The plasma’s temperature and density help deflect and absorb the shockwaves from the explosion. In the patent illustration, the force field protects a military HMMWV, but the design is written ...

Plasma—the electrically charged fourth state of matter—is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including ...

The plasma field would also be temporary – hence the need for sensors to activate it when a blast is detected – so the sort of all-encompassing force field we’re familiar with from the ...

Lucasfilm — -- Boeing's new patent may let the force be with you even in real ... providing a laser-induced plasma field of protection from the shock waves. "Explosive devices are being ...

Smaller objects, like planets and stars, generate their own magnetic fields from dynamo actions inside them, where swirling flows of electrically charged plasma force weak magnetic fields to fold ...

In the LWFA scheme, the laser ponderomotive force excites ultra-relativistic ... eventually reaching the plasma–neutral gas boundary, located where laser fields are not sufficiently high ...