Let's invent a force field

[patentman]

Hmmm. Couldn't you just create a humongous electromagnet and alternate the polarity really fast (io.e. by controlling input voltage or some such).

It might blow up from all the heat that will likely be generated, but if the magnetic field were strong enough you could repulse anything with a non-zero magentic susceptibility, or at least slow it down. Plus we could get rid of all those pesky people with pacemakers.....

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
To venture back on topic....

I had a chem prof in college who used to work for 3M. He once told us about a situation in a 3M plant that involved large amounts of static electricity which somehow formed an "invisible wall", which would physically prevent people from walking across the room.

Here's a link.

woah...I´d buy tickets!

 

[Xyo II]

the cover story of an issue (cant remember month) of Scientific American outlined quantum cryptography and applicable uses, and most importantly outlined the building of a quantum computer, and you could probably use one of those to power google's websearch by itself (which uses over 100,000 servers) but unfortunately are, as of yet, a bit out of reach.

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: patentman
Hmmm. Couldn't you just create a humongous electromagnet and alternate the polarity really fast (io.e. by controlling input voltage or some such).

It might blow up from all the heat that will likely be generated, but if the magnetic field were strong enough you could repulse anything with a non-zero magentic susceptibility, or at least slow it down. Plus we could get rid of all those pesky people with pacemakers.....

oh, that was kind of horrible, w/ the pacemaker thing lmao, but its probably easier to first polarize the object you want to repel (big magneto-magic gun) and have the same polarity at the border you want, and even easier to just hook up machine guns at crossfire- i mean, lets face it, nobody is going to get through a wall of 20 machineguns. well, okay, not whole body parts.

 

[Eureka]

Didn't they try to invent force fields with the Philadelphia Project?

Norm

 

[liquid51]

The Navy claims that was a deguassing experiment (making the ship invisible to magnetically triggered proximity mines). But there are those that believe the Navy was trying to make a massive magnetic field to bend light around the Philadelphia. But of course, according to Einstein, if you bend light, you are also unwittingly bending space and time as well. And thus, the Philadelphia was transported from the Delaware Bay to Norfolk, Virginia.

 

[Particle]

A wide beam laser?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040630090606.htm