FORCE FIELDS: How Close are We?

[@Nefville]

Simon was like "well I have an extra 13 minutes every third Tuesday, time for a new channel!"

[@dethrocker]

I've heard he gave up the time he changes his baby's nappies.....what a guy

[@jcdock]

@@dethrocker no idea where you heard that

[@drewlovely2668]

@@jcdock its a joke inferring he cares more about money and his viewers than his 2 young children..

[@dethrocker]

@@drewlovely2668 no....its to get out of changing shitty nappies while making more money .....so I guess half your point stands sir!!! But im gonna go with both our answers just in case Simon of youtube sees this and can have a giggle.......while he drowns in hard cash

[@mattyt1961]

@@dethrocker I am fairly sure he does this so he can be like his hero... Scrooge McDuck and swim in his cash.

[@some_haqr]

" a force field you cant see through is just a wall" - Simon best quote of the year

[@RadenVijaya]

And a force field you can see through is just bulletproof glass...

[@imperfectly-balanced8861]

Ahhhhh the forcefield.. keeping Simon's writers well secured in the basement since forever. 😂

[@zipp4everyone263]

Dont you mean Blazement?

[@maryellencook9528]

@@zipp4everyone263 😆😂🤣😅😆

[@HyperionMP]

Nicely intoxicated as well. Not sure about the substance however

[@hattorihanzo2705]

Boeing got the prototype designs from Simon!

[@jm40004]

Don't forget the editors

[@damonmolloy2170]

Each of your channels have a certain look and feel. The unique interpretation from the editors, and the post productions, are appropriate for the subject channel. In bringing their own interpretation to the finished presentation makes all of your channels have their own personality and flow. Great work everyone. Oh, Simon, you did good too. :-) D.

[@mitchellforney6109]

Yeah, I really like how different the editing and graphics are on this channel compared to his others. Not saying the others should be like this, but it works great here!

[@scienceunbound460]

Thank you.

[@oldsoldier4209]

@@scienceunbound460 A "Science of Fantasy" channel is totally possible, Simon. To quote Arthur C. Clark, "Any technology, if sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.". Use that as your premise, and explain how all of the "magic" is just misunderstood science. I'll give you a simple one hypertrichosis=werewolf. 🤠👍

[@noodlelynoodle.]

@@oldsoldier4209 chemistry really feels like magic, you go from a few harmless starting products and end up with completely different possibly deadly end products or the other way around

[@rhov-anion]

@@oldsoldier4209 There was a TV show or maybe a TV special back in the 90s called "The Science of Magic." It was hosted by magician/actor Harry Anderson from "Night Court." (80s sitcom my mom loved.) Science magic tricks for kids get millions of views on YT, so it might be a hit.

[@djdrack4681]

Simon could have been a great spy: he's able to grow a beard, he uses a ton of aliases naturally (channels), he totally blends into a crowd (because he's 100% not a giant), and he knows how to bluff his way through knowing random BS. the making of a 10/10 spy, all he needs is an aston martin, gadgets, and license to ill

[@briankdey1746]

He'd drive a 2012 Aston Martin Cygnet! 😆

[@treju9499]

@@briankdey1746 newest astons with AMG engines are equally embarrassing

[@aceundead4750]

Doesnt he have a bit of metal in him now too because of breaking his collar bone, or was it his shoulder? Cyborg spy if so.

[@phantomechelon3628]

Licence to Ill you say? He can borrow my Beastie Boys album...

[@djdrack4681]

@@treju9499 That's OK though, blaze boy doesn't have an issue with embarassing himself. :P

[@Sniperboy5551]

I’ve been a long time subscriber to all of Simon’s channels, but I didn’t even know that this one existed until it popped up in my recommended! Cool stuff, I can’t wait to binge the rest!

