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Non Life Sciences => Technology => Topic started by: moolots on 21/09/2011 09:22:39

Title: lightsabers fact or fiction?
Post by: moolots on 21/09/2011 09:22:39

hi i was wondeing weather or not people have created real lightsabers and weather or not they can cut through metal i heard that theres plasmasabers but i have not been able to find many things on these.   

Title: lightsabers fact or fiction?
Post by: peppercorn on 22/09/2011 10:57:17

What appears to be an unbounded plasma field would be impossible in reality.

There are Plasma Cutters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cutting) but they only work in (mechanical) contact with a (liquefying) metal surface.