I know that you can make a lightsaber with a high power laser beam and a block at the end, but is it possible to have a concentrated beam of laser that can only go so far and all that jazz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????????????????????????????
2007-07-19 04:56:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
With today's technology, or even the technologies that are on the horizon, definitely not. But 100 or 200 years from now, we can only imagine what new discoveries will be made that might make something like a light saber possible.
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2007-07-19 05:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main problem with a lightsaber is restricting the length of the beam. You could make an insanely powerful laser and cram it into a lightsaber handle (theoretically) but it's near impossible to control the length of the beam. Some other options like nanotechnology might be more effective than lasers perhaps, but I don't know much about them.
2016-05-17 10:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by marian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in the way the movies show them. You'd have to have something on the end to stop the laser, otherwise the beam would go on forever. Its cutting strength would diminish over distance, but i don't think that uncertainty would be desirable. I think the most realistic version of a light saber would look like those long fluorescent lamps that you can hold, where the bulb would be the beam. Also, since we have projectile weapons a glorified sword won't really help much. I bet it'd be used more as a fancy cutting torch than an actual weapon.
2007-07-19 05:02:06 · answer #3 · answered by Dan Theman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you mean by a lightsaber. The toys used in the Star Wars movie seem to be remarkably ineffective as weapons. It is possible to build a weapon that can throw enough energy to cause damage, but it would not be portable.
2007-07-19 05:07:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
contain a plasma beam in an electromagnetic containment field. Similar to how fusion reactors work.
2007-07-19 05:08:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who needs a light saber...give me a 357 Magnum any day.
2007-07-19 07:00:08 · answer #6 · answered by gatorbait 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its possible. but instead of using a lasser it would be a force field. consentrated energy in a controled enviroment.
2007-07-19 05:03:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
doubt it, how would you get the beam to stop? It's light after all...
2007-07-19 04:58:47 · answer #8 · answered by mr_peepers810 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, quite impossible, since laser beams are light and u cant get them to stop travelling can u?
2007-07-19 05:00:50 · answer #9 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not really
2007-07-19 04:59:53 · answer #10 · answered by carmelo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