Lightsabers

The maximum iconic piece of "superstar Wars" era is the lightsaber, but it's also probable the maximum a ways-fetched, specialists say. The photons that make up light have long been considered massless debris that don't have interaction with every other, which makes the prospect of clashing beams of light in epic lightsaber duels not likely.

In 2013, but, researchers from Harvard college and the Massachusetts Institute of generation (MIT) validated that once pairs of photons had been fired thru a cloud of supercooled atoms, the photons emerged as a single molecule. speakme approximately the interaction between the particles to the Harvard Gazette, Mikhail Lukin, a professor of physics at Harvard, said, "it's no longer an inapt analogy to examine this to lightsabers." [Infographic: Secrets of the Jedi Lightsaber]

but Davis stated re-developing the impact in actual existence is a whole other ball sport. "Lightsabers are only fictional and will in no way be developed," he stated. "the usage of the devices and cryogenic device to supply trapped quantum gases 2 feet [0.6 m] from the stop of a lightsaber emitter is impractical."

however all isn't always misplaced in terms of mild-based totally weapons: Scientists are close to developing weapons just like the blaster guns featured in "megastar Wars." In reality, the U.S. military has already confirmed a ship-primarily based laser weapon able to capturing drones out of the sky and disabling small boats. And this summer time, the U.S. Air force commenced testing any other laser-based totally weapon that is five times as effective as the army's model, and small enough to be fitted to fighter jets and Humvees.