Scientists work to produce 'Star Trek' deflector device

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hanelyp
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Scientists work to produce 'Star Trek' deflector device

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Shields up! Scientists work to produce 'Star Trek' deflector device
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/27/world/eur ... le_sidebar
... What we discovered is that if you put a magnetic field around an object in a flowing plasma, the electrons, which are very light, will follow the new magnetic field that you've put there but the ions, the very fast ions, will overshoot -- they won't follow the magnetic field lines.

"You end up with a constant electric field that can be enough that it actually refracts or deflects enough of the radiation from inside the magnetic cavity that you've formed to protect the astronauts ...
Reminds me of the field gradient inside a polywell.
The daylight is uncomfortably bright for eyes so long in the dark.

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