force fields

[retroworm]

Recently released game Red Alert 3 has a device called nanoswarm which creates a protective bubble around tanks etc. Supposedly it's microscopicly thin layer of matter hardened in air somehow. No idea how much merit that has in reality, but I just thought it was fairly creative idea for a shield.

Technically magnetic fields affect everything, just very little. Nasa has a lab with a magnet so powerful that it can attract even organic objects. There's a funky video on youtube where they suspend a frog in air with it.

[GestaltO]

so then technically my original thoughts could be theortically possibly, maybe just not in the initial way i thought. It would need to somehow magnetise the object coming toward the sheild to the same polarity of the sheild in order for it to repel it.