Is it possible that a real lightsaber could be made within the relatively near future? I heard that to actually make one, there would be several violations of the laws of physics regarding light or energy; could a real lightsaber ever be made? The closest thing that I’ve ever heard to a real lightsaber is the neon light replica that reinactors often have at Wal-Mart or some other place selling photo-ops in costume; but obviously, they are nowhere near a real lightsaber that could cut anything. Has a working lightsaber ever been constructed? The answer is NO.
Obviously the lightsaber violates every law of physics known to man. A real lightsaber could not be constructed because reality follows these laws, which we call physics. For starters, lasers extend for very long distances, until there light is absorbed. So that rules out laser for a lightsaber. I have heard people say that a cylinder is rotated at near c (i.e. the speed of light) and at those speeds, virtual photons are emitted. But that violates the conservation of energy. To move even electrons at this velocity requires a good deal of energy, and to rotate a cylinder at that speed would require ridiculous amount of energy. Since infinite power supplies don’t exist which would violate physics in so many ways, this is impossible. If the lightsaber were to be converted into pure energy (using antimatter) it still wouldn’t have enough energy to function for any amount of time. Also, if two objects moving at near c touched, the torques would be infinitely large.
Actually, yes, some say that lightsabers (or lightsaber-like weapons) can be made in the future, just not now. I saw a program on the History Channel about Star Wars Tech, and it said that it’s possible, but it cannot use light. Since light beams go no infinitely until they are blocked (or something like that), it couldn’t stop after like 4 feet. But, plasma (such as neon) can be held in a tube and put at an extremely hot temperature and have the same effect as a lightsaber. It just couldn’t shoot out when you press a button.
I think engineering a real lightsaber would be possible using nanotechnology (nano-generators) as a power source. The lightsaber runs of a di-atium power cell. This is not an infinite power supply, just several megawatt-hours of stored energy. This power supply is focused through a crystal that sends the energy out in a tight ark that only has light as a by-product of the blade and not the blade itself.
Can that be cited or proved? In reality, that should be physically impossible. Unless there is some kind of restraining field preventing energy/the laser beam from diffusing further than four feet or in any direction. Not to mention, I’m inclined to think that energy of this kind (not laser beam, more like plasma or something) would be incredibly radioactive.
Thus, a real lightsaber construction seems a distant dream in the present. But, a few decades later, who knows…………
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