is it possible to make a reel lightsaber like star wars?


like a energy blade thats cuts through things faster and easier than a sword.

Technically yes it is possible to create a lightsaber. If you look at the designe of what it actually is, it is a high energy wave length such as a laserbeam that is controlled in a certain distance. To this day there are high powered laserbeams that can cut through thick steel and can cut through skin. But as for blocking bullets.. I dont think its possible unless the laserbeam as a very intense temperature that will melt it in a split second, otherwise no chance.

[quote]Technically yes it is possible to create a lightsaber.[/quote]

Oh. Do tell how it is technically possible? What sort of power source will generate that much power? And how, exactly, does one go about getting a light beam to end at a point about 1 yard or so from the emitter?

Please do not post links to internet sites that claim to have plans for such devices. Post links to actual working devices or other sources to support your claim that it is possible.

Lightsabers do not = lasers. You can't simplify it that much. Yes, thats probably the closest thing we have to a lightsaber, but don't suggest our lasers are anywhere near what a lightsaber is.

Yes, there are very high powered laser beams out there right now. They are massive and require huge power sources.

No a very technically detailed explanation, but fairly good:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/LightSaber/LightSaber.html

Posted to death already. Try the find feature.

Doesn't work unless you're a Jedi Knight. Know any?



It's a SciFi prop. Current science and technology can't make it work and can only take an educated guess if a real weapon is possible and how it would have to work.

History Channel did a show on StarWars tech and discussed how problematic a lightsaber is.

yes, but on that same show they said that a person could use plasma. do all of us a favor and some one look into it.

Program said they might be able to use plasma and the machinery to produce such a beam is huge and the operating temperature would fry the person holding the weapon.

Something else they didn't cover? Don't think there's much else to look into.

Star Wars is *fantasy*, not science-fiction. I think that says enough.

The only problem with a plasma lightsaber is that the machines used to make plasma are huge. But if you remember, the first computers were the size of city blocks, and now they have more powerful ones than those that are the size of a deck of playing cards. So if there is anything we can learn, it is that lightsabers, or something like lightsabers, are possible in the next twenty years or so.

What an absurd conclusion to come to.

Heat is heat whether it is in the dinosaur-times, the present, or the distant future. Something that powerful and held in your hands like a sword would BURN YOU HORRIBLY when you used it. Unless we all evolve heat-proof skin in the next 20 years.

Yeesh. Fantasy means "not real." Not based in any logical or realistic science. MAKE-BELIEVE.

I love Light saber Posts. They are so much fun to tear asunder.
The power supply would be the size of a Mack Truck
There is no known form of EM radiation that is a solid IE the blade of a light saber would pass through each other no known form of EM radiation is solid.
The generated from such a device would cause the holder to burst into flames.
There is no known form of EM radiation that behaves in the manner of a light saber

We already have the technolidgy, but the government is keeping it a secret from us.

Still belezeebub we are making huge jumps in science every year. So this should be possible in 20 years, or it is more likely that in 20 years everyone will have forgotten this silly topic

[quote]Still belezeebub we are making huge jumps in science every year. So this should be possible in 20 years, or it is more likely that in 20 years everyone will have forgotten this silly topic[/quote]

IMHO its far more likely that a Pig will fly then it is for a Real working lightsaber, and in twenty more years this topic will be posted 5633 more times.

Hey there is a video game called No more Heroes. Could that kind of a lightsaber aka a "Beam Katana" Be possible. because there is a device on the end that could stop the beam that would have to have an extremely intense amount of energy to be an effective weapon. I mean, a laser will go forever until it hits an opstruction. Could there be an energy weapon like this in the future

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Originally posted by Skoolier1:
We already have the technolidgy, but the government is keeping it a secret from us.

Dude I love conspiracy myths as much as any other science nerd/geek. I just can't see the govornment not using such a weapon on the front lines, i mean standard issued gear is still a regular old knife.

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Originally posted by JTMAN95:
The only problem with a plasma lightsaber is that the machines used to make plasma are huge. But if you remember, the first computers were the size of city blocks, and now they have more powerful ones than those that are the size of a deck of playing cards. So if there is anything we can learn, it is that lightsabers, or something like lightsabers, are possible in the next twenty years or so.

Star Wars = Sci-fi fantasy]
It is old world sword and sorcery with rivets, nuts, and bolts