Building a Lightsaber Is Possible, They Did It Already

okay let's jump forward a hundred years to the year 2120. come on play along you're in the stands for the finals of your beloved sport fencing your two favorites are going up against each other lightsaber noises are the most intense sounds in the room you can almost feel the walls vibrate plasma going up against plasma the contestants are both wearing protective gear made from a material plasma can't cut through that's the sound they make when they're cutting through air steel fencing swords are a thing of the past lightsabers are what's cool now just the other day during thanksgiving you could see your neighbor from your window he was using his own lightsaber to cut through his turkey all his knives must fit dirty he sent you a picture afterwards and as it turns out it ended up being a little too well done after the heat from the plasma well back to this year lightsabers are still not real but they are something everyone would love to get their hands on they're about as futuristic and fun as swords can get imagine a blade made of plasma that comes out and retracts whenever you want and the only thing you have to carry around is a handle in star wars they were also called laser swords well it makes sense remember those tiny little lasers you played around with when you were a kid those were fun they were the size of your finger and could help you point at anything they had that red light that came out from one end cats went nuts for them too they still do if you have a laser and you point it at the wall with your cat paying attention it'll instantly run at it if you turn it off they'll be all confused and start looking everywhere for it some dogs too in the movies lightsabers are used both offensively and defensively there's no need for a shield like in ancient times they also cut through almost everything except other lightsabers still the one thing star wars universe has that we don't is the material that makes lightsabers possible kyber crystals those don't actually exist technically building a lightsaber is possible although hard since you know we're not jedis or mandalorians the first thing you need to make your lightsaber dream a reality is plasma and you might be wondering what exactly is plasma it's superheated matter and often called the fourth state of matter the first three states are solid liquid and gas plasma makes up over 99 percent of our visible universe at night you can see it in the form of stars nebulas and those lights you can see at the north and south poles it's controllable too with the help of magnetic forces you can mold and shape plasma but for it to work like it does in the movies you'd need very large and bulky equipment and that wouldn't exactly fit in your hand we don't know for sure what size it would have to be but imagine it's the size of a car all excited you tell your friends you have a lightsaber but it's in your garage still very impressive you all walked your house open your garage door and there it is your very own bulky large plasma equipment thing it has a switch on the side for the plasma to come out you press it and a two foot beam of blue plasma flies up to the ceiling your friends are in awe it's the first time they've seen the fourth state of matter after you turn it off you can see the spot on the ceiling where the plasma hit it left a mark it's definitely not safe to store outside what if someone tries to play with it this equipment would also need to be as powerful as a nuclear reactor let's leave those at the nuclear power plants for now there are people who already built a somewhat realistic lightsaber or protosaber the way they did this was by having the plasma eject out of a metal handle they had to carry around a backpack to fuel the plasma otherwise it wouldn't have worked the key ingredient for this whole thing is laminar flow laminar flow is when the particles of a fluid all flow in parallel lines the other type of flow is more wacky scientific word which is where the particles flow randomly and in opposite directions if it wasn't for laminar flow the plasma from the lightsaber would take off in any direction it felt like the lightsaber's fuel is liquid gas which combined with oxygen and a spark allows the plasma to flow in a straight line and to be controlled so to start with the gas from the fuel backpack flows in a laminar flow which is then directed into the lightsaber's handle the fuel has to be highly concentrated then you need a spark after this the plasma will be ejected from the handle and that's it you've got a lightsaber this plasma beam will burn at insanely high temperatures which means it can cut through a lot of stuff or you know burn it all this means is that technically a real life lightsaber is possible but you'd have to lug around a massive backpack with fuel and combine it with oxygen to ignite it which is a very dangerous thing to do but unlike in the movies it's not sturdy like a sword would be it's a flow of plasma and when you try to cut things with it the plasma flow won't stay exactly the same another option for a real life lightsaber is a proto saber proto sabers need fuel to operate and are very dangerous too simply put they're really hot blades that burn so bright that have almost the same appearance as a lightsaber now if you still want a lightsaber but don't want to take the risks that come with it awesome led lightsabers exist they're fairly simple usually they're just a tube that contains an led and when you press the button it turns it on it shines bright like a real lightsaber some of them will make the zoom noise too they're a thousand times safer and you can even buy them as gifts there's also the option of a laser lightsaber it's just a handle like a normal laser but a lot more powerful than the ones you used to play with these ones come with warnings because of how powerful they are you might even have to wear glasses to protect your eyes they can even be powerful enough to cut through stuff okay but what if you just want to play with plasma but not a lightsaber you still can there are plasma globes you can buy and play around with a plasma globe is a glass sphere that contains a lot of odorless colorless single atom gases that won't explode or anything they have an electric conductor in the middle and when you feed some voltage through it you get plasma inside the globe because your body conducts electricity when you place your hand on one of these globes energy flows into it it's pretty cool because you can see plasma in action with the help of a small container bam technology when real lightsabers come around we're probably going to be at a place in time where spaceships might actually exist i mean real spaceships okay picture this you wake up one morning feeling like you want to take a trip but not to anywhere on earth you've already seen too much of it so you pick up your lightsaber handle and put it safely in your pocket then you take a look at your wristband tap it twice and your holographic phone pops out book me a seat two weeks from now on the next earth to mars flight please and you go about your daily life you walk out the door and get on your wheel this motorbike it has jet propellers where the wheel should be and they swirl around so you're able to control the direction you're going after taking the high up in the sky invisible road made just for flying vehicles you arrive at your office you sit on your comfortable chair ready to get some work done today you're in the mood for something different and you decide you want to work in paris no worries you turn on the holographic scenery and there you are two weeks later you embark on the spaceship you bought a ticket for earlier that month ready for a new adventure wait a life hey doesn't that guy over there look like arnold schwarzenegger

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Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 07 2021