What is "force-field"

Usage examples of "force-field".

Lawlor drive and landing-grid forcefields were formed by not dissimilar generators, and ball-lightning force-fields were in the same general family of phenomena.

And the same is true for all of the other forms that energy and momentum can take—other particle eruptions and annihilations, wild electromagnetic-field oscillations, weak and strong force-field fluctuations—quantum-mechanical uncertainty tells us the universe is a teeming, chaotic, frenzied arena on microscopic scales.

The Klingon cautiously approached the door, shimmering with a force-field barrier, as Leah Brahms warily approached him.

There were truly potent force-fields capable of compressing solid rock into a state of degenerate matter.

Out here only a few wealthy eccentrics had force-field bubbles over their houses to screen out the elements.

It was a thermo needle beam which was propagated in a burst of high-peak intensity thin a force-field diffraction grating so that it was split up into tens of thousands of 1-mm beams.

After some time they decided that there were, in operation, a titanic magnetic field combined with an equal electric field, the field of the planet itself, and some sort of force-field that was far weaker, so buried in the mass of the planet, magnetic, and electric fields as to be unrecognizable.

The result was that they knew now that at least five major planets revolved about Paarool, and further, that one was inhabited by a highly advanced race, for their instruments had shown powerful force-field effects that could not be natural.

From one hung a thick coil of rope, from the other what could only be a force-field unit and, more miraculous still, a wrist comunit.

If I say so myself, the last two hours had honed me to such a fine force-field edge that the description of Flora took on a kind of poetry that seemed to be coming from some wellspring of masculine force deep in the subbasement of my unconscious.

The latter were teleportation devices which did not require any equipment on the receiving end-in other words, with these it was possible to transmit an atomic bomb into the hold of an enemy spaceship, even though the enemy might be otherwise well-protected by force-fields.

Like a soap bubble he drifted silently up along the flickering force-fields surfacing the wall with the fog ceiling retreating above his head and closing in again under his feet as he slid silently upward.

The seventy-kilometer superrotational layer could blanket the entire planet in volcanic fallout in just four days—and that was without the extra heat-induced acceleration factor already introduced by the force-field network itself.

He saw the inner swirlings within force-fields that were the others in the circle.

But, turned loose into a grid's force-field, even three or four such charges would work havoc with the grid's equipment.