Scientists Finally Invent Real, Working Lightsabers

Just in time for the new installment of the Star Wars saga, scientists may have finally invented the lightsaber. The fabled saber wasn’t crafted in a galaxy far far away, but instead in the halls of M.I.T. and Harvard University, where a team of physicists discovered a way to bind photons together in order to form a new molecule, which behaves similarly to the weapon of choice for Jedis.

While the scientists may have been pleased with their sci-fi friendly findings, the discovery was actually a by-product of unrelated experiments, which according to Yahoo, involved photons and rubidium atoms, not mitichlorines. While the team was attempting to find new ways to deliver quantum information, they found that when more than one photon was fired through a cloud of rubidium in a chamber cooled by lasers to just a few degrees above absolute zero, the photons teamed up and started interacting and behaving in a surprising and unexpected manner

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About damn time. Can warp drive be far behind?

Grady wrote:

Just in time for the new installment of the Star Wars saga, scientists may have finally invented the lightsaber. The fabled saber wasn’t crafted in a galaxy far far away, but instead in the halls of M.I.T. and Harvard University, where a team of physicists discovered a way to bind photons together in order to form a new molecule, which behaves similarly to the weapon of choice for Jedis.

While the scientists may have been pleased with their sci-fi friendly findings, the discovery was actually a by-product of unrelated experiments, which according to Yahoo, involved photons and rubidium atoms, not mitichlorines. While the team was attempting to find new ways to deliver quantum information, they found that when more than one photon was fired through a cloud of rubidium in a chamber cooled by lasers to just a few degrees above absolute zero, the photons teamed up and started interacting and behaving in a surprising and unexpected manner

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About damn time. Can warp drive be far behind?

Screw the warp drive. I want a worm hole.

Since we are putting in requests, I'll take a landspeeder.

Blazer Bob wrote: Screw the warp drive. I want a worm hole.

There's one in my apple. Shall I bring it over?

Science Chic wrote: I want transporter capability. Please make it so.

They are working on it, I just read that it is possible but would take some several billion years to transmit and reassemble a human. And that's after they "narrow the confinement beam".

Its all fun and games until someone loses an arm or rematerializes with their head on backwards.

HEARTLESS wrote: Its all fun and games until someone loses an arm or rematerializes with their head on backwards.

Or there is a fly in the chamber. :scared:

HEARTLESS wrote: Its all fun and games until someone loses an arm or rematerializes with their head on backwards.

I think VL was a test pilot on the project.