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Force Field. No, Really

Posted by jamie on from the GeV dept.

tqft points out news of "a working force field, using plasma. Now to scale the sucker up." Here's the Brookhaven press release. I can think of so many uses for this.

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  1. Re:Hehehe what?? by chainsaw1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except this wall has a very small, negligable mass.

    Thus, you could also make a balloon with extra lifting capasity just by vacuuming out the inside of a field. It could also fly closer to space than any other balloon, since it has a vacuume(essentially 0 density).

    Or you could have containment for mass-sensitive matter (antimatter, etc.)

    How about a see-through wall with zero heat transfer by contact?

    How about a wall that cannot melt, because there is nothing there to melt? We may finally have something we can melt diamond/carbon in

    Sometimes you have to think outside the ridgid plasma cube

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    - Sig