Shields

Vortex · **Fri May 23, 2003 4:40 pm**

It's all to be found here.

www.ditl.org

stv12 · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 337

Vortex · **Sat May 24, 2003 8:54 am**

A brick has energy as well. A car, a spaceship, it all has energy. Common, basic physics proves that. As long as atoms move, there is energy. Kinetic energy, potenial energy, etc etc etc.

E=mc2 or translated, Energy equals mass times the lightspeed squared. Where the lightspeed is considered the constant. Energy can never be created nor destroyed, it simply changes form.

stv12 · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 337

But, back to the topic. how does this 'Enegry' protect you?

Dax Orien · **Fri May 30, 2003 8:54 am**

After all this you still can't tell?

stv12 · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 337

No...im a complete fool

Dax Orien · **Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:04 am**

Yeah, but are you crazy like me?

Mark Mag Gloade · **Fri Aug 08, 2003 7:07 pm**

well if phasers are light then light must protect you from it

The Delta Flyer · **Sat Aug 09, 2003 10:50 am**

So are phasers just "hot light"?

Captain CB · **Sun Aug 10, 2003 6:30 am**

No

phasers are phased energy

PhasER = Phased Energy Retification

The Delta Flyer · **Sun Aug 10, 2003 7:06 am**

Ok, this might sound daft, but what is phased energy?

And what's the difference between a laser and a phaser...I always thought a phaser was a hotter laser lol (you can tell I'm not very technical about such things lol)

PrankishSmart · **Mon Aug 11, 2003 7:06 am**

A laser is light.
A phaser is energy.

Simple

The Delta Flyer · **Mon Aug 11, 2003 5:19 pm**

Thanks

Maga Morgan · **Mon Aug 11, 2003 7:29 pm**

I`m not sure if the light will protect you, but i know it will protect you from Romulans,but the energywill protect you

Mark Mag Gloade · **Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:07 pm**

so shields are light and energy and phasers are light and engergy, opposites attract and sames repell this could be hhow shields work.....

webtaz99 · **Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:20 am Shields**

(deep breath here)
We already use a techonolgy to cancel sound by producing equal-but-opposite sound waves. The waves undergo "destructive interference", resulting in no waves. This concept applies to electromagentic waves as well.

The military is developing a radar version of this whereby an object creates EM waves exactly equal in amplitue and frequency but opposite in phase to waves that are hitting it, cancelling out both sets of waves.

This could theoretically extend to matter (creating anti-matter opposites, then cancelling out the resulting energy). An important thing to note is that it will always require more energy from the "shield" than is being "cancelled".

This obviously requires a VERY fine control of electromagnetic energy and would involve creation of matter from energy, but these are given things in the ST universe.

Mark Mag Gloade · **Sun Nov 16, 2003 8:58 pm**

ok
now we understand how shields work...considering that they hardly exist

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webtaz99 · **Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:45 pm Light and energy**

Remember E=mC^2?

Basically, energy is the ability to make changes. It does not exist as a separate thing; it is always a property of matter.

Light is made of photons, which are the carrier particles for electromagnetic force. EM force and gravity are the only forces which have any observable effect at molecular or larger scales.

Light is not pure energy. Light HAS energy (due to its ability to alter the properties of matter), and due to the energy/mass equivalence it has mass. Astronomical photos show that large masses can cause light to curve (gravity lensing), proving that it has mass.

Even when you see atomic or chemical reactions which include energy in the results, that energy takes the form of some property or properties of matter. In nuclear reactions the "leftover" energy is distributed among the resulting particles as kinetic energy, in proportion to their masses.

Nearly all the "forms of energy" we are used to involve the kinetic energy of electrons, atoms and larger structures. There is known no "form of energy" not directly tied to matter.