Today's post comes after a watching a series of Star Wars movies. In the movies, they used several different types of lasers as weaponry. This includes laser blasters and light sabers. However, these things are not yet possible in our world. For example, the laser blaster. According to the movie, a rifle sized machine is able to produce a short blast of light that burns and injures on contact. However, today, in order to create a laser that has any potential for a weapon, a huge room worth of machines and energy is required to concentrate the light to a point where it can cut through things. Not very efficient for shooting your enemies. Of course there is the alternative, the almighty light saber. Consisting of light passing through two crystals, the light saber has the ability to cut through nearly anything, including several feet of reinforced steel doors. It looks like these blades melt and burn things when they come in contact with things like metal and flesh. However, there is several flaws with the light sabers. If they are truly made of light or lasers, then the saber would go on infinitely; they would not stop at any particular distance to make a wield-able weapon, but rather continue on like a flashlight. That would be a very terrifying weapon. Secondly, if they have enough concentrated energy to burn things on contact and melt through steel, then the radiant heat given off by the saber would probably give major burns to the jedi. This would probably be a very bad thing if you were going up against a horde of storm troopers.
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