[@frogz]

you're missing about 20 channels

[@krozareq]

@@frogz But at least he has the other 184

[@darkermatter125.35]

I had a professor in high school whose son had a PhD in plasma physics and was very accomplished, so i knew they were working on force fields back in 2008. His son also was on the canada/us team that collaborated on the study of the Aurora Borealis long term. At one point he was working in a lab that had a 24/7 live feed, and since his dad LOVED me (I was the only one in the entire high school that was enthusiastically determined to study physics in college, and started reading relativity books in middle school) because he actually had someone to talk to about his son and his son's work, and someone who understood it at that. I ended up contacting his son for a project/thesis in college that dealt with plasma physics and chaos theory that was an original idea, attempting to find a new strange attractor. Unfortunately I was denied access to supercomputers and the head of the department shut me down because I was doing something that was not sanctioned by the department (they couldn't claim it was theirs and profit off of it). I did try to continue after college without resources or connections, but no one was qualified that I could find. And then I realized the pitential military use, and I shut it down for good and stopped looking to solve it. That is the one line I work very hard not to cross.

[@paulreadsthebible6584]

Most any advancement will have an abuse or military use. It's often better for humans to create, despite such fears. Any tool or social construct can, has and does get abused \ misused. But I hope you do your thing, create something amazing. But then again, I understand the hesitation. But I say, go for it.

[@nengyang1895]

Most technology use by the public now was developed and used by the military before being passed on to the consumers. GPS, cell phones, the Internet.

[@darkermatter125.35]

@@nengyang1895 do you know how we (US) designed our spy planes that has a radar detection cross section the size of a bumblebee? A system that would then be used to bomb places all over the world and design submarines and other things?

[@darkermatter125.35]

@@nengyang1895 also the foundation of wifi, frequency hopping, was invented by an actress named Hedy Lamarr, who wanted to help the US government be able to have an uncrackable, never before used technique of passing along codes in WW2, but the US miltary ignored her.

[@skylar4775]

May I ask if you ended up majoring in physics in college or a related field? Your story sounds interesting and I can see that you were passionate about physics, which is awesome!

[@TimberwolfCY]

Love the presentation here, constant relentless dead-pan lines was honestly entertaining as hell and made great transitions from one topic to the next. Fascinating subject matter and info of course, also!

[@grundelgrump]

Good God, ANOTHER channel? Not complaining, just impressed.

[@Jezus42]

I found it by accident it recommended a video with Simon and I was all what is this?

[@ItsHyomoto]

The channels are breeding, this one is the love child of Brain Blaze and Today I Found Out.

[@ilajoie3]

@@ItsHyomoto Decoding the Unknown is probably the love child of Brain Blaze and Into the Shadows

[@faolitaruna]

11:51 We are so fortunate you provided us with rare footage of person wearing glasses. How else we could see such scarce sight?

[@MikeBaxterABC]

6:08 Back in the 1980's I ran a heat treating unit that could "Plasma Nitride" hardened steel punches, to make the surface even more durable. It was new technology then, but is quite popular now. It bathed the punches in this purple / blue glow of plazma, the only down side was it made the punches slightly larger (it added maybe .002" to a half inch (.05mm to a 13mm) punch, sometimes we had to allow for that during manufacturing.

[@stawmy]

3M produced a force field by accident in one of the tape factories, it was basically a gigantic van de Graaf generator. It is said that people trying to walk past the fast moving highly charged tape found that it resisted their movements. Plasma is probably the best method, and that also involves extremely high voltage, it is also conductive and highly reactive to magnetic fields, you see there is a connection.

[@jasontoddman7265]

6:30 - I first learned that there was a fourth state of matter from an early episode of Lost in Space of all places, when June Lockhart's character answered Guy William's (rhetorical) question what the foiurth state of matter is. They got it right in one respect: the fourth state of matter *is* plasma. But then she equated it with *blood plasma,* which is completely wrong! Ten-year-old me was so confused when my dad (who was a hospital lab technician) at first nodded in agreement and then nearly bust a gut laughing as she (supposedly a doctor of some sort) clarified what she meant.

[@Mr.Dotson]

I remember watching this one anime where they were trying to protect their entire solar system from a supernova, and they used a force field with 55 layers and powered by 10-12 black hole generators. It was designed to protect against all but the largest pieces of debris, and any debris that did make it through was then destroyed by there space ships. They only 150 years to design all this and they started from basically slightly advanced present day. The anime in question is called Stellvia in case anyone wants to know.

[@613aristocrat]

I'm loving the passion Simon is bringing to this channel.

[@christinebrown3359]

Nice to see one where the answer is actually yes.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

It was either that, or rename the channel to "Simon shits on your dreams"

[@IanAlcorn]

@@ThatWriterKevin 🤣🤣🤣

[@RoboCatTrainer]

Hard not to love Simons enthusiasm here! Idk if its due to passion for the subject or just his adrenalin high of another new channel. But...i think 2 things could get past the 3 layer field, lasers (as mentioned) and... GHOSTS!

