Search for "Electromagnetic Accelerator".
I know what an Electromagnetic Accelerator is, I have built one, and it does not bend light.
In fact, most households have one (although they are getting rarer as the technology that uses them is getting replaced by LCDs), they are the principal behind Cathode Ray Tubes (known as CRTs, Computer Monitors and Televisions).
The CRT uses an "Electron Gun" (a source that emits electrons), and then uses electrical and magnetic forces to accelerate and steer the Electrons (this is the Electromagnetic Accelerator) towards one end of the Tube. In CRT displays, like TVs, the front of the Tube is coated with a material that glows when it has an excess electrons. Although most CRTs are grounded as insulated from the front of the screen, there is however an accumulation of electrons on the screen and this can be detected by the static electricity you can feel on the front of the screen of any CRT.
However, the Electromagnetic Accelerator that I built was a series of electromagnets used in sequence to accelerate a piece of metal (essentially a very simple and pathetically weak coil gun
) over a few centimetres (about 10 cm).
NASA projects holograms into the atmoplane. They don't need to be very high resolution; they just need to be sufficient to keep people from wondering where the shuttle went.
Actually, knowing about holograms would help you here. First of all, Holograms are projected by passing light through them. That is, you have to be able to see the film that the hologram is printed on to see the hologram. So for this to work, you would need the Hologram projectors
in orbit.
They actively monitor the weather, and switch off or dim the holograms as clouds pass by.
But clouds can be local. So although a cloud is blocking my view of the "shuttle", my friend 10 or so kilometres away would not have their view blocked.
For this to work, there would need to be a projector every few kilometres coving the entire world.
Have you confirmed these projectors exist!? Have you actually seen one!?
No.
It's wrong.
Prove it.
Actually we should have the same requirements of each. If we need to prove it, so do you or we have to dismiss this entire line of reasoning, from both sides, as pointless.
However, burden of proof is always upon the person making the original claim. As you made the original claim that these projectors exist, the burden of proof is upon you. This is well established debating practice, and not something I made up.
Or a computer programmer who created an AI that could be installed onto various computers around the world to monitor the holographic projectors, and was subsequently executed to prevent him going public with the information. See: Alan Turing.
As a computer programmer, and one interested in AI, the use of AI in this circumstance would be the wrong method. A computer AI could not repair damaged physical components without help from humans (it might be able to tell them what went wrong, but it could not fix it. Also, over time the image projector would degrade (if it is a hologram or other optically based system it would fade over time). Also, as new "spacecraft" are being developed, the images in the system would need to be updated to match the profiles of these new craft which could not be done without the input of humans.
So even in a best case scenario, this could not be completely driven by an AI.
The programmer would have had to establish a reputation for their work, and this would ahve given them some fame in the AI community (or why else would the governments chosen him/her to program the AI if they didn't know if the programmer could do it?). The death of such a person would not go unrecorded. Also, for a project that large, there would have to be a team of programmers which would number in the hundreds. These people would have had to base their work on others that came before them. So not only would the governments have to assassinate the actual programmers, but also the people they based their work on.
This would easily be several hundreds of people assassinated, if not thousands. This would also have to be done before any of them leaked this information, so would have to take place over a short period of time. This would not go unnoticed or unrecorded.