How Does Repulsorlift Technology Work in Star Wars?

[hsdrop]

how about this use some kind of emitters to spew out particles( like microwaves or something close to that) to the ground that bounce off the sand then goes back up to hit the pod making it look like it floats

 

[TheQuietOne]

My mom probably won't let me take apart a microwave.

 

[Noisy Rhysling]

My mom probably won't let me take apart a microwave.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

"I never said. I was never here."

 

[Ryan_m_b]

And when you're considering technology, you need to have some idea how engineers think, and not go with stuff, just because it's cool.

Not really. There's far more popular, successful SF franchises that operate on the Rule-of-Cool than there are that meticulously work out the rules/science behind their tech.

 

[Dream Relics]

I have to agree that Star Wars and Star Trek are vastly different things. The huge fantasy leap that a lot of sci fi space stories use is the introduction of all kinds of materials and elements that do not really exist.

I think maybe that the best bet at this point for imaging the tech of the future would require a very indepth and up to date understanding of quantum physics and string theory as well as the higher dimensional models. and then making wild imaginative leaps from there. At least if you want to try and keep it within the bounds of some vague notion of possibility. The hippies were right all along anyway. It's all vibrations man.

The thing that star wars seems to really fail on to me is the construct of the world around the characters. This becomes more and more evident as the movies progressed. the sense of the economy, especially as regards the fact that that they have all that technology and yet most of the worlds we see are like barren deserts with no manufacturing base and no middle class. IDK, the force awakens just seemed terrible, pointless and boring to me.
Star trek has the advantage of being a tv series. With a tv series you can explore many more dimensions of the reality you are portraying, spend much longer developing characters, and have much more drawn out storylines. I feel that essentially with the level of effects available to tv now, the movie as a medium has almost no point to it. Well, except the MCU stuff. Those have been pretty great.