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Jedis Rejoice! Lightsabers can repel each other!

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 27 2019, @02:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-try-it-near-a-10-Tesla-magnet dept.

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According to a new article in Phys.org https://phys.org/news/2019-02-repulsive-photons.html
Scientist have found a way to make photons repel each other

Long story short they convert the photons which normally do not interact into polaritons: https://www.nature.com/subjects/polaritons "Polaritons are hybrid particles made up of a photon strongly coupled to an electric dipole" and this allows the photons to repel since they have charge.

Looks like my light saber really can be made. Now I just need to find a source for Kyber Crystals https://www.starwars.com/databank/lightsaber-crystal

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:48AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:48AM (#807473) Journal

    You can't cut someone's arm off with that. At least, not with the ease seen in the movies.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:57AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:57AM (#807474)

    Just make the LED really sharp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomolecular_wire [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @11:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @11:14PM (#807851)

      I don't know about in the movie, but I believe in the book of The Last Jedi that's basically what the executioners' axes are.