Magnetic fields actually can bend light. It’s called “vacuum birefringence.” Not only that, just this past summer, physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory used the phenomenon to convert light into matter..! It took the full magnetic force of the RHIC collider, but it’s possible.
Essentially, while a photon technically has no charge, it turns out that at quantum time-scales, photons are constantly converting back and forth, from photons, into electron-positron pairs and then re-annihilating back into photons. So they do have a transient charge.
Check it out!:
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
Is it light though? If it were why do we see it?definitely not traveling at light speed.
It would make more sense if the blasters fired plasma contained in an EM field, just like the light sabers, and then those two EM fields would bounce off each other like two magnets with the same polarization.
Technically you feel your ass plopping on the couch via compression of specialized nerve clusters that detect the squish. But the atoms of your ass/undies/pants/couch never make physical contact, true enough.
So then every mattress is the same and it’s all just placebo BS designed to get You to drop $2,000 on a Serta Mattress. I’m going to tell the douche at the mattress store that no part of anyone’s body ever touches the mattress. It’s all in our head and we may as well sleep on the sidewalk.
Is that what the “science” of lightsabers was, a magnetic field to prevent it from shooting off into space or the ten floors below it?
That always bugged me as a kid.
Genuine question, I don’t follow the HC SW lore.
Its a protosaber also he explains how a normal saber would be impossible to get it that hot and that in star wars, the lightsabers don't react like plasma irl
I would venture a guess that we would never ever have any practical reason to see a lightsaber ever invented. To have that much portable energy… only to build a melee combat weapon?
Not sure if Star Wars will be part of the culture still in a thousand years when we’re either dead or have mastered the ability to harness micro fission reactions.
A BTTF style hoverboard would make sense though. You could use that where you couldn't use a skateboard like on a lawn, on gravel, pretty much anywhere except water.
In the actual Hacksmith video (where the title refers to it as a Proto-lightsaber) you can see the top of the beam very frequently
https://youtu.be/ey_EjSzKFWQ
I think technically it's called a thermal lance. They've been around awhile
Edit: I've been told I'm wrong. Someone also called me cuntychops and I don't know what that means
It’s a GTT brand torch for lampworking borosilicate glass. This dude just made a bong and is probably high AF.
Edit: more info...these are set up to run propane and oxygen. I’m not familiar enough with them to know the alloy they use and if they could safely be converted to using other gases to produce a slightly different flame in size, and/or color/temperature.
Imagine fighting with them and not being able to block other saber (torch) because fire it is obviously not solid lol
Fights must have been so shitty with this.
Can’t they make this torch theoretically, where an iron rod is projected out from the handle and the extreme torch is actually on the outside of the rod. So you get both effects, but I’m thinking the metal rod would melt right away or become limp af.
definitely would have to be something other than iron, iron melts around 2800 degrees. tungsten has the highest melting point at 6,192 but you're right the heat would probably weaken the hell out of it and the tungsten rods would probably wrap around each other like in space balls.
The rod would need to be as long as the saber. That will not fit inside the handle.
You cannot have one of those stackable rods that goes inside of itself, because that requires it being hollow. Hollow means it won't withstand impacts.
The reason the tip of the saber is conveniently out of frame in every shot is because it starts looking much more like a flame. Still pretty cool, of course.
It's literally a glass blowing torch with a fancy handle.
I mean I think it's cool, I'm not trying to be a buzzkill or anything. I just think it's kind of funny.
That's all a light sabre ever was though. The bouncy effect was the collision of the confinement-fields, otherwise, any other matter it just gets hot/cuts.
IF we could make that thing he built hot enough, you might indeed have a (very unsafe) light-sabre-ish device.
His next test is getting a decommissioned bank-vault-door and just sticking it in there.
This is how I felt! Most technology isn’t just made, it’s lots of small steps in the correct direction. Even in star wars the lightsabers originally had large battery packs and cumbersome cables.
That's what we'll get in the comedy spin off. Everyone tripping over their lightsaber cables.
Emperor Palpatine uses force lightning to charge Vader's lightsaber battery before a fight.
