Quote (thesnipa @ 22 Jun 2015 15:42)
I understand that frogs are made up of a plethora of different molecules, all of which are relatively easy to account for as most if not all are known. Hurtling through space however, you would have no idea what you would encounter. Using that process doesn't the electromagnet need to adjust in order to account for materials of different composition or is it simply able to repel all things with no adjustment but varying degrees of repulsion? These are the only two possibilities i see physically possible, both pragmatic for space armor application. Minute adjustments would be impossible at high speeds and varying degrees would mean some things would likely collide with your ship because the magnet doesn't push them away enough.
First of all, you use the word impossible. Not really a productive word (no laws of physics ware broken).
Also you talk about a magnet, the manipulation of the electromagnetic field is not a magnet.
I do not see why adjustments have to be made at all. It is quite possible that it would apply to all sorts of matter. Also, we can quite well account for what we are going to run into in the universe. Our knowladge of the chemical makeup is pretty good already and will be much better in the future. (If we talk about ordinairy matter that ineracts in an ordinairy way).