American Scientists "Accidentally" Invent Lightsabers

[Hop2089]

I wonder what next they would do with condoms

Would light emitting condoms even be safe to wear, I wouldn't wear them but buy some as a weird collector's item.

 

[Foxi4]

Y'know lasers? Really highly concentrated light energy that we direct at things to cut or blind them. This is basically a solid laser beam that can hit things. The edges will be epic-level hot and will slice you up like butter.

You're overestimating light... in general. Moreover, we don't know much about this all-new "state" of photons. Heat doesn't come from nowhere y'know. I'm assuming that there would be some heat created as the article mentions photons interacting with and deflecting each other and if they do act like matter, the friction this causes probably would create heat... but I'm not sure if we could call that "being superheated".

 

[ßleck]

Would light emitting condoms even be safe to wear, I wouldn't wear them but buy some as a weird collector's item.

 

[bowser]

Screw that, I want a Death Star

 

[Maxternal]

Y'know lasers? Really highly concentrated light energy that we direct at things to cut or blind them. This is basically a solid laser beam that can hit things. The edges will be epic-level hot and will slice you up like butter.

Sound to my more like trying to burn through butter with a laser pointer.

Also, since no light actually reaches your eyes you wouldn't really be able to see the beam EXCEPT a bright flash when you first try to cut something with it and all that light crashes into your "victim", bouncing, lost, our of control into your surroundings as light normally does.

MAYBE if you had you had enough light built up in that beam you could manage a reasonable burn mark where it first makes contact but since all the light would be "used up" instantly, it would take some time to "charge" your beam back up with more light.

 

[Silterpy]

I can Imagen this happing

 

[Foxi4]

Sound to my more like trying to burn through butter with a laser pointer.

Also, since no light actually reaches your eyes you wouldn't really be able to see the beam EXCEPT a bright flash when you first try to cut something with it and all that light crashes into your "victim", bouncing, lost, our of control into your surroundings as light normally does.

MAYBE if you had you had enough light built up in that beam you could manage a reasonable burn mark where it first makes contact but since all the light would be "used up" instantly, it would take some time to "charge" your beam back up with more light.

Seeing that the individual molecules interact with each other and bounce, I would assume that they are visible within whatever medium they are stored in, much like a laser pointer is visible in smoke since it bounces off the smoke particles.

 

[Silterpy]

Seeing that the individual molecules interact with each other and bounce.

that what think, also the light would probably be super condensed, so millions if not billions of light photons(with mass) bouncing off of each other would most likely create a lot of heat

 

[Maxternal]

I followed the "how to make ..." link at the top of the source page there and the last paragraph was interesting
http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/oct/01/jedi-lightsaber

Spoiler: Spoilers spoil your fun.

So is a lightsaber around the corner? The photonic molecules existed for a fleeting moment in a cloud of atoms that is a fraction of a millimetre long, colder than outer space, enclosed in a metal tank, and surrounded by tables bearing a tonne of equipment. "I don't know what to say. The lightsaber is fictitious," says Firstenberg. "We don't know what the physics is behind a lightsaber. I don't know how George Lucas did it."

I LOL'd

 

[tbgtbg]

Lightsabers? In real life?

Now where does the Second Amendment fall when it comes to laser swords?

You have the right to bear arms, not the right to slice arms off.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Am I the only one who prefers the beam katana from No More Heroes?

Also, anybody here used to call them life savers when you were younger? It seems like that was also a fitting name.

 

[Foxi4]

Am I the only one who prefers the beam katana from No More Heroes?

Also, anybody here used to call them life savers when you were younger? It seems like that was also a fitting name.

...you mean the mints?

No, I don't think anyone called them that... There must be some cleaver childhood reasoning there but... I'm not just not seeing it.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

...you mean the mints?

No, I don't think anyone called them that...

They're not mints! And also this was like when I was before 10, or just turned 10. I had never seen the original star wars and my first one was.... sadly... Episode 1. But I didn't mind it because it was a pretty cool day.

 

[Foxi4]

They're not mints! And also this was like when I was before 10, or just turned 10. I had never seen the original star wars and my first one was.... sadly... Episode 1. But I didn't mind it because it was a pretty cool day.

Mints and hard candy then, or so says Wikipedia.

 

[The Catboy]

Help! I accidentally build a Lightsaber!

How does one simply accidentally build something like that?

 

[tbgtbg]

Mints and hard candy then, or so says Wikipedia.

Don't forget wint-O-green (technically not a mint)

Anyway I saw it when I was 3 and don't think I ever called them life savers, certainly not when I was 10

 

[Bladexdsl]

now invent the sex-bot

 

[Sop]

Has science gone too far?

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

Scientists please work on homing lasers next!

Sweet sweet homing lasers, what's not to love.

 

[Maxternal]

Oh, and

Spoiler: Just checked and it's not EoF so this goes in a spoiler