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So I think plasma is a better candidate. This ionized gas is made by lightning, is what the sun’s made out of, and is even used in plasma TVs. You can contain plasma using electric and magnetic fields, which exert inward pressure to match the plasma’s outward pressure. This means you could make different shapes, like a lightsaber–esque cylinder. But there are some problems: You couldn’t create a tip, and plasma would leak and vaporize the skin off Luke Skywalker’s hands. And as with a laser, you couldn’t fit all the necessary machinery to generate the plasma into a sword handle. Plus, the beam would need to be millions of degrees and far denser, in terms of energy, than anything we have now. But if somehow you could do all that, sure enough, the lightsaber would cut through metal and bone. The fields containing plasma would repel other lightsabers, so they would work like what you see, except it would radiate a great deal of heat, about as much of the sun. Jedi would have really bad sunburns. Louis J. Sheehan

How do you think “The Force” works in the Star Wars universe, and could it exist in ours?http://ljsheehan.livejournal.com
The most difficult thing about trying to explain The Force is that it does so many different things: It can levitate objects, read others’ thoughts, influence the weak-minded, reveal visions of the past and the future, detect disturbances or presences, and even allow for life after death.

The best chance we have of explaining The Force is through the midi-chlorians, which were introduced in the new trilogy. Lucas explains these midi-chlorians as organisms that live within our cells and allow us to feel The Force. The element that seems scientifically based here is the sensing of someone strong in The Force. You can compare this to creatures living in water that generate small electrical fields. Some fish generate these fields, and these can sense when other fish come into these fields as well as the strength of the field put out by the approaching fish.http://ljsheehan.livejournal.com

Or maybe The Force is similar to magnetism. Birds sense magnetic fields with cells in their beaks and eyes, called cryptochromes. Birds may actually “see” the magnetic field, so you can imagine a similar kind of thing happening in Star Wars. If Darth Vader is standing in the next room, maybe you can see the emissions of The Force like a magnetic aura around him.

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