Can the light saber be made?

reply to post by intelgurl

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damn man thats great, i never thought of that, your idea makes my idea look like child's play!!!

Is there a laser type beam that is powerful enough to but through things?

If so perhaps it would be possible to angle two of these beams to meet about 4 feet from the tip of your handle?

Then maybe use the principle of constructive and destructive interference to stop the "blade"?

That is of course if you get passed the miniturization of the power source.

Anything is possible. Our dreams actually drive invention. I know of a guy that did a paper on this concept. Many of todays toys and gadgets were dreamed up in sci-fi books and novels. Literature and imagination drive reality and progress.

What if you make a 'ring' of lasers on the outside of the blade pointed straight up, and aim another 'ring' of lasers on the inside of this cilinder to cross the other lasers at a specific distance from the hilt?
These lasers should be set so that they'd both deflect towards the middle of the blade, where the hilt will magnetically pull the energy back inside of it by the usage of a narrow magnetic/gravitic field to recharge it's own energy supply.
That way the saber would lose little to no energy when no action is going on and only lose energy when it hits something.

They are already thinking of creating micro-black holes by bumping matter into eachother very fast, so why not use those?

Downsides:
-You'd still not be able to hit anything mirror-like.
-You'll have to charge the saber once in a while

I wrote up an idea, for the engineering of an actual lightsaber; however, until I post the information, I found a picture which may be relevant:


src:www.tms.org...








[edit on 27/8/2008 by agent violet]

it is very possiball to create a lightsaber. just not made out of "laser" but plasma. it is impossiball to heat light up to that degree of heat to cut through things so quick. also humans can not harness light to limit the length of the saber. plasma can be harnessed to limit the length of the saber. same with the blaster pistols in star wars, plasma not laser.
in space shuttles they are replacing the windows with larger thiner and stronger plasma widows. i hope i helped you guys to realize not laser but plasma!

It's not possible right now but it will be, I've been looking up on how to build one and there are several teams working on the Lightsaber, one person claims he made one but I won't believe him unless he posts up a video, he says it's not full scale though, the biggest problem in making a Lightsaber is getting the Laser to stop. In order to do that you need to generators in your lightsaber, so the laser can stop, sorry, I'm not an expert on this, I've just been reading, I'll let you guys know if a real one is made.

E-mail this dude, he is the guy who claimed to of made a real one:
downey@ca.inter.net


Here is the link as well:
Real Lightsaber Link Here

Hope this helps a little, see ya

[edit on 11-9-2008 by kkahluadarkj]

reply to post by agent violet

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If anyone makes a Lightsaber first it probably will be you, can you keep in touch with me, I really want to know if you succeed, here is my E-mail:
kkahluadarkj@yahoo.com

See ya

reply to post by kkahluadarkj

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Read the whole thread and you’ll see that he didn’t.


Funny thread though

Edit to add:

ROFLMAO

[edit on 9/12/2008 by defcon5]

There is a thread already posted about this subject..im sure there is lots of info on that www.abovetopsecret.com...

Most of the desktop computers we have today are completely beyond the imagination of the people that built all of the 'super computers' of the past. The only different between fantasy and reality is the availability of the means to get there.
If there was one thing humanity should have learned from Nicholas Telsa by now is that what can be done with energy is limitless. Technology in the 1920s also had more promise than the technological junk that's currently being puked out.
What's impossible today is tomorrow's common experience. Never account humanity to learn from its past though. We'll have lightsabers if and when humanity finally get pas the idea there is such a thing as limitation.

Two things that always made Star Trek and Star Wars so enjoyable and diverse. When someone from those universes saw something they couldn't themselves do, they didn't say, "That's impossible!" They asked who, what, when, where, why, and how. The only one that ever did make that statement in the whole of those series was Luke and Yoda cracked him over the head till he didn't say that again. Wise old thing.

[edit on 28-10-2008 by Old_One]

Technically we could but then again really we couldn't. And to be realistic it wouldn't be a "light" saber, we could make a "plasma" saber though. Light though wouldn't work because for one it doesn't stop at a certain point like a light saber light travels on and on and technically cannot cut through things. We could though take a tube and put plasma in it which when heated would glow neon very much like the real thing which i have seen online but in order to not only make it shine but to cut through metal if we had something that could heat the plasma in the tube to temperatures of up to 200,000,000 degrees then it would be able to cut through metal and pretty much any substance on earth. It would also repel another plasma light saber because plasma particles repel each other so it would be much like a light saber. BUT with our current technology we can't get things even close to being that hot and even if you did it would be so hot it would be more of a hazard to you than to your opponent so for now we'll just have to accept the shiny neon glass tubes we have.