Could gravitational lensing be used to protect a spaceship from a laser?

Suppose Ship A is being targeted by Ship B, which intends to use a laser weapon in an attempt to destroy Ship A.

Ship A has special technology that allows it to alter gravity (mainly used for generating artificial gravity for the crew and to lessen the effects of inertia when changing direction), but this device also allows it to increase the gravitational pull of the ship, as if it had more mass.

If Ship B points it's laser weapon directly at Ship A and fires, and Ship A created a gravity well (similarly to an interdictor from Star Wars), could the gravity produced by the ship shield it from the laser by redirecting it via gravitational lensing?

And if so, would using this trick inadvertently (on the captain's part) turn Ship A into a black hole?

posted about 5 years ago

Dan Petit‭

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