{"id":451,"date":"2005-05-20T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=451"},"modified":"2005-05-20T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T13:16:06","slug":"how-lightsabers-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/05\/20\/how-lightsabers-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lightsabers Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No kidding.<br \/>\nEver wonder how those really neat Jedi weapons actually work?  Well, Howstuffworks.com has an article about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/lightsaber.htm\">How Lightsabers Work<\/a>.  I love these psuedo-scientific looks at science-fiction technology and lightsabers have long been a favorite of mine.<br \/>\nThe funny thing is, I once had a long conversation with my brother about this very topic.  Now, that might not seem like much, but my older brother has a PhD. in Physical Chemistry and worked with lasers for years as part of his doctorate research.  The man knows lasers.  He told me that it might actually be possible to focus a laser, or array of lasers, in such a way that you could actually create a sword-length beam.  The trick is getting the engergy to power it.  To make a laser or lasers powerfull enough to get lightsaber-like results, would take an enourmas amount of power that could not possibly be contained in a handle-sized device.  Today.  Who knows what might happen tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s enough deep thoughts for a Friday.  Go, click the link and enjoy the fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No kidding. Ever wonder how those really neat Jedi weapons actually work? Well, Howstuffworks.com has an article about How Lightsabers Work. I love these psuedo-scientific looks at science-fiction technology and lightsabers have long been a favorite of mine. The funny thing is, I once had a long conversation with my brother about this very topic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29,27,28,30],"tags":[345,612,616],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fun","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-laser","tag-lasers","tag-science-fiction-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}