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<blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 2098109" data-attributes="member: 209771">What is the scientific basis behind &quot;shield&quot; technology in future/space shows?Is this something that can actually be developed? Where did the idea of some kind of electric or magnetic or whatever shield come from? With a deadly layer of high speed space debris accumulating around our Earth right now, I wonder if we&#039;ll ever be able to get off of the planet without developing this shield technology.Is shield technology something that can theoretically be developed? And if so where can I read about the theories behind it?Thanks@ Well unless anyone else has any input I&#039;ll take your word that it&#039;s purely fictional. I proposed this question because I&#039;ve only taken a foundational level of physics and I couldn&#039;t figure out how force fields could be possible from what I know.But so many other future technologies show up based upon some tidbit of scientific theory that I wonder if there is some small theory that compelled this. Recently laser weapons have been developed though not in the way depicted in the SF world, and I even recently heard of a device that can send a particle through a directed beam and construct simple microscopic structures (Which may become in a few centuries the technology to build larger structures/objects like in Starcraft or like the food generators in Star Trek) So, though surely over-dramatized in SF shows, I was just curious if there was any theoretical basis for force fields.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark, post: 2098109, member: 209771"] [b]What is the scientific basis behind "shield" technology in future/space shows?[/b] Is this something that can actually be developed? Where did the idea of some kind of electric or magnetic or whatever shield come from? With a deadly layer of high speed space debris accumulating around our Earth right now, I wonder if we'll ever be able to get off of the planet without developing this shield technology. Is shield technology something that can theoretically be developed? And if so where can I read about the theories behind it? Thanks @ Well unless anyone else has any input I'll take your word that it's purely fictional. I proposed this question because I've only taken a foundational level of physics and I couldn't figure out how force fields could be possible from what I know. But so many other future technologies show up based upon some tidbit of scientific theory that I wonder if there is some small theory that compelled this. Recently laser weapons have been developed though not in the way depicted in the SF world, and I even recently heard of a device that can send a particle through a directed beam and construct simple microscopic structures (Which may become in a few centuries the technology to build larger structures/objects like in Starcraft or like the food generators in Star Trek) So, though surely over-dramatized in SF shows, I was just curious if there was any theoretical basis for force fields. [/QUOTE]

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