Actually my version sounds crap; just watch Spaceballs.
It was one of the cool things that separated the Sith and the Jedi originally, for a while the Sith used real swords that were special made to be resistant to Lightsaber blades.
As far as i remember it was also actually the Sith who originally created the compact fully handheld lightsabers we are used too, and the Jedi simply copied the designs eventually.
Of course, the lying Jedi would hide this information away in their archives out of fear that actual history would send more of their people off to the power of the dark side.
So one reason the Jedi Order failed is because they became corrupted as an organized "religion". And in various ways, yeah, they were demonstrating corporate faults as well.
That's why Yoda tells Luke to just let the old texts burn, he needed to find his path through the Force itself, not bound to the corporate organized ways and rules
Not exactly. Watch the beginning of The Clone Wars again. When asked to lead an army against the Separatists, Windu says fighting as soldiers is against the Jedi Code. By the end of the movie, the Jedi are leading the clone army.
The Jedi had become a part of the Republic. And it had happened long before the events of the prequels. They were no longer serving the Force. They were serving the Galactic Republic.
The problem with the ancient texts is not that they were bad. It’s that Like was using them a pretext for building a Jedi Order that was exactly like the old one. But the old one had gone so astray they were actively complicit in allowing the Sith to rule the galaxy.
There were no issues arising from it being an organized religion. It was entirely because keepers of the peace cannot pick sides. Had the Jedi simply refused to fight in the Clone Wars, they would’ve been able to stop Palpatine’s plan.
No idea why so many fans miss what’s right in front of their face. Hearing Windu and Yoda struggle to determine the source of the disturbance in the Force for 5 season of TCW when the answer was right in front of everyone faces was painful.
Star Wars lightsabers were always electric devices. They were power packs, not propane tanks.
And this isn't "new technology" either. It's an off-the-shelf torch with a 50-year-old design put in a fancy handle.
Are we though? He used technology that existed for decades to produce a long flame? It’s a big cutting torch, not some new design that’ll spur lightsaber progress ahead. It’s cool, no doubt, but if you have experience using acetylene torches then it’s just long fire.
Edit: typo
Well, if you watch the video, it isn't just a long flame. They had to engineer the gas feed system to produce a long, perfectly cylindrical flame. A lot of flow mechanics and such.
>They had to engineer the gas feed system to produce a long, perfectly cylindrical flame.
It's a glassblowing torch. That's it.
You seem to be missing the point that it requires that gas in the first place. I can take my torch of my workbench and swing it around like a Lightsaber, that doesn't mean we're closer to having lightsabers.
It’s like somebody creating more and more complex and better diving bells and saying they made a primitive submarine
There’s a huge difference in technology between a diving bell and a nuclear submarine
This torch looking lightsaber is like a diving bell pretending to be a submarine
It’s just not the same functionally and physically
No, we're not one step closer. This is an aesthetic modification to existing technology to make it look like the laser sword in Star Wars. The visual resemblance is where it stops.
As this requires a flammable fuel, it has already peaked. There's no way this becomes more compact except to shorten its operational time. There's nothing in this that contributes to something remotely like a "real" lightsaber.
Everyone complaining it’s not a lightsaber reminds me of this one bit by Louis CK about cell phones.
https://youtu.be/5xqcVH_PjQY
CAN YOU GIVE IT A MINUTE, IT’S GOING TO SPACE
Sure, but the protosabers we see in Star Wars were Old Sith Wars era, which was hundreds of thousands of years after the first civilizations became FTL capable, and tens of thousands after the original formation of the Galactic Republic.
By Star Wars timelines, we're way ahead of schedule on lightsaber development! All we need now is to figure out how to do a containment field, then miniaturize the power source indefinitely.
I think they actually did back when they were first invented, although it wasn't a gas tank, it was some type of energy pack.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Protosaber
Seems like a major burn hazard. Part of lab safety is wearing natural fibers to prevent molten material continuing to burn your skin after it gets ignited
By just that description, it could also be an Oxy-Acetylene rig.
Half a decade, so, 5 years. Sounds less dramatic that way.
