10/13/2012

Real lightsabers, are they really a possibility?

By Harold McNeese


The Star Wars lightsaber is the work of a real professional: light weight, easily portable, very easily triggered with just a press of the switch, coupled with, if you're a big Star Wars fan, you will think it is very cool. They look very good on a tv screen. To develop an authentic saber, the only and therefore obvious choice is laser technique. Laser can create a directional beam of light, and you're able to use it for all sorts of things - from eye operations to etching metal surfaces. The fact is that, developing a true saber is just not easy as it seems. Here are a handful of issues that you have to address first.

Building A Short Blade The most basic issue in creating a genuine saber would be that the lightsaber blade needs to stop right after It has reached 2 feet. However as with every kind of light, a laser light can't just stop, except when something it runs into bounces as well as soaks up the power. And a real saber that's laser beam powered would be pretty unwieldy, constituting a real safety nightmare. Losing your concentration during a battle could decapitate your buddy or perhaps you slice off your own hands and fingers.

Size You will need a lot of gear to manufacture a powerful laser light. Despite the fact that the spectacular advances in technological know-how could give you a shrunk length and width of a high powered laser light, you should possess a cooling process so that your real lightsaber wouldn't normally overheat.

Powering the Blade This issue is all about the actual question of power. Lasers has to be sufficiently strong enough and also be competent to do any damage and so they need a large amount of energy. A person's real lightsaber is not able to operate on batteries alone.

Battle Issues You already know the fact that laser beams can be mirrored, which implies competitors are able to protect their bodies with a hand mirror, These attackers could even just turn the laser beams back, and that is certainly quite embarrassing. Yet another trouble is that it isn't really simple to clash saber blades - they will just simply slide through each other, resulting in a dull or boring combat.

Visual and Audio Effects Not one but two main reasons why lightsabers tend to be awesome are undoubtedly their tasteful tones and also colorful glow. Laser beams usually aren't possible to view from the side, except when the air is dusty as well as smoky. Much like an actual laser pointer a saber is absolutely invisible, except when it was in fact aimed right into the eyes. As well as waving an actual torch isn't going to make any specific sound, waving a person's lightsaber can't make any, as well.

As a final point, real lightsabers as shown in all Star Wars films can't be a possibility. Even though the innovations in know-how may perhaps fix the size plus power problems sooner or later, the issue concerning blade length is a massive downer on almost everything.




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