[@SkylarFTG]

I love this format, only thing is the background music is extremely distracting, it could do with being turned down a bit imo

[@zipp4everyone263]

Yeah, really had to focus to be able to understand just a bit of what was going on.

[@bladesilver9276]

Yh

[@billpancake]

yeh this, but good content 👍

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Yeah, the whole time I was thinking, “Is this really necessary?”

[@stemill1569]

and the voice could be turned down. so many half truths it's saying.

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

startrek uses fast moving ionised particles as their forcefields. the density of the ionized particles, and the frequency of how fast an individual ionized partcle cycles from being ionized, to being recaptured by the emitters and re ionized, determine the strength of the field.

[@Dr.Fluffles]

That'd still be a form of plasma, as it's basically a field of charged particles from an abundance of energy.

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

@@Dr.Fluffles yes. I understand. Plasma is charged particles. :)

[@charion1234]

Carbon nanotubes almost sound like single molecule threads. In the novel I read it was used in a variety of things, from holding up bridges down to underwear.

[@QBCPerdition]

Woah, woah, woah. You just glazed right over the gravitational force. While it might seem like a gravity field would pull things toward it, a field that bends the fabric of the universe around you, causing a bullet or whatever is streaking toward you to bend around you sounds pretty perfect to me. Even electrons and photons follow the curvature of space, so it would seem to work against any type of beam or projectile.

[@frojojo5717]

Just what I was thinking.

[@phantomechelon3628]

True. I think it would be more accurate to say gravity is a "cumulative" force...the greater an object's mass, the stronger it becomes. So at one end of the scale we can pick up a phone on Earth, but at the other, light can't escape a black hole...

[@-MarcusAurelius]

How much energy would be required to do that though? And what about the people standing right next to it? Sounds unfeasible.

[@QBCPerdition]

@@-MarcusAurelius It is unfeasible with our current understanding...but who knows what potential manipulation of the Higgs bison might achieve. And it's not like many other options are more feasible or use less power.

[@Beryllahawk]

I mean, yeah, but it seems to me that to achieve that effect would involve some terrifically dense material. Like needing a cubic centimeter of neutron star material or something. And that'd be - well, from the perspective of the bearer, that could be a literally crushing weight when set upon the surface of the Earth, right? Not to mention, even if it didn't just plunge straight to the middle of the planet (making a rather neat hole in the bearer btw), the guy wouldn't be able to move. Just seems impractical for the battlefield as we imagine it today. Don't get me wrong, I agree that it COULD be effective, but the mass/mobility issue is a big one. (All puns intended)

[@rodsprague369]

Plasma can interact with photos passing through it resulting in opaque plasma. I get the mental image of an abruptly dark spot in the field when that area gets hit with some sort of dense coherent or high energy photons.

[@lukeboyuk83]

I think the coolest thing we learnt about in science is non newtonian fluids. How when force is applied a liquid can become solid. I still remember the simple experiments.

[@danreyn]

You think that's cool? Well corn starch is the gift that keeps on giving. Mix it with water and, yeah, you get a non-Newtonian fluid that changes its viscosity in response to applied force. However, mix it with oil and you instead get an electrorheological fluid. That's a liquid that changes viscosity in response to electric fields. Build up a static charge on yourself and when you touch it, you can turn it from a watery liquid to something the consistency of hardened margarine. Then if someone without a static charge touches it, it turns right back to watery liquid. Cornstarch amirite? It can't just mix normally with things, can it? ....... I wonder what happens if you mix it with pure ethanol? This requires a test

[@CharlieCiampa]

Ut oh

[@Pryde97]

I love how you tell us how you're baiting is to keep watching as part of the entertainment itself... also you snuck in a full video on the science of fantasy... Fantastic as usual Simon and team!

[@douglasmcneil8413]

There are more than 5 senses. Sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell are not the only ones. There's balance, body position awareness (proprioception), and potentially a vestigial magnetic sense.

[@ethanrandall3005]

hunger, thirst, nausea, heat, cold, severe temperature, there's like 30 senses I think.

