On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

No; as described in canon, plasma weapons fire a magnetically-contained blob of high-density, high temperature plasma.

Ummmm . . .

You blast a counter plasma 'shockwave' out to interfere with the incoming one.

If the canon plasma blob is magenitically-contained, wouldn't such a shockwave pop the containment? Particularly since it has to be rather like a soap bubble in nature (e.g. it isn't being actively maintained by a physical projector that's somehow riding along in company with the bolt).

Richard Aiken

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