This channel is quickly becoming “Smash your dreams” presented by Simon. Edit: that being said, I hope there’s an episode on the Stark Arc Reactor coming.
I give Simon more credibility than that other jerk that does it though. Hell, I generally don't like brits, but Simon is okay, gives me hope for a few of the rest as well.
7:35 That scene orignaly had Indy using the whip to disarm the swordsman, however Harrison Ