Actually, I would like to think of shields as made up of invisble matter or particles. These particles or matter are attracted to something like energy or some sort of kinetic force.
When a fighter fires laser blasts at another fighter, the shield particles get attracted to it and start concentrating themselves at the approximate location where the laser is bound to hit the shield. That's why when the laser finally hits the shield, that spot on the shield, or in FreeSpace, shield quadrant lights up because the particles get so concentrated there it becomes visible to the eye.
However, as the shield absorbs more and more lasers and other kinetic weapons, the particles slowly die. That's why the shield "weakens". Only by avoiding getting hit somemore and letting the shield generators regenerate the number of shield particles back to normal proportions will the shield be "strengthened".
What do you guys think of this theory?
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