. Remember the troops were deployed with the DARPA gadgets he was building, so there would be spare parts lying around.
5. I am a very bad scientist, but I reckon I could have made a pretty good plasma gun like theirs from the arc welder in my garage, iron fillings and some butane, probably an even better one if I had a inert gas welder, it did not seem overly stupid.
Other than "The Expanse" tv show, I cringe at almost every Sci Fi movie/tv series I watch, this one made me smile, so it did a good job, I might even like it better than Edge of Tomorrow, which I also enjoyed a lot.
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