"Other than emitting a colored light, a lightsaber blade was a massless form that neither radiated heat nor expended energy until it came into contact with something (except for air, apparently)."
"High-powered energy was unleashed through a series of positively charged focusing lenses and energizers, manifesting a beam of energy that extended outward from the base to a length of about a meter, then arced circumferentially back to a negatively charged fissure ringing the emitter. A superconductor completed the power loop by feeding the transformed energy back into the internal power cell, where the energy loop began anew."
A grand piece of science-fiction.foxhound_fox
that's almost right. But according to George Lucas, the beam does continue, but the power of the crystals doesnt travel that far, so the beam ends at a certain point. You could tell how powerful a Jedi's crystal is by the length of their saber, that's why those crystal's, found in special caves and so coveted. There is no power loop, its wikipedia.... do you honestly trust wikipedia? I am speaking directly from an interview about the movie he had on the special edition of Episode 5 on VHS. They asked all these technical aspects, and that was his answer.
i was thinking.. why would you make it that short? you could own several rows of bad guys by having like a 100 ft long sabernippon_gamer
well light and energy lose power as they get further from the source. i expect that a 100 ft light saber would need a lot of power to stay powerful at it's end.
[QUOTE="eckboxes02"]A longer light saber might be inpractical for a human, but what if they attached a industrial strength light saber to the death star?D3nnyCrane
how would that be effective?
they could swing it around and kill ships.
you would need a gigantic robotic arm attached to the Death Star and then would need a hell of a lot of power.
The arm would also be too vulnerable to attack.
Yeah it makes more sense to just leave one open point for the entire thing to be destroyed by a torpedo...
true but it wouldn't make more sense than just having a laser that blows planets up.
Simple. Light Sabers don't actually "create" a laser, they condensate the energy of matter around a certain area, taking advantage of certain properties of light, energy and atomic particles. Basically, they mess up the gravity pulse on a certain area, creating an unusual concentration of energy. Therefore, they can control how much and in what way that energy is concentrated.
I've tought about this too sometimes. But after seeing a small green levitating man, who in a mixed order of words speaks, I decided to stop questioning the movies.
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