A Star Wars lightsaber doesn't have a physical blade or rod. It emits a beam of energy that goes out about three feet or so and then just stops. Light doesn't work like that. Lasers don't work like that. No form of electromagnetic energy works like that.Go tell the physicist that. Unless you care to explain in detail why it's not?
If you notice the tops of the lightsabers are not flat, but curved. It is obviously falling back on itself, caught in an intact cycle.
"Exactly", because you clearly have not watched the documentary in full length either. He clearly discusses this problem. You repeatedly seem ignore certain aspects to suit an objective.
I'm unable to watch the video because it's apparently blocked in the U.S.
It doesn't matter. Lightsabers exhibit properties that real plasma lacks, particularly with respect to the solidity of the saber beams. The canon description in Star Wars of lightsabers is technobabble, so the use of the term "plasma" in Star Wars fiction doesn't mean anything.
Yep.
Until you do, don't comment on it.
No. I stated earlier forms of the lightsaber were plasma based, even providing a linked illustration. But skipping that part was a necessity to push your point forward.
Who is this again? Never heard of him. Kaku on the other hand is amongst the top renowned physicists. Not only that, but the problems of the lightsaber has been addressed in Kaku. Do you seriously think he would skip all that? But ofcourse ignoring all that is necessary to make it look like he never addressed it.
Argument by repetition of the same statement. "I'm right, the physicist is wrong just because. He addressed the issues, but it's better to pretend he didn't. He explained in detail, but somehow he's still wrong, just because."
I didn't say any of that.
Well it sure seems like that. Until you watch the documentary, you cannot hope to bring up the same points again and again, which he already discusses. You claimed to have already seen it didn't you? Can't you access it via a proxy site?
I already stated my opinion about his invention upthread. Quoting myself:
No wait, I think i caught it now. The ceramic rod is extending all the way to the end and keeping the beam intact. And actually what the other guy posted is more similar to the hypothetical crystal lightsaber. One problem he seems to have is containing the plasma.
Hitting anything hard with a ceramic rod isn't going to be good for the ceramic rod. That's pretty much the beginning and end of that idea for anything other than some sort of industrial welding or cutting application.
