Gravitational effects

> Paul Baughman writes ...
>
>Gravity for stopping lasers?  This would work for missles, maybe, via tidal
>effects, but not lasers.  The G-field would provide a doppler shift to the

Well, perhaps everything isn't exactly real-world scientific (like, let's
not get into physics flaming!) but you remember the Einstein experiment
that involved watching the sun eclipse a star, and they proved that gravity
had an effect on photons ... well ... the idea here is just to stop the
laser hitting properly - anything that deflects it by even a small amount
is good, as lasers have to hit parallel to a surface to do the most
damage.

Basically, the shields throw such a huge spanner in the works that if
they don't totally negate incoming weapons, they at least screw up the
aiming, detonation and so on ...

(Mind you, that's AOK for 1/2 man fighters, but how do they protect
 the Leviathan ships ? They're several kilometers long ... Hmmm ...)

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