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Lightsaber. Real. Homemade.

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So, how do they go the next step and make it of finite length (i.e. a couple few feet long)?

 

 

You can't. It's light. Something has to be there to stop it or reflect it.

 

 

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So, how do they go the next step and make it of finite length (i.e. a couple few feet long)?

 

 

You can't. It's light. Something has to be there to stop it or reflect it.

 

This is the future man! They'll find a way.

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So, how do they go the next step and make it of finite length (i.e. a couple few feet long)?

 

 

You can't. It's light. Something has to be there to stop it or reflect it.

 

This is the future man! They'll find a way.

 

 

 

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Unless there's a series a reflective mirrors at the junction point that we can't see.

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So, how do they go the next step and make it of finite length (i.e. a couple few feet long)?

 

 

You can't. It's light. Something has to be there to stop it or reflect it.

 

This is the future man! They'll find a way.

 

 

 

1q76w.jpg

 

 

 

 

Unless there's a series a reflective mirrors at the junction point that we can't see.

 

Buzzkill.

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So, how do they go the next step and make it of finite length (i.e. a couple few feet long)?

 

 

You can't. It's light. Something has to be there to stop it or reflect it.

 

 

Localized miniature black hole that hovers three feet past the end of the pommel? C'mon! Think outside the box!

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"Solid light" theory has been happening for a few years now...

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070506160623.htm

 

 

 

I've been working the "Supermodels Love Me" theory for 2 decades now....results are mixed.

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So, how do they go the next step and make it of finite length (i.e. a couple few feet long)?

 

 

You can't. It's light. Something has to be there to stop it or reflect it.

 

The saber base could project a force field a few feet away that absorbs the light. Note my use of the unverifiable sci-fi concept of a "force field" to rationally explain the sci-fi concept of a lightsaber. :juggle:

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