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The article is about an electrostatic field. That's far from sci-fi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_field


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function_seven01/21/2025

I was clarifying the sense I was using the term "force field". Not a generic field of electromagnetic forces, but the fantastical one that can contain arbitrary matter.

Like the one described in the article, that a person was leaning against and could not pass through. If this were something that we could reproduce, it would have awesome real-world uses. Like a real hover board! Or the best anti-theft protection for my parked car.

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