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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?
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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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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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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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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.
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.
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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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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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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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