I'm new here and not all that familar with the threads already posted and I don't have time to look through them to see, but does anyone think that a lightsaber can really be created?
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
It might be possible, but we certainly don't know how.
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Sure they can. I've got a couple in the back of my time-traveling DeLorian. What say I skip on over to your house and we cut some watermelons up before a rousing game of Running Man? The home version of course.
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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
We'd like to think so, TLE.
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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
well some how you would have to contain the beam - probably electromagnetically... although such em 'tubes' aren't normal? it'd end up more like a stretched sphere?
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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
do lightsabers use lazer technology? how would you get the light to stop at a certain point? wouldn't it run on forever? I dont' think they are possible.
at least with the current laws of physics
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
If you've got some new ones, we'd love to see them.
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Posted by Grand Admiral Reese on :
Real lightsabers would be a good idea, if they could actually build them. But, its not possible to, right now. Give it a few year or centuries and they'll come up with such a thing.
Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
Thanks for the replies.
I think that with the current technology, if we were to attempt it, it'd be a crude thing that would need an external power source and would be big and bulky.
Lasers used in surgery don't go on forever, do they? Take all the parts of current technology, and add a few new ones, and in a few years I think we could.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Uh, laser scalpels don't go on forever because, ideally, at some point in their operational lifetimes they come into contact with something to be cut.
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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
I want to study up on lasers now, wouldn't it be cool to build like a harmless lightsaber for a halloween costume?
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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Well, a lightsabre can't really be a laser. How would they block each other, not to mention blasters? I think it some sort of plasma contained in a force-field that only allows solids to pass through it.
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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Except that the other name Lucus has used for Lightsabres is "Lasersword". Which blows that theory.
Actually, a laser wouldn't go on forever in any circumstances. It'd either hit something, or this little thing we call diffusion would happen.
Anyway, I can't see how useful they'd be. Something that stuns seems moer practical. Unless you've got "the force", all you can use a lightsabre for is cutting open big smelly animals.
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Well, a nine-year-old has referred to them as "laser sword," at least. Actually, lots of non-laser stuff in SW has had a "laser" label.
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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Well, what about a high-power laser beam contained in a force-field, then? That would seem to account for everything.
Oh, and what else could you use a light sabre for, you ask? Why, blocking laser blasts, of course!
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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
The six most popular theories are presented at the following page. I'd have to go with number six too. They're far down on the page, but I suggest you bookmark it 'cuz there are many cool things on this homepage, like saber fighting techniques and an inventory of all sabers. Thanks Frank!
wow! thanks for the incredible link, I did bookmark it!! This explains lightsabers better then any where else! amazing
-FTM
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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I got it from a very reliable source.
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Posted by Mythril (Member # 286) on :
For the light saber, i think it is simmilar in principal to the holodeck, photons held by forcefeilds.
My theroy would require the creation of a stable Electromagentic feild, around a shaft of photonic energy. but this would require a huge powersource, and i dont think it is going to fint in a the handle.
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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
mabey some miniature cold fusion batteries are located in the hilt?
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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Yes, the battery lifetime and energy-level suggests immense power.
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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Oh, and thanks, Gepta! The knowledge that a fellow believer has found new enlightenment makes it all worth it, eh Frank?
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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
I thought a laser was supposed to cut through nearly anything? As to the other theories, I think they could work but power is the major catch. How do you store that much energy in such a small space?
Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
You guys really want to know how to build a lightsaber? or buy one, that works as realisticly as possible with todays technology?
these are the best sites that I have found on the web contianing lightsaber info, I am currently saving up for one of the plasma lightsabers...
-FTM
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Posted by Gepta001 (Member # 231) on :
This forum appears dead
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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :
I don't think the thread was dead until you said it was. It had only been 3 days since the previous reply. I wanted to find out who this omniscient "Frank" was.
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
"omniscient"? Wow.
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