The Genius Behind The First Active Deflector Shield
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Published 2024-04-07
0:00 The 1972 Solar Radiation Event
1:27 Radiation in Deep-Space
5:05 The Insane Challenge of Active Shielding
12:30 The First Real Deflector Shield
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All Comments (21)
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I planned the whole time to use a clip from Dune of the Holtzmans shields. 100% the best visual of an energy shield - other than I guess being able to make a real one...
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I'm not sure it'd stop a photon torpedo, but it's a step in the right direction... 😄
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-What were you working on in NASA, dad? A CREW-HAT. But they rejected the design.. -How hard can it be to design a new "NASA" cap.. Why did they reject it? It turned out too big and heavy.. -How heavy? 25'000Kg, but still a huge improvement..
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Star Wars and Star Trek fans rejoice
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I think there may be an active shielding application for reentry vehicles. Watching starship form a plasma sheath made me think we could try deflecting the plasma as a way to heat shield the vehicle. May also apply to hypersonic aviation
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At 4:21 you said 99.99 times the speed of light instead of 99.99 percent the speed of light and I was like hold up 😂 The graphic has the % though so it's o
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A science channel that isn't clickbait? Subscribed.
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You know I've been working on my first science fiction novel for well over three years now, and its yt channels like this that genuinely help me ground some of my absurdly fictional concepts in at least pseudo plausible science.
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I'm sure it's covered in more detail in the actual paper, but it feels like th shadow would be offset by the increased brightness when the protons are deflected into the unshaded areas; a shadow doesn't provide 'shade' if most of the light is still reaching the surface. This feals more like it creates caustics, like light ripples on the bottom of a pool. Sure, the dark areas are darker but the light areas are brighter leading to the same overall radiation exposure. I'd be happy to be wrong.
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If you're merely deflecting the particles, then aren't you just concentrating them into the non-shielded parts of the pattern? I suppose if you stacked enough layers of this matrix, then the " tortuous path" you created would have equal probability of reflecting or letting through any given particle?
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Ideally, we'd want to "capture" these particles, and translate their energy to into usable power for the craft.
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Any astronaut caught in the blast would, of course, develop superpowers.
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I subscribed because you ask the right questions and your hands on approach . Welk done!
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That was a great presentation. Thank you!
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Thank you, Dr. Miles you are an incredible teacher. Thank you very much for bringing this.
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Another reason for discounting the electrostatic approach, even for energies that are doable, is that some particles have the opposite charge.
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I think that to test this shield around the earth, there are enough radiation belts, inside which satellites like SUBESAT can be launched, which can then be returned to the ground and their surface examined under an electron microscope for radiation damage.
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Not enough people talk about this major roadblock to space travel...👍
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You should check out the Boeing patents for the plasma shield. Pretty cool way to tank particles and all kinds of stuff. No details but I think it uses lasers to create a plasma and devices to control the magnetic fields to form the plasma into a shield. Stops bullets and even photons.
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This was good information, you've earned a new sub today. Thanks for all your hard work.
