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So yeah, lightsabers could be a real thing

CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
edited September 2013 in Off-Topic
This:
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/scientists-create-real-life-star-wars-lightsaber-145000857.html

I accept that this is only Yahoo news, and not a peer-reviewed journal, but nonetheless. Real Frikkin' Lightsabers(tm) could exist, and now we have the physics to start working on it.

I sense a disturbance in the force, as if a billion Star Wars fans thought, "I'd Kickstarter the hell out of that!" at the same time...
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  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    Interesting article, thanks.
  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    edited September 2013
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSNubaa7n9o
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_Hq1f8-0E
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLcEYbAdyxk
  • KamigoroshiKamigoroshi Member Posts: 5,870
    Lightsabers are from yesterday. Me, I'm still patiently waiting for instant cassettes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWmVlgIR2HA
  • CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
    Having a read of the article again, it's more that photons can interact in a system similar to a solid than anything else. So you could get lightsabers clashing into one another. Lightsabers is just the only way that most media outlets can imagine this. It also offers the tantalising possibility of hard-light holograms in some distant and strange future.
  • DrugarDrugar Member Posts: 1,566
    That would probably be the first Kickstarter to reach a billion trillion dollars.

    Also, nerd life expectancy would drop dramaticly as limbs fly everywhere the day after release.
  • meaglothmeagloth Member Posts: 3,806
    Someone get a physicist.
    This is some serious crap.
  • MathsorcererMathsorcerer Member Posts: 3,042
    Corvino said:

    It also offers the tantalising possibility of hard-light holograms in some distant and strange future.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFrFt5gKFw

    I cannot be the only person who went here when I saw the phrase "hard light hologram".

  • CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
    They don't get much more strange and distant than Red Dwarf.
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    I'd totally back this up. The nerd in me screams for a light saber. I regret nothing. :')
  • KaltzorKaltzor Member Posts: 1,050
    I'd rather have then concentrate on making mechs reals... But that might just be me...
  • Magnus_GrelichMagnus_Grelich Member Posts: 361
    Also brings the technology for Mass Effect closer to us.:)
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    @Magnus_Grelich: As long as it doesn't mean red, green or blue explosions. Why did nobody think about a purple one? :/
  • WilburWilbur Member Posts: 1,173
    I'll be impressed when they find a person with real life Jedi Powers.
  • Magnus_GrelichMagnus_Grelich Member Posts: 361
    @Kitteh_On_A_Cloud: Ha!
    I'll be honest, I liked the revised ending. Not the best, and still left questions, but better certainly than it previously was. Still, EA should take their dirty little fingers out of things they don't understand.
  • DancingBugbearDancingBugbear Member Posts: 118
    @Dee Beat the trolls with a flame blade for making an off topic post.
  • BattlehamsterBattlehamster Member Posts: 298
    Judging by the sound of it, these sound way more fun than having actual lightsabers. If I read the science right, these pretty much sound light light blade that can only "Clash" against other light blades with the same photons. Meaning, you could fight your brother and not have to worry about accidentally severing a limb.

    When does this hit market again? I'll take mine in purple. xD
  • DancingBugbearDancingBugbear Member Posts: 118
    If you come around with your sham promotions, I'll light a stick on fire, and beat you trolls.
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    @gcg
    I think you might be confused as what a "troll" is.
  • DancingBugbearDancingBugbear Member Posts: 118
    @Dee
    They talk about inconsiderate things, and make unfounded comments, without regard for actualities of the situation. And are susceptible to sticks and fire.
  • DeeDee Member Posts: 10,447
    Then I think you may be misinterpreting what other people are posting in this thread. I don't see any trolling going on here.
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    @gcg Who's making unfounded commets? ;)
  • DancingBugbearDancingBugbear Member Posts: 118
    Scam advertisements with in-cognisant description, and people talking about going around heralding them, is undesirable activity. If you don't want your page eaten by trolls, I suggest we set up a protective red flame barrier.
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    @gcg: Oi, I ain't a troll. I'm a cat on a cloud. I thought the difference was clear enough! D;
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    I can't follow your line of thinking, @gcg. Anyway, I suggest you take it to PMs with a moderator, as you're taking this quite off topic. lol
  • DancingBugbearDancingBugbear Member Posts: 118
    edited October 2013
    @FinneousPJ

    Post from Corvino
    The first description seems to suggest some sort of plasma field, with electrons in it which supposedly make light. Making a firm form out of a gas is simple with an electric field, magnets, or fans. Electrons tend to be attracted to most large things.

