Scientists create real-life Star Wars lightsabers

By Tribute on October 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Researchers from Harvard University and MIT have discovered a way to recreate the lightsabers from George Lucas’ Star Wars films. They claim to have found a way of binding photons that renders new molecules, which behave in similar ways to the weapon used by Jedi Knights. “Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that photons are massless and do not interact,” said Harvard University physics professor Mikhail Lukin.

“What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other so strongly that they act as though they have mass, and bind together to form molecules. It’s not an in-apt analogy to compare this to lightsabers. When these photons interact with each other, they’re pushing against and deflect each other. The physics of what’s happening in these molecules is similar to what we see in the movies.” The next film in the long-standing epic space opera, Star Wars: Episode VII, is to be released in 2015 with J.J Abrams directing. ~Raj-Kabir Birk

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