[@jennybrooks5887]

I am subscribed to all of your other channels and I just found your new SCIENCE CHANNEL!!!!!! Simon's soothing voice + Physics.... 😻😻😻 Thank you!!

[@rachelwitherspoon4394]

Poor sweet naive Kevin!! "Everybody knows" doesnt actually apply to many, lol. I was born and raised in the Texas school system, and you WOULDN'T BELIEVE what they DONT teach, lol. Wish we had youtube and people like you teaching us stuff when I was in school. As usual, great script and very informative! Simon, we need the Science of Fantasy channel just to watch you have an onscreen meltdown and just start gibbering 🤣🤣🤣

[@devonwhitehouse4117]

You were born into the school system? Respect, I didn't start school until I was 6

[@eliharper6616]

Yeah, we're big state with tons of tiny districts that are underfunded and over-religious

[@SoulScream1984]

It's jibbering, Texas education was great in some places.

[@rachelwitherspoon4394]

@@SoulScream1984 maybe in rich areas, and college towns. Most of Texas is much like where I grew up, the Wilmer Hutchins area, that was SO BAD that they actually CLOSED the whole town school system. My parents worked for DISD (Dallas Independent School System), and it was TERRIBLE! So, nope, not gibbering, cold hard facts.

[@michaelf.2449]

@@rachelwitherspoon4394 yeah tons of what you learn in science or history in rural towns is really lacking... I mean other than my freshman history teacher sitting us down on 9/11 to play videos of people jumping off the towers and bodies in the rubble while going onto a lecture about how Muslims hate America and how they aren't compatible in a civilized society like ours. He was really passionate about that day, but other than that he was a coach who needed a field to teach and history was easiest.

[@westownsend8228]

"they": only 1 in 100 channels succeed Simon: *starts 100 channels*

[@lukeboyuk83]

Simon must own half of youtube by now.

[@weinaddis5299]

Really like your graphics on this channel, really helps it stand out.

[@Praetor192]

I think it's cool to change it up but IMO they are a bit much/distracting. It needs to be paired back a bit.

[@bobmorr2892]

Too bad Boeing can't build a force field to protect their reputation.

[@davesnothere420]

I was in SW Baghdad in 2004 driving around in an up-armored Bradley APC when a 3 x 155 mm mortar IED was set off literally twelve feet from where I was sitting. The Bradley took all of the shrapnel but my brain certainly received a decent amount of concussive force from that blast. I was dazed and had trouble focusing the test of the day but was fine (relatively) the next day. Turned out to be a severe TBI that I still have issues today. Headaches and migraines, forgetfulness, difficultly focusing for an extended period of time, it ain't fun. That Boeing force field coulda really come in handy that day...

[@Praetor192]

Cool channel idea + I appreciate how you guys are trying to change it up. I do think the graphics, sound/visual effects, and crash cuts are bit much though. I'd suggest maybe pairing them back a bit -- personally I find the visuals a bit distracting and the audio effects are mixed a little high relative to the dialogue. Keep up the great work!

[@billalumni7760]

Reminds me of something I read quite awhile ago about the defense systems on the USS Ford. I apologize for being incredibly vague as I tried to look it up years ago without any luck but do remember it had to do with electricity and somehow shielded the hull. Anyone else able to fill in a few gaps are welcome.

[@zackmoon592]

Fun fact; "Phasers" in Star Trek are called phasers instead of lasers because the phaser was invented before the laser. In order- the 'MASER' came first using microwaves, then the 'PHASER' with the ph standing for photon, then the modern 'LASER' using N-P diode plates as the light source (hence L for light instead of PH for photon, even though they are the same thing. It was done to distinguish the prototype from the modern version) and Star Trek released in the 1960s in between the invention of the first phaser prototype and the invention of the modern laser.

[@Roguescienceguy]

Hmm, interesting. I think Simon is going to have to create yet another channel to talk about this subject😜

[@aelolul]

I don't think this is true. Where did you hear this?

[@firstmkb]

MASER was first, but there were light-pumped ruby lasers and gas tube (He-Ne) lasers long before diode lasers. Chemical dye lasers as well. DoD funded a laser weapon test using a 747 as a platform with an unholy mix of halogens & noxious chemicals as a power source too. Unless you can cite a more authoritative source! My source is my (unfunded) interest in lasers beginning when LOST IN SPACE was on broadcast TV.

