8 Sci-Fi Inventions Ruined By Science
6. Lightsaber
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Chances are that if you were to have sat in a room with your likeminded friends, you, like me, have probably argued in great length about the possibility of the lightsaber existing.
The Wars have been around since a long time ago, enough time in fact to make the lightsaber the new flying car. Site after site consider the prospect of a real life lightsaber, from the average layperson, or capable enthusiast, and even our physicists have chimed in.
Neil deGrasse Tyson once debated the possibility of the light saber with Brian Cox (not William Stryker, the other Brian) over Twitter:
We can debate all we want about why the force – a telekinetic magic that doesn’t exist – stops the beam from shooting off into space, or how there’s a magnetic field which somehow folds the “light” back into the saber, but as it stands, we don’t even agree on what puts the light in the lightsaber.
Despite my wanting nothing more than to add it to the collection, the infamous arm severing device is never going to happen. For one thing, the technology would probably be too dangerous to grasp with your hands (think about holding a lit explosive and then imagine that explosive is a compressed version of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the very thing referenced by Dr. Cox in his Twitter debate), or two, as summarized by Dr. Tyson, why not pull an Indy and just shoot the bad guy?