ok. light is a particle and a wave. a force field would only block waves or particles. if a shield is up you would see black because a shield blocks particles and light is a particle so there would be no light
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Originally posted by Gavatarman View Postok. light is a particle and a wave. a force field would only block waves or particles. if a shield is up you would see black because a shield blocks particles and light is a particle so there would be no light
Unless I'm confused about something
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Originally posted by Coronach View PostHmm, what makes you think this? Remember in "Upgrades" when they could run through a force field because they were moving faster than the oscillations of it? Light moves many many orders of magnitude faster than even this, so I see no reason light couldn't get into a force field.
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Originally posted by Coronach View PostHmm, what makes you think this? Remember in "Upgrades" when they could run through a force field because they were moving faster than the oscillations of it? Light moves many many orders of magnitude faster than even this, so I see no reason light couldn't get into a force field.
Unless I'm confused about something
To preserve power, and the fact not many things travel at c, it is most likely shields (if they existed) would have to operate over intervals, an example of this in a scifi show would be Farscape... Or, it could be that shields are automatically adjusted per assault (conserve power), so things which have no affect (eg normal light) are allowed through, while more intense laser (beam weapons) are blocked by drawing more power.
You could also have that the wave of light is refracted through the shield.
Then you have Atlantis' shields, which allow ancient ships to pass through, so there must be some allowable exception to allow light to pass through. :/
Pick one
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The shields aren't active at all times and when they are, you see the shields and not the object behind them. The shield are on but at very, very low power until something impacts it and then they draw power proportional to the power of whatever is impacting it. The more powerful the shield is and the greater the impact, the less you are able to see on the other side of the shield.
Of course, this is all fiction, but the theory is sound in the "physics" of Stargate.
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Originally posted by Jedi_Master_Bra'tac View PostScience Fiction
There's also sound in space rememberhttp://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....30&postcount=9
http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....9&postcount=18
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A shield would need to allow anything outgoing while blocking incoming matter and energy. It should reemit in the same direction a limited amount of the radiation that hits it (for visual and sensors) and block the radiation that pases that limit.
An effective shield cannot simply let pass light (without absorbing and reemiting) and switch to blocking mode when something hits it because it would be vulnerable to brief intense pulses like a nuclear explosion or the much shorter laser pulses used today in some nuclear fusion experiments.
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Originally posted by K^2 View PostLight passes through glass. Ordinary matter does not.All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing-Edmund Burke
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Originally posted by jds1982 View PostI dunno, from my experience a rock is matter and it can pass through glass with great ease.
Besides, I'm sure that a big enough rock accelerated by big enough mass driver will also have little trouble going through shields. So I think that analogy is mostly fair.
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