From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 11:10:12 MDT
I don't quite get how it's employed from either the aip.org site or the
referenced press release.
Are the accelerators or galleries to be configured in such a way that any
breach of vacuum anywhere in the rig creates its own plasma valve (that
sounds tricky)? Or what?
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:47:08 -0700 (PDT), Robert J. Bradbury
<bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> Now this is pretty cool. Physics News Update is reporting
> that Brookhaven & Argonne labs have managed to develop an
> actual "force field". (If you had asked me a few years
> ago whether this was possible I would have looked at you
> like you were crazy for even asking the question....
> But hell its probably a simulation so all bets are off.)
>
> See:
> "A Plasma Valve"
> http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/split/640-2.html
>
> Makes all that bullet dodging stuff that Neo does in
> The Matrix seem rather unimportant.
>
> "Watch me as I dodge all of those bullets"...
>
> "Yea, well watch me as I erect my personal force field"...
>
> Robert
>
>
>
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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