    Post from belgarathmth
    The videos are just unrelated things, mostly promoting their graphics, and jabbering. It just says to put a laser into the plasma field. That would superheat the particles, and they would quickly separate, under the prior methods, unless a much stronger force was made to surround it. That would essentially make a hard object, that's maybe hot. You could heat up a stick, and heat it with high temperature fuel through a hose, or spray it out, for the same effect.
    OneAngryMushroom said:

    You know. With the application of enough technology, any sci-fi can become reality.

    Just beat yourself over the head with the VCR enough times.
    Corvino said:

    Having a read of the article again, it's more that photons can interact in a system similar to a solid than anything else. So you could get lightsabers clashing into one another. Lightsabers is just the only way that most media outlets can imagine this. It also offers the tantalising possibility of hard-light holograms in some distant and strange future.

    A hard thing can be made to light up. The excellent display of this in the video need not be mentioned. Making a firm form out of small particals is simple with an electric field. Small particles can be sent out from fewer small parts that have a simple structure image in them, and can be lit up.
    Battlehamster said:

    Judging by the sound of it, these sound way more fun than having actual lightsabers. If I read the science right, these pretty much sound light light blade that can only "Clash" against other light blades with the same photons. Meaning, you could fight your brother and not have to worry about accidentally severing a limb.

    When does this hit market again? I'll take mine in purple. xD

    This mixes up bright sticks with hot plasma or gas.

    A hot stick could do the same thing. You could make it fold up, so it's extendible from a small handle.

    *not for sensitive viewers*
    Here's a quick way to become a yogi, or giggy, or whatever it is your going on about. Take a blast producing rod, call it a fire-stick, hold it up to you face, and press the activation lever. You'll ascend to a beyond-physical state quickly.
    * - - - - - - - - - - - - *

    A bunch of yappers going on about incoherent things is something I don't need.

    Unless you want superheated morphing plasma forms searing through things around, I'll stick to my blow torch and stick, and knife, and maybe I'll get a flash-light some time, if I score it rich somehow, but I hear there's demons in them that disrupt and tare at everything they come across. I'll have to make sure to use protection from evil before using it. Though, that will probably destroy the affiliation with everyone affiliated with producing the flash-light.

    And
    @Kamigoroshi can still join me with a can of gas.


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  • DancingBugbearDancingBugbear Member Posts: 118
    @FinneousPJ
    Mission achieved.
    It's a run of blithery activity, that leads towards unwanted rancourousness. @Dee, as a delicate flower, can perhaps put a zone of sweet air over it.
  • CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
    @gcg I've had a look at a couple of other sources aside from the one in the original post. It's not getting a hard object to light up, more the possibility of making a hard object out of photons.

    It looks like using a small cloud of rubidium atoms controlled by lasers and held within a vacuum it is currently possibly to slow light down to below 1000m/s. This created a previously unseen state where photons appear to get very close and interact with each other.

    While it's a bit premature of one of the researchers to effectively say "this could mean lightsabers, folks" it's still a bit interesting.

    Text of another more science-y article here:
    http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/oct/01/jedi-lightsaber
  • Magnus_GrelichMagnus_Grelich Member Posts: 361
    @gcg If I may be so bold, what in the crap are you talking about?
  • DancingBugbearDancingBugbear Member Posts: 118
    @Corvino The hard object is made by atoms held by lasers. It probably wouldn't work from a single source. The lasers heat up the atoms. A ball, with an stationary heated shape of gas inside it might be made. Light in the visible spectrum doesn't have a lot of energy. You might be able to make a super high explosive play ball, or a high explosive recreational canister, or you could whip up some nitrated fat base in your sink for a few yards of beans a litre. Jiddy admirers might like tossing those around.

    A similar thing could be done by heating up a rod. Light passes slowly through a solid, too. Electrons also circuit in metal.

    You might want to be careful with people with sensitive skin, as it might be harsh on them. Recommended, iron skins, with a large shield, or ghost skin. Be careful of Trax. He doesn't like these things being distributed around, despite their usefulness in getting rid of trolls who bring up unsubstantial topics.
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