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Imagine a hilt that has a microwave emitter built into it, that heats and expands a slice of rubber attached to the very top of the hilt into a burning inflated stick of rubber, about 6,000,000 degrees Celsius, that would melt through flesh and wood, iron, steel, maybe even some hyper-alloys.

You see the microwaves heat the inside of the rubber, and the rubber is a certain fabric built to reflect the microwaves back into the hilt, recharging it, as you said. The rubber heats, and it doesn't burn.

This rubber is generated in a proposed machine that can manipulate the very atoms of an object and turn it into a deferent type of substance all together.

This machine was proposed in an episode of Visions of the future called The quantum revolution

This machine is also the cheapest and easiest way to make antimatter, just insert an object, and change it's substance into anti matter, which would be what fuels the microwave transmitter inside the hilt.
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No, you would just end up with a pulsed laser source..
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No, you would just end up with a pulsed laser source..
If that were true than when scientists use a laser canon, and they stop firing, there would be a thousand mile beam continuing to travel for years.
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not knowing a lot about it..
wouldn't there be a problem controling the speed of light to 5' and I'd wonder about the focal point? what if the other guys sword was set at 10' now you'd be in trouble anyway.. (;>))
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If that were true than when scientists use a laser canon, and they stop firing, there would be a thousand mile beam continuing to travel for years.
Any light source will shoot a beam of photons for an infinite distance. If you switch on a laser and switch it off after 1 second, you will have a photon beam approximately 300,000km long. This beam will continue forever unless it hits something, where it is either absorbed, reflected, or deflected.
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You could use a mirror to relect the light back to the hilt. However that would be problematic as the mirror would have to be attached to the hilt in some way and once reaching the hilt the laser would probably destroy it. Lets not even get into the fact that there is no way to produce that kind of energy in a hand held device.
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As has been said, light doesn't stop in midair.

Also, two beams of light don't go "clunk" when they hit each other.

The lightsabre is in fact an infinitely-thin, virtually one-dimensional force field generated by machinery in the hilt. It's so thin that as it moves, or as air moves past it, subatomic particles are sliced in half, evaporating in bursts of pure energy.

The energy is generated in the form of ultra-ultra short wave radiation, shorter than gamma rays and highly dangerous. Switching on the lightsabre would be a hightech way of committing suicide if it were not for a second field, surrounding the first. This second field channels some of the energy into the hilt, recharging the battery and making the whole thing self-powered. The remainder is converted into visible light. This makes it safe for the user and means that he/she can see where the otherwise invisible "blade" is at any time - an important feature if you want to avoid slicing anything and everything around you. The frequency of the emitted light is tunable, so the users can set the blade colour to whatever suits them.

The technology behind all this is subject to a level #1 interdict, given the current state of civilisation on Earth. Sorry, people. You'll have to show you're grown up before you can be allowed to play with this stuff.
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As has been said, light doesn't stop in midair.

Also, two beams of light don't go "clunk" when they hit each other.

The lightsabre is in fact an infinitely-thin, virtually one-dimensional force field generated by machinery in the hilt. It's so thin that as it moves, or as air moves past it, subatomic particles are sliced in half, evaporating in bursts of pure energy.

The energy is generated in the form of ultra-ultra short wave radiation, shorter than gamma rays and highly dangerous. Switching on the lightsabre would be a hightech way of committing suicide if it were not for a second field, surrounding the first. This second field channels some of the energy into the hilt, recharging the battery and making the whole thing self-powered. The remainder is converted into visible light. This makes it safe for the user and means that he/she can see where the otherwise invisible "blade" is at any time - an important feature if you want to avoid slicing anything and everything around you. The frequency of the emitted light is tunable, so the users can set the blade colour to whatever suits them.

The technology behind all this is subject to a level #1 interdict, given the current state of civilisation on Earth. Sorry, people. You'll have to show you're grown up before you can be allowed to play with this stuff.
I had an idea similar to this field surrounding the laser.

It was that the hilt had a microwave emitter built into it, that heated and expanded a slice of rubber attached to the very top of the hilt into a burning inflated stick of rubber, about 6,000,000 degrees Celsius, that would melt through flesh and wood, iron, steel, maybe even some hyper-alloys.


You see the microwaves heat the inside of the rubber, and the rubber is a certain fabric built to reflect the microwaves back into the hilt, recharging it, as you said. The rubber heats, and it doesn't burn.

This rubber is generated in a proposed machine that can manipulate the very atoms of an object and turn it into a deferent type of substance all together.

This machine was proposed in an episode of Visions of the future called The quantum revolution

This machine is also the cheapest and easiest way to make antimatter, just insert an object, and change it's substance into anti matter, which would be what fuels the microwave transmitter inside the hilt.
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Except that you cant convert matter to antimatter without violating physical law..

Why dont you create a standing EM wave of some wavelength?

Whatever happens you would have trouble powering this device, you can recharge the hilt with energy it has expended, its that damned law of thermodynamics again, energy that leaves the system (in light, heat) is gone.
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Except if they do prove string theoryhttp://www.physorg.com/news88786651.html, than maybe the nanobots could maybe somehow harness STRINGS, and then just pluck the strings until we get anti-particles!
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