User blog comment:Ratiu Grigore/Star wars vs.mass effect/@comment-4048340-20110621012034/@comment-1900300-20111208115428

I'm not sold on that. Blasters use high energy particles and kinetic barriers can block even the smallest of metal slugs travelling at incredible speeds. If the blaster bolt was pure energy then i probably would agree with you, but a small, hot, high energy particle is still fast moving matter that a barrier could stop.