I was wondering... consider if you took the shell of a spaceship, and then created a negative electric field, and then placed metal plates on top of this field, and welded them all together so you have a solid shield that is held a length away from the ship itself by magnetic fields.
Nn theory, assuming you turned the energy of the electric field up, and the plates weren't penetrated, wouldn't this make a very effective shield?
Please give me more information so I can do more research on this idea!!