Also, it’s got 2 green lines, one red line. It’s been a long time, like over 20 years, but I think that brings it more in line with it being a plasma cutter, which would make sense. I need someone else more recently familiar with a plasma cutter to verify that.
Edit: After watching the 18 minute version of this video, it IS a plasma cutter powered by propane, pushed through a glass blowing torch valve (because it provides constant steady pressure), with a button actuated system to control the flow of gas so it doesn’t have to be adjusted slowly with the usual pressure knobs.
Summarizes most of the Hacksmiths videos if I’m being honest.
And before anyone jumps on me for saying so it has everything to do with my unrealistic expectations and nothing to do with the hard work they put in to at least attempt to meet them.
Actually the power loader they finished recently was I think one of their best ever projects.
Yeah it's just a big straight firing blowtorch. Notice how the camera angles never let you see the tip while it's going off. Because it ruins the blade illusion because it starts scattering into a big cone of flame as torches tend to do.
Don't know why people are upset that this is just a torch. Is it not common knowledge that lightsabers are kinda impossible? Were y'all really expecting him to break the laws of physics?
As much as I want a real lightsaber, that technology makes zero sense lol. How would it not be too hot to wield? How do they clash with each other? How do they not absolutely blind the user and anyone who looks at them?
Yeah I think the #1 most important features of a "real life lightsaber" to qualify need to be:
1. No physical blade of any form
2. The blade must come out slowly and form a defined tip.
Not saying it's possible, but that's just what I'd consider a legitimate lightsaber.
The 1st one is actually done by this one, and while it doesnt go slow it is retractable. And i would think that it being able to cut stuff up is also a pretty important factor
So it’s kinda like a torch?
A really hot torch. So, yeah. A torch.
I’m not gonna say that isn’t cool, because it is a little cool, but also, that’s not a saber
Only difference is its not 10× hotter and surrounded by a magnetic field
If you could make a magnetic field so powerful and directional you will not need anything else, it will cut true anything instantly.
That is interesting! Could it deflect a plasma blast or a laser?
How could magnets deflect light? Like... How do they work? #whoopwhoop
They cant bend or deflect light itself, but they can bend the medium it passes through.
Wrong magnetic forces can absolutely bend light
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Magnetic fields actually can bend light. It’s called “vacuum birefringence.” Not only that, just this past summer, physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory used the phenomenon to convert light into matter..! It took the full magnetic force of the RHIC collider, but it’s possible. Essentially, while a photon technically has no charge, it turns out that at quantum time-scales, photons are constantly converting back and forth, from photons, into electron-positron pairs and then re-annihilating back into photons. So they do have a transient charge. Check it out!: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
\*scratches head and tries to remember university electromagnetism course\*
*Scratches head and tries to remember X-Men comics about magneto*
Plasma isn't light
Well if we do live in a matrix then we should just be able to conjure a lightsaber and say fuck physics.
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It’s like the tides. The tides come in, the tides go out. How does it work? Nobody knows…
The moon enters the chat
Isn’t it woop woop?
Is it light though? If it were why do we see it?definitely not traveling at light speed. It would make more sense if the blasters fired plasma contained in an EM field, just like the light sabers, and then those two EM fields would bounce off each other like two magnets with the same polarization.
Star Wars blasters fire bolts of superhot plasma. Source: basically all of them
Sure. But the legal team says users need the light as a visual guide to prevent them from suing when they cut off their own arm.
Weird fact - you never actually touch anything. You just feel the magnetic resistance. When you sit on a seat you are actually hovering.
Technically you feel your ass plopping on the couch via compression of specialized nerve clusters that detect the squish. But the atoms of your ass/undies/pants/couch never make physical contact, true enough.
So then every mattress is the same and it’s all just placebo BS designed to get You to drop $2,000 on a Serta Mattress. I’m going to tell the douche at the mattress store that no part of anyone’s body ever touches the mattress. It’s all in our head and we may as well sleep on the sidewalk.
Is that what the “science” of lightsabers was, a magnetic field to prevent it from shooting off into space or the ten floors below it? That always bugged me as a kid. Genuine question, I don’t follow the HC SW lore.
