Lightsaber technology has been invented! Finally!

JBod · 26 Sep 2013 at 20:56

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...ts-create-lightsaber-technology-29613424.html

Ok so a real light saber is a long way off but the science is fascinating I think you'll all agree. I know there are some science folks on here, so how feasible is this?

Theophany · 26 Sep 2013 at 21:07

Finally I can be the jeteye I was born to be. And not one of them loljedi either, a proper hologrind jeteye. :cool:

arknor · 26 Sep 2013 at 21:08

lol article from the same page
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...-naked-woman-poses-for-pictures-29553470.html

estebanrey · 26 Sep 2013 at 22:28

Why?

Even if you create one it's still just a sword, a weapon that has been useless in warfare for nearly 1,000 years. Unless you live in Westeros I really don't see the advantage.

arknor · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:00

estebanrey said:
Why?

Even if you create one it's still just a sword, a weapon that has been useless in warfare for nearly 1,000 years. Unless you live in Westeros I really don't see the advantage.

why not? theres likely many more uses than as a weapon

StriderX · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:04

Photonic molecules?

Why is this in a telegraph...sounds really fishy.

If it is true, then what do we call it... a Photide? Photanoid?

Stretch · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:04

Phew, at last. Will sleep better tonight.

wire-screw · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:10

estebanrey said:
Why?

Even if you create one it's still just a sword, a weapon that has been useless in warfare for nearly 1,000 years. Unless you live in Westeros I really don't see the advantage.

Because you can bounce bullets off it into your enemy's which are sans sabeeeeeeeeer.

wire-screw · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:16

Thing is they didn't even make a light saber, imo a light saber cuts limbs off perfectly.

StriderX · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:23

GSWAudio said:
Thing is they didn't even make a light saber, imo a light saber cuts limbs off perfectly.

Which you could likely do if you shaped the "photonic molecules"... in a straight line, how one does this without attractive qualities is beyond me however, i suppose they just shoot even more photons in succession?

I guess technically that would be called a molecular lash, which would be utterly stupid to have in society.

Fob · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:46

Looks like funding review is coming and they have squat.

I don't think there is any way to have light stop at a pre-determined point in space no matter how fancy the theory sounds.

Robosapien · 26 Sep 2013 at 23:48

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.html#ajTabs

The guy is even called Lukin. Whilst tenuous, that does kind of make me think of Luke Skywalker.

Don't understand though. I thought that quantum entanglement has long been an observed effect of two photons interacting.

And from the sounds of this, the photons aren't really a molecule, they just behave as a molecule when they emerge from the Rubidium because of, as the article puts it, the 'mediation of the Rubidium atoms'.

Sigh. Just another sensationalist stunt?

Make · 27 Sep 2013 at 08:25

StriderX said:
I guess technically that would be called a molecular lash, which would be utterly stupid to have in society.

Ohh someone else has been watching Andromeda too.