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Thread: We lost a weapon (before we got it) and we didn't even know it
fishbrains wrote:
play nice kids
If you dont play nice Joras will turn this whole forum around and take you right home!
yimaz wrote:
fishbrains wrote:
play nice kids
If you dont play nice Joras will turn this whole forum around and take you right home!
Air guitars have no mass either but they are easy to play.
JTGAlpha wrote:
Han didn't use a lightsaber. He sliced open a dead, unmoving animal. Lightsabers are VERY hard to use without hurting yourself because the blade has no mass, as it's all light, and so it's easy to forget where that blade ends, and thusly easy to say, cut your leg off, or the top of your head. THEN you have to be as fast and wily as a Jedi, to be that fast and block laser bolts and what not.
I couldn't disagree more. I shouldn't be able to do anything with a lightsaber but turn it on.
Are we there yet ?!?
fishbrains wrote:
yimaz wrote:
fishbrains wrote:
play nice kids
If you dont play nice Joras will turn this whole forum around and take you right home!
I told them to go before we left Nar Shadda!
yimaz wrote:
Are we there yet ?!?
fishbrains wrote:
yimaz wrote:
fishbrains wrote:
play nice kids
If you dont play nice Joras will turn this whole forum around and take you right home!
I told them to go before we left Nar Shadda!
/flail
When deactivated, a lightsaber appears as a polished metallic handle, about 30 centimeters long, lined with control studs. At the press of a button the energy contained within is liberated and forms as a shaft of pure energy about a meter long. The saber hums and scintillates with a distinct sound. Its shimmering blade is capable of cutting through almost anything, save for the blade of another lightsaber.
In the hands of a Jedi, a lightsaber is almost unstoppable. It can be used to cut through blast doors or enemies alike. Using the Force, a Jedi can predict and deflect incoming blaster bolts, and reflect them back at the firer.
After the extermination of the Jedi ranks, lightsabers became rare relics. The knowledge of their construction disappeared with their masters. Luke Skywalker, the last of the Jedi, built his own lightsaber as the culmination of his training.
Although use of the lightsaber is strictly reserved to the Jedi -- the only ones capable of handling the difficult weapon -- it is also used by their sworn enemies, the Sith.
Now while light is energy, energy is not always light. The fact that lightsabers stop moving when they come in contact with one another indirectly indicates that that they have mass. Heck in modern physics theories you can argue that light even has mass. A concentrated beam of sufficient density to become solid would have weight.
Disclaimer: This was posted for the purpose of idle discussion only. I am bored at work.
That's how come they seem solid.
Course I could be remembering it wrong, but I feel fairly confident that that's how it was written.
CorellianCowboy wrote:
From what I remember from reading something about lightsabers in one of those SW encyclopedias, they are made of two energy fields. One of the fields defines the shape of the saber and gives it it's properties that allow it to deflect blaster bolts and block other sabers. The other field layered over this one is the one that allows it to cut.
That's how come they seem solid.
Course I could be remembering it wrong, but I feel fairly confident that that's how it was written.
What I've read is kinda like that.
I remember reading that essentially, a Lightsaber is a single, large, circuit. The "blade" is an energy transfer beam instead of wire or cable. The emitter is negative on the inside and positive on the outside(or vice versa). Think of the emitter as having two parts, a full circle on the inside, and a ring around it, those two parts being the seperate polarities. Then the energy is sent outward from the emitter, and after a certain distance, arcs back upon itself and towards whichever polarity is on the outside ring of the emitter. And the light it is a side effect(originally) caused by the color focusing crystal used prior to the emitter.
So, this could explain some things about it. And the fact it was named a Lightsaber is mankind's nature to name things by observation, and not by what it actually does.
fishbrains wrote:
yimaz wrote:
Are we there yet ?!?
fishbrains wrote:
yimaz wrote:
fishbrains wrote:
play nice kids
If you dont play nice Joras will turn this whole forum around and take you right home!
I told them to go before we left Nar Shadda!
/flail