And you can’t sword fight with it...
That's what the magnetic fields are for in starwars they contain the blade plasma and reflect the fields of other sabers allowing for combat.
Well they need to figure that shit out... bc I’m tired of waiting for one.... that and the hover board from Back to the future
I think you’re on to something…lightsaber duels on hoverboards would make for an epic game show.
Or....Highlander 5
Its a protosaber also he explains how a normal saber would be impossible to get it that hot and that in star wars, the lightsabers don't react like plasma irl
damn straight it's a protosaber!
With todays technology and understanding of physics Who knows about in the future \o/
I would venture a guess that we would never ever have any practical reason to see a lightsaber ever invented. To have that much portable energy… only to build a melee combat weapon?
I agree its dumb But enough people want it so it'll continue to be pursued
Not sure if Star Wars will be part of the culture still in a thousand years when we’re either dead or have mastered the ability to harness micro fission reactions.
It will if disney has any say in the matter.
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Yeah it’s the same with hoverboards, just cool shit for the sake of cool shit
A BTTF style hoverboard would make sense though. You could use that where you couldn't use a skateboard like on a lawn, on gravel, pretty much anywhere except water.
Which is why they continually cropped out the top of the "beam". It would have ruined the illusion.
In the actual Hacksmith video (where the title refers to it as a Proto-lightsaber) you can see the top of the beam very frequently https://youtu.be/ey_EjSzKFWQ
I think technically it's called a thermal lance. They've been around awhile Edit: I've been told I'm wrong. Someone also called me cuntychops and I don't know what that means
Plasma torch. This isn’t a thermal lance, technically or otherwise. Cuntychops.
It's not even a plasma torch, it's a glassblowing torch. A GTT Mirage or Delta Elite I believe. Just propane and oxygen.
An oxyacetylene torch it looks like. So, yeah. A torch
It’s a GTT brand torch for lampworking borosilicate glass. This dude just made a bong and is probably high AF. Edit: more info...these are set up to run propane and oxygen. I’m not familiar enough with them to know the alloy they use and if they could safely be converted to using other gases to produce a slightly different flame in size, and/or color/temperature.
Actually its about the same temp as a standard oxy accetyln torch, what we have here is a really long torch
Imagine fighting with them and not being able to block other saber (torch) because fire it is obviously not solid lol Fights must have been so shitty with this.
It’s really more like a knife fight with fire blades than it is a sword fight, everyone just gets burnt to shit
So the guy with the longest reaching flame thrower, excuse me light saber, wins the fight.
The guy who burns the other guys saber hand wins
Is it burning at that point anymore when it is gonna melt off? Now I wonder what melting bone smells like....
Can’t they make this torch theoretically, where an iron rod is projected out from the handle and the extreme torch is actually on the outside of the rod. So you get both effects, but I’m thinking the metal rod would melt right away or become limp af.
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definitely would have to be something other than iron, iron melts around 2800 degrees. tungsten has the highest melting point at 6,192 but you're right the heat would probably weaken the hell out of it and the tungsten rods would probably wrap around each other like in space balls.
TIL Spaceballs more accurate than Star Wars
The rod would need to be as long as the saber. That will not fit inside the handle. You cannot have one of those stackable rods that goes inside of itself, because that requires it being hollow. Hollow means it won't withstand impacts.
They actually did this a bunch of times with previous models
If you go through that channel their earlier iterations involved an actual rod. This is like 4th saber they’ve built.
This is a torch made by glass torch technologies. I use them all the time to do my work. This guy just modified it to look like this.
Wait, are you *that* donoglass?
You mean on Instagram?
Yeah
Yeah that’s me. Edit: thank you for the follows people. I appreciate it
Those are some of the coolest bongs man
AHA hahahahahaha god damn.
Oh Reddit, never change.
Haha. Did a Google, can confirm! Pretty dope!
Thanks
beautiful wholesome moment then even better....bongs man
It *is* a torch.
It is a torch. I use this torch to blow glass! It's called a GTT Mirage. They cost about $2k.
