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University of Leicester students wrote an interesting paper on the possibility of creating Star Wars–type deflector shields to protect a spaceship or other similar bodies from enemy laser attacks in today’s world! According to these students, you would need to use a strong magnetic field to contain a dense, ultra-hot plasma field around your spaceship. More is the frequency of the radiations needed to be deflected, more dense should be the plasma field.
This might seem implausible, but for your surprise we already use similar technique with radio communications and radar !! The ionosphere that surrounds our planet is a plasma field. It reflects radio waves (from emitter to receiver) just as a shield around a spaceship would deflect laser fire.
Although the required magnet strength for a deflector is possible today, there are at least a couple of problems that need to be solved to shield a spaceship. First, the size of the necessary power source would be so big that there wouldn’t be much space left in the ship. Our science hasn’t yet developed a power source that’s feasible in size. The second problem is that pilots would be effectively blinded by the shield. Any shield that deflects light radiation also prevents light from getting to the pilot. So unless the Force is guiding you, you’d need another light source that’s beyond the frequency of light radiation. An ultraviolet camera is one possibility.
There are also other applications for this type of technology that we could use here on Earth. For example, instead of deflecting the radiation, the Leicester students suggest trapping it for use with a fusion reactor.
keep visiting "hotgravity.blogspot.com" for more :)
This might seem implausible, but for your surprise we already use similar technique with radio communications and radar !! The ionosphere that surrounds our planet is a plasma field. It reflects radio waves (from emitter to receiver) just as a shield around a spaceship would deflect laser fire.
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Although the required magnet strength for a deflector is possible today, there are at least a couple of problems that need to be solved to shield a spaceship. First, the size of the necessary power source would be so big that there wouldn’t be much space left in the ship. Our science hasn’t yet developed a power source that’s feasible in size. The second problem is that pilots would be effectively blinded by the shield. Any shield that deflects light radiation also prevents light from getting to the pilot. So unless the Force is guiding you, you’d need another light source that’s beyond the frequency of light radiation. An ultraviolet camera is one possibility.
There are also other applications for this type of technology that we could use here on Earth. For example, instead of deflecting the radiation, the Leicester students suggest trapping it for use with a fusion reactor.
keep visiting "hotgravity.blogspot.com" for more :)
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