Is it possible to make a magnetic configuration that will repel all charged particles?
Won't particles moving in the right direction be attracted and you'll irradiate everyone inside when they slam into the shield, with some extra energy from it?
Won't particles moving in the right direction be attracted and you'll irradiate everyone inside when they slam into the shield, with some extra energy from it?
In a lot of situations, the particles will actually spin along helical paths whose net motion is along the magnetic field lines. In the case of Earth, that means that the charged particles eventually make their way to one or the other pole... and as the field lines descend into the atmosphere, those particles create auroras. Neat stuff!
So perhaps there's going to be a cool spaceship with it's own aurora?! Or you could try and channel the particles into a collecting device, bombard them into a fluid, trigger muon generation and try to catalyse a fusion reaction. Probably wouldn't break even but it'd be fun to try.