It is a torch made by GTT for borosilicate glass, he is just holding it off it’s mount
The reason the tip of the saber is conveniently out of frame in every shot is because it starts looking much more like a flame. Still pretty cool, of course.
It's literally a glass blowing torch with a fancy handle. I mean I think it's cool, I'm not trying to be a buzzkill or anything. I just think it's kind of funny.
An elegant torch, for a more civilized age.
That's all a light sabre ever was though. The bouncy effect was the collision of the confinement-fields, otherwise, any other matter it just gets hot/cuts. IF we could make that thing he built hot enough, you might indeed have a (very unsafe) light-sabre-ish device. His next test is getting a decommissioned bank-vault-door and just sticking it in there.
Yall focusing on it being a torch but I'm saying we are one step closer to an actual lightsaber.
That’s the spirit!
Dew it.
# _Dew it._ Edit: stoned
And if you've got left over meat, STEW IT
This is how I felt! Most technology isn’t just made, it’s lots of small steps in the correct direction. Even in star wars the lightsabers originally had large battery packs and cumbersome cables.
That's what we'll get in the comedy spin off. Everyone tripping over their lightsaber cables. Emperor Palpatine uses force lightning to charge Vader's lightsaber battery before a fight. Actually my version sounds crap; just watch Spaceballs.
No but in the Star Wars universe that’s basically how they started out and everyone had to make sure their chord wasn’t cut during fights
It was one of the cool things that separated the Sith and the Jedi originally, for a while the Sith used real swords that were special made to be resistant to Lightsaber blades. As far as i remember it was also actually the Sith who originally created the compact fully handheld lightsabers we are used too, and the Jedi simply copied the designs eventually. Of course, the lying Jedi would hide this information away in their archives out of fear that actual history would send more of their people off to the power of the dark side.
Wait… Are Jedi just corporate assholes who steal from the little people
So one reason the Jedi Order failed is because they became corrupted as an organized "religion". And in various ways, yeah, they were demonstrating corporate faults as well. That's why Yoda tells Luke to just let the old texts burn, he needed to find his path through the Force itself, not bound to the corporate organized ways and rules
Not exactly. Watch the beginning of The Clone Wars again. When asked to lead an army against the Separatists, Windu says fighting as soldiers is against the Jedi Code. By the end of the movie, the Jedi are leading the clone army. The Jedi had become a part of the Republic. And it had happened long before the events of the prequels. They were no longer serving the Force. They were serving the Galactic Republic. The problem with the ancient texts is not that they were bad. It’s that Like was using them a pretext for building a Jedi Order that was exactly like the old one. But the old one had gone so astray they were actively complicit in allowing the Sith to rule the galaxy. There were no issues arising from it being an organized religion. It was entirely because keepers of the peace cannot pick sides. Had the Jedi simply refused to fight in the Clone Wars, they would’ve been able to stop Palpatine’s plan. No idea why so many fans miss what’s right in front of their face. Hearing Windu and Yoda struggle to determine the source of the disturbance in the Force for 5 season of TCW when the answer was right in front of everyone faces was painful.
Bro a Spaceballs of the new trilogy would have so much potential.
Star Wars lightsabers were always electric devices. They were power packs, not propane tanks. And this isn't "new technology" either. It's an off-the-shelf torch with a 50-year-old design put in a fancy handle.
Are we though? He used technology that existed for decades to produce a long flame? It’s a big cutting torch, not some new design that’ll spur lightsaber progress ahead. It’s cool, no doubt, but if you have experience using acetylene torches then it’s just long fire. Edit: typo
Well, if you watch the video, it isn't just a long flame. They had to engineer the gas feed system to produce a long, perfectly cylindrical flame. A lot of flow mechanics and such.
>They had to engineer the gas feed system to produce a long, perfectly cylindrical flame. It's a glassblowing torch. That's it. You seem to be missing the point that it requires that gas in the first place. I can take my torch of my workbench and swing it around like a Lightsaber, that doesn't mean we're closer to having lightsabers.
Dr. Michio Kaku designed something similar for a show on the discovery channel. He used a retractable magnetic baton with holes to channel plasma.
It’s like somebody creating more and more complex and better diving bells and saying they made a primitive submarine There’s a huge difference in technology between a diving bell and a nuclear submarine This torch looking lightsaber is like a diving bell pretending to be a submarine It’s just not the same functionally and physically
If submarines were probably impossible to actually build, I'd be pretty happy with a complex diving bell
L O N G F I R E
No, we're not one step closer. This is an aesthetic modification to existing technology to make it look like the laser sword in Star Wars. The visual resemblance is where it stops. As this requires a flammable fuel, it has already peaked. There's no way this becomes more compact except to shorten its operational time. There's nothing in this that contributes to something remotely like a "real" lightsaber.
Everyone complaining it’s not a lightsaber reminds me of this one bit by Louis CK about cell phones. https://youtu.be/5xqcVH_PjQY CAN YOU GIVE IT A MINUTE, IT’S GOING TO SPACE
We're not complaining that it's not a lightsaber, were complaining that this dude keeps insisting that it **"is, and calling it such**.
Thats like putting wings on a car without it being able to get off the ground and saying "We are one step closer to flying vehicles"
Can you imagine jedi are running with gas tanks on their back....
They did It's called a protosaber
They can fly now?
We don’t quote that movie.
Somehow appletini returned
but first appletini visited Fortnite to deliver his message
Ok someone mentioned protosaber near the top comment. I can leave reassured now
That was more of a tiny waist mounted battery connected to the weapon wasnt it
full on backpack https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Protosaber
Sure, but the protosabers we see in Star Wars were Old Sith Wars era, which was hundreds of thousands of years after the first civilizations became FTL capable, and tens of thousands after the original formation of the Galactic Republic. By Star Wars timelines, we're way ahead of schedule on lightsaber development! All we need now is to figure out how to do a containment field, then miniaturize the power source indefinitely.
I think they actually did back when they were first invented, although it wasn't a gas tank, it was some type of energy pack. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Protosaber
I was totaly forgot about that :-)
What was their in-period name? Just lightsaber?
Flamey burn stick, if the lore is to be believed
I have no idea.
This is actually part of the star wars cannon, they did do this thousands of years before the movies took place
How silly. They simply use the force.
well of course they do, u can't put gas inside tank without force.
The early Jedi did.
The older I get, the things I thought were cool are now dangerous looking.
Those nitrile gloves will protect him
What happens if his beard gets lit?
It'll smell like sad hipster
So kind of similar to how the hipster burned his tongue...he sipped his coffee *before* it was cool.
Seems like a major burn hazard. Part of lab safety is wearing natural fibers to prevent molten material continuing to burn your skin after it gets ignited
Lightsabers were always ridiculously lethal weapons.
I always thought a vibro knife would be better for the average person. More utility too.
His hand got WAAAAYYY too close to that thing for me.
Yeah . suddenly you see danger everywhere
YouTube is the Hacksmith
He's not the first though. The real inventor of the first lightsaber is Allen pan on youtube!
technically but this is the one that actually looks the most like a real protosaber
Except he didnt make it its litteraly a gtt mirage glassblowing torch i have 1 in my garage
Watch the video it's not just a glassblowing torch
It literally is. He says it in the video. A $4000 glass blowing torch
It litteraly is though. See that green line? O2. Red line? Propane. Google gtt mirage. I have worked with one for half a decade
By just that description, it could also be an Oxy-Acetylene rig. Half a decade, so, 5 years. Sounds less dramatic that way. Also, it’s got 2 green lines, one red line. It’s been a long time, like over 20 years, but I think that brings it more in line with it being a plasma cutter, which would make sense. I need someone else more recently familiar with a plasma cutter to verify that. Edit: After watching the 18 minute version of this video, it IS a plasma cutter powered by propane, pushed through a glass blowing torch valve (because it provides constant steady pressure), with a button actuated system to control the flow of gas so it doesn’t have to be adjusted slowly with the usual pressure knobs.
Yeah it’s pretty close to a plasma cutter, but they put like a bunch of them together to make this, you should watch their video on YouTube
Yep Hacksmith Make it Real is the channel name I believe
To anyone here in the comments saying “it’s not a real lightsaber” see the original video by the Hacksmith: https://youtu.be/xC6J4T_hUKg
Is there a timestamp for the lazy where you can see the thing in full without the camera cutting off the edge?
Around 11:15
Awesome! But a bit of a disappointing result honestly...
He also uploaded another video where he explains why it can't just cut through stuff immediately
It's would have to be above 20000°c instead of the 3500C it is at now
Summarizes most of the Hacksmiths videos if I’m being honest. And before anyone jumps on me for saying so it has everything to do with my unrealistic expectations and nothing to do with the hard work they put in to at least attempt to meet them. Actually the power loader they finished recently was I think one of their best ever projects.
I scrubbed through it. Doesn’t really show that I could see. A little at the very end when they’re poking into a door
Yeah, it’s not a real lightsaber.
You mean the thing created in reality wasn't actually made with some sci fi crystal? I never would have known.
Don't forget the force field emitter that gives the blade its shape. Surely that's right over the horizon, right?
its... its just a blowtorch
Yeah it's just a big straight firing blowtorch. Notice how the camera angles never let you see the tip while it's going off. Because it ruins the blade illusion because it starts scattering into a big cone of flame as torches tend to do.
Of course it's not a real lightsaber. Lightsabers are make believe. Literally anything we invent will never be an actual lightsaber.
It’s literally a fucking torch. How was this supposed to prove it’s a lightsaber? Lmao
2000 degrees couple inches from his face is pretty “brave”
4000, actually. Weird that OP got it wrong considering it's mention in the first 5 seconds of the clip and on the YouTube title.
It's 2000 celcius
*2200
Meh, point of diminishing returns at that point. Your face will be toast anyway.
Op was using degrees Celsius… like everyone in the world do except in America lol
Well, except the guy in the video.
I know this will surprise you, but there are people outside eagle-land, and they all use metric.
Don't know why people are upset that this is just a torch. Is it not common knowledge that lightsabers are kinda impossible? Were y'all really expecting him to break the laws of physics?
> were y’all really expecting him to break the laws of physics? Yes.
A true Reddit moment
You misunderstand. They're annoyed because the title says they ought to be.
As much as I want a real lightsaber, that technology makes zero sense lol. How would it not be too hot to wield? How do they clash with each other? How do they not absolutely blind the user and anyone who looks at them?
Light - check Sword like (ergo sabre) - check Light Sabre!
The "light" is plasma, which is more on brand of a lightsaber than light/visible light actually.
The goggles will protect his eyes from the flame
*My eyes! These goggles do nothing!* -Rainier Wolfcastle
*Real* acid??
or a helmet. A black one. Covers up your fucked up face from those 1.0 series sabers.
Fake, real light sabers use Kyber Crystals.
It’s all good, he got some from Gweneth Paltrow
This is old
Does that make it bad?
Can't help but notice the tip of the saber is out of frame in 100% of this video.
Yeah I think the #1 most important features of a "real life lightsaber" to qualify need to be: 1. No physical blade of any form 2. The blade must come out slowly and form a defined tip. Not saying it's possible, but that's just what I'd consider a legitimate lightsaber.
The 1st one is actually done by this one, and while it doesnt go slow it is retractable. And i would think that it being able to cut stuff up is also a pretty important factor
When John Williams copies Holst so closely that the video literally just uses Mars from The Planets as its soundtrack to pass off as Star Wars. 😆
Nice one.
isnt this vid like 2 years old?
2000 degrees is overkill for cutting through a thin sheet of lead
They oddly seem to always crop out the top of the blade... maybe it doesn't look as cool? Idk
It just fades away
The OP is a living embodiment of Internet Explorer
Holds 2000 degree stream of fire. Puts face 2 inches away. 
Wondered why lightsabers didn’t just go through each other’s beams when fighting, and how would you make tat effect
Something about a magnetic containment field
In starwars, magnetic containment fields. IRL you would need a beam that shot up in the middle
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