[@Roguescienceguy]

@@firstmkb all hail the gen Xer. They are always right😉

[@paulfelix5849]

OMG!! Someone else actually knows who Doc Smith is, and gave an accurate attribution! That's beyond amazing! The man's writing works, and the contributions they made to real world science so often get ignored it warms my heart to see some credit where it's due. Thank you.

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

I'm thinking, if we could simulate artificial bosons, then we might be able to generate an energy field that functions like a giant oval of condensed matter.

[@martinwilliams9866]

Longitudinal waves can travel at different speeds the higher the amplitude, the faster they go, so if a number of single polarised pulses (positive or negative) of ever increasing amplitudes are generated they can be made to align at a predetermined distance, a small opposite charged "tail" can be added to prevent mutual repulsion.

[@knowledgenuggetsnz]

I’m pleased you’ve discovered meth, Simon. This channel is awesome!

[@ChineduOpara]

😂😂

[@wreckingopossum]

KZbin: How many channels do you want? Simon: Yes KZbin: Huh? Simon: All of them

[@mackenziemoore5088]

Did Danny write that opening? Practically a whole quarter of the video 😂😂

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Danny's not the only one who enjoys a solid opening!

[@mackenziemoore5088]

@@ThatWriterKevin AHHHH the legend has acknowledged me 😭😭 Seriously though, great script, mate c:

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@mackenziemoore5088 Thanks!

[@bradcalton1701]

Simon's slowly taking over youtube

[@paulbarnett227]

The electro-magnetic force is pretty useful. It protects the planet from a lot of the radiation coming from the sun by means of the magnetosphere.

[@blakhorizon915]

I fuckin love this channel... Quick make us limited some OG merch, I missed out on business..... BrainBlaze's

[@KawaiiKasai]

Just binged the whole channel. Good stuff For serious tho, is there like a list of Simon's Channels or is it just like a treasure hunt and you have to rely on the good graces of the algorithm to let you find more Fact Boy?

[@amandajones661]

Over on his Twitter is a list.

[@KawaiiKasai]

@@amandajones661 awesome, thanks!

[@torbayfruitsandjackpots1678]

Just look in the description on the video.all links to all channels are there👍🏻

[@StvPaterek]

@@torbayfruitsandjackpots1678 Not on this video. And not a list on other channels either. He has a list on Today I found out but this channel does not get listed there. Weird.

[@darryllyle5250]

I think 99% of my youtube viewing are all your channels. You have some of the best content!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:05 - Chapter 1 - Putting the "force" in force fields 6:10 - Chapter 2 - The 4th state of matter 9:25 - Chapter 3 - A 3 pronged attack 12:50 - Chapter 4 - Force fields of the present 14:15 - Wrap up

[@synapse349]

this series is fun, Simon, you are fun to discover stuff with

[@mackenziemoore5088]

Sorry, Simon, but a lot of rubber bullets actually have a steel core to increase stopping power.

[@chefdean7257]

But Magneto shouldn't be able to stop standard ammunition . . . .

[@emmettobrian1874]

Plasma can also be used to make plasma mirrors, and what are mirrors useful for? Light. There go your laser guns. Phasers are particle beams, so they'd also probably interact with plasma. Unfortunately impermeable plasma is only impermeable to cold plasmas and gasses, not solid objects

[@joshuawillard9813]

I do agree that gravity is the weakest of the forces, but I think the fact that you can pick up your phone is a poor example. Life on this (or any, for that matter) planet was designed to overcome the gravity of the respective planet with ease. For example, take any human and put them on Jupiter. We would be crushed because we weren't designed to deal with that much gravity.

[@samb0Ramb0]

You listened to my first and last comment, you have dialled it back and it’s better, but dial it back a little more and the smugness will disappear completely. Lots of love!

[@scooby45247]

if the future is going to be anything worth while, its gonna have to be led by a nation not named U.S.A.. kinda hard to lead the world from the 1600s..

[@delscoville]

I learned about plasma when still quite young. When I was 13, I taken a holography class, and the first day the instructor explained how lasers work. This was a couple decades before solid state lasers, so we were introduced to helium-neon lasers, which requires light generated from the plasma of both those gasses.

