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the lightsaber

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okay, first let me say this:

When star wars was initially conceived, most of what resulted was simply a matter of raw imagination. They (the producers) didn’t imagine the inner workings of the engines used, they simply put engines. As for the lightsaber, it too was not practically described, it was a beam in the shape of a blade. if you hit two blades together, they blocked each-other, otherwise they cut basically anything else. The eventual descriptions of how everything “works” was not a part of the original production, and not a part of the inspiration for these themes. (engines and lightsabers being the themes.)

Having said this, it is assumed that when such a time occurs that someone is actually holding a lightsaber, and it works like the movie, well, that’s WHAT a lightsaber IS. If there’s no kyber crystals, well, that just means that you don’t need them. IF someone has something that DOESN’T work like the movies, (maybe the blades can’t block each-other), then in fact, that’s not a lightsaber, because lightsabers CAN block each-other, what you have is something different. It’s not that it turns out lightsabers can’t block each-other, it’s that you just didn’t make one.

Using this approach, it is my hobby to imagine exactly what IS going on with Star Wars technology, regardless of what the franchise or various other authors have as the current “canon”.

Basically, I’ve decided I know what the lightsaber is.

It’s a beam of tiny black-hole vortices that are the product of a particle collision stream. The vortices fire out of the collision and the length of the blade is basically how far they travel before they die. when they (the black-hole vortices) die, however, they are close enough to a following vortex such that the next vortex actually collects the dying vortex before it can explode. The lightsaber runs continuously, and when retracted is firing such a short distance it can be contained within a chamber. The lightsaber basically, then, cuts like the event horizon of a black hole that can only reach to the edge of the blade, which is where the glowing light is produced. (there is no gravitational effect outside of the blade. If you hold your hand close to the blade, you will feel the same warmth you would from a soft-glow bulb) The event horizon destroys and separates matter at the blade, collecting some of the matter, but allowing some to escape as light. (mostly, it’s not so bright, not like a plasma cutter is bright, more like a relatively soft glow, as presented in the films). The blades can block as a result of the various magnetic and gravitational forces involved in the phenomenon, with the immense gravity of the blades interior preventing magnetism from projecting from the blade (so they are not magnetic in any way for the user), but when in contact with another blade, the magnetism will be repulsive as the blades begin to intersect.

essentially, if it doesn’t work EXACTLY how they do in the original trilogy, it ISN’T a lightsaber, and lightsabers are certainly a real machine. (being my ultimate statement)

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A black hole is a collapsed star.

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Mocata said:

A black hole is a collapsed star.

Well , a “true” black hole is a collapsed star, but there are a bunch of mathematical phenomenon that are described as “tiny” black holes, which are produced by other events.

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NeverarGreat said:

I don’t really understand much of what you describe, but it sounds just sciencey enough to be plausible.

Needs more diagrams and equations though.

Well, my idea is purely conceptual based on some silly articles, but essentially a particle collider makes a bunch of energy splatter that is mostly not perfectly defined. Out of these explosions is hypothesized the possibility of tiny black holes, that DO NOT become self-sustaining.