[@AvB.83]

Great, another episode of Science Blaze... I mean Science of Science of Fiction. Seriously, a mistake has been made when naming this channel 😅 It's great, it's entertaining, and it's actually a lot of information, but there's also a reasonable amount of blaze, isn't there?

[@joeyblack45k]

The editing on this channel is legit! Really happy we got a science channel. All I really watch on KZbin is Simons channels, Mrballen and cool worlds.

[@charleslindsey6789]

I would add Star Talk with Dr. Tyson, Chuck Nice, and their terrific guests.

[@BlastedKat]

I believe they are much further along on this than we are told. I have a family member that has passed that worked on a "force field" project in the late 80's for the DOD. They had it worked up to stopping a .50 cal round at 100 yards. Without warning all their equipment and documentation was seized, load up and disappeared from the base in Washington state. They were all debriefed and signed statements swearing them to secrecy. Based on the things in the aerospace and weapons technology he told me I would see later in my life that are now common place I wonder just what we really have tucked away in our vault of secrets. One item I cherish to this day is a hand drawn image of a strange object he scratched out on a piece of paper one morning while we were working on our old J 3 Cub dated 1982. He told me to just keep it. I would know what it was one-day. Today we would call this object the F 117.

[@toddkorson8207]

As you pointed out. It always is sir (the future closer than we think)

[@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah]

Ok Simon your getting a bit conqueror Kang here…your either another version of you or your big secret is…your part of a quintuplet set up or something. 🤣 love the content

[@CRMcGee2]

I was taught about plasma in grade school, junior high and high school science classes. I'm reasonably sure I'm older than Simon. Did they stop teaching science in public schools?

[@aaronmicalowe]

I've seen two examples of force fields not shown in this video. One was from footage taken in a lab in Oxford. The area of the field was about the size of a ten pence piece because it required so much energy, that's the most they could manage. But with this they were able to place a tiny tree frog about the size of a finger nail, proving that they could repel neutrally charged matter. One unexpected side effect though was this also cancelled out gravity so the thing flopped all over the place like it was in space. The 2nd example was a German scientist who discovered he could levitate a car on a supercooled surface. The slight problem was the height was only a few millimetres and wasn't very stable, but again proved that under certain extreme circumstances, neutral matter can be repelled. Though, I don't think either one of these could stop projectiles.

[@vashvicious]

Lord of the Blaze, Simon himself. Another channel blessed upon us to watch.

[@michaelpipkin9942]

I like the Stargate story of the force field. They contained a planet, crushed it with the force field to create a singularity. That black hole powered the SuperGate. A gigantic Stargate. Pretty cool.

[@Fullmetalx2fdx]

Just when I thought brain blaze was the most chaotic fact boy would be. Then this fever dream of a show came across my feed… love it!

[@lexalford358]

As a machinist I worked with a plasma cutting machine and I know a couple of things about it you don’t want to be close to it it’s hot it will cut through steel faster than you can believe and you will burn your self if you touch the steel after the cut and standing a few feet away from it when running is similar to being near the kitchen stove when all the burners are on high. Any room with a plasma window will not require a heater even if it is attic winter outside you can have a sauna in side and not need any other heat source for it

[@grandmasterapple6355]

Simon, “oh thats interesting, lets make a whole youtube channel about it” Lmao, truly though, I enjoy the thoroughness of you and your teams content

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

i finally got out ahead of a channel! only 2 weeks old and im already subscribed!

[@wastelander138]

"A forcefield that you can't see through is just a wall." Thanks Factboi 🤣

[@capnstewy55]

Simon was so happy he must have used extra cocaine while making this video, AM I RIGHT PETER!

[@chrisbyron8258]

"a forcefield you can't see through is just a wall" I actually properly lolled at that bit.

[@davidbwa]

I wish you had given more information on how the boing force field is supposed to be generated / function. I also kind of giggled at the thought of - Commercial aviation for ages now: "You have to turn off your cell phones during takeoff / landing because it may interfere with navigation and communications" Boing military projects: "We're going to ramp up so much EM (or whatever it is) that it will stop the shock blasts from enemy attacks"

[@ravoniesravenshir3926]

Simon, there is a material that blocks lasers.... anything highly reflective... though I am sure that might have a limit. So have it have a one way mirror as a front, then photochromic properties to make it MORE reflective as it darkens.

[@curtisblayone7913]

Holy, Simon... another new channel I just found out about. You should make a list of them all so we can make sure to check them all out! Thanks for the countless hours of entertainment, Factboy.

[@hexacarbide268]

Love this more fun and looser language Simone! Well done and very fun. Thx!

[@michaelgautreaux3168]

Congrats for "Whistlers Other"....lol 👍👍 Neat enough. & to think, 50+ years ago, an idea of a hand held device that could transmit & receive audio & visual data around the world. It got laughed at. Star Trek touched our far more than we think. Many thanx cast & crew. Enjoyed the "Rowdier" format. Go Simon!

[@gregbellach8239]

love the new channel , good job Simon , keep it up .

[@DigDougDig]

OMG, I started watching the video before I had coffee. Must pause and get caffeinated! LoL

[@BatouOfNexus]

Shoutouts for mentioning E.E. “Doc” Smith! One of my favorite science fiction authors!

[@phillipj1135]

That's what they were doing in star trek Picard's Trek. The hull plating was definitely polarizing to resist light weapons but I think it did some other fantastic stuff as well.

[@ApertureAce]

The stereo sound of a bullet whizzing by at 0:12 scared the crap outta me haha

[@jrssae]

Loving this new channel

[@mattfleming2287]

Are you kidding me? Another channel? Dude, you are a beast.

[@ChampainShowerz-xm7ic]

This video was both fascinating & entertaining 😍

[@terminalvelocity3132]

The intro to this would have described any given day in my last job.

[@that_hoser_143]

How have I not heard of this channel yet? I think I'm subbed to all of them and watch 75% of your videos (sweet watch time) and I haven't heard of this channel yet

[@joshuahilmer8547]

The post production on this channel is awesome 🤙

[@jacobwilson6296]

OMG.... Simon. I want this job, but I can't compete with that beard! Another channel.

[@UEAdmiral]

The energy. The enthusiasm! Great performance from our host!

[@josee-annejoly6896]

Yay!!! Another Simon channel!! :D You're gonna need a clone soon!

[@mattdowds8505]

11:05 What about adding a 2 way mirror combined with lasers pointed at the incoming lasers with the high point of the outgoing wave & the low point of the incoming wave at the same spot so they cancel each other out? Also, lasers can power photovoltaic cells as found in solar panels without any efficiency losses due to the monochromatic nature of the laser beam, so incoming lasers could potentially help power your forcefield.

[@Ryan_Carter]

I've watch a lot of Simon on various channels, but he seems way more laid back and casual on this one. Love it!

[@randyranderson690]

Simon, that monstrously epic beard keeps me watching

[@LastNameTom]

Dude seems to have more fun making this channel's videos than the others.

[@HyBr1dRaNg3r]

A thought on gravity…Couldn’t it be used to bend space around someone?

[@pohldriver]

I was thinking about that a couple weeks ago while watching Enterprise. Malcom was building a force field generator from theoretical engineering and spare parts he found laying around the ship, and i thought about how could the ship survive warp without a shield. Then I wondered, what was the point of the deflector dish, if they didn't have force fields yet? Then I realized the warp field would act as a force field, bending spacetime around the ship.

[@jamesr.5085]

Years ago I watched a discovery Channel show about dampening fields. Would be good topic for another video. They used a wall of sound to stop an RPG round hitting a Humvee. Created a ionized wall around the building to absorb the shockwave of an explosion. I remember the show because it was about creating a Star Trek deflector array was the talking point that hooked me. I've tried to look it up, but can't find nothing. Good luck, hope to see a video soon.

[@paulmulcahy2250]

One thing that military research into plasma is for the next generation of stealth -- a force field that directs radar and IR viewers away from the aircraft or vehicle.

[@cdc6985]

Simon's channels make up 2/3 of my library now.

[@Adyen11234]

Ok, "a force-field you can't see through is just a wall" is the best joke I've heard this month.

[@phantomechelon3628]

Brilliant video! Can we have one on LIGHT SABRES: How Close Are We?

[@808bigisland]

Forcefields have been witnessed and described in a pamphlet from 1561-1566. All reentry cones on spacers run an ablative solid shield that produces a plasma cone (shield) around the nose and limiting contact of superheated air and heatransfer to the ships structure. Cork makes great plasma.

[@chefdean7257]

Any peer reviewed information to share to verify this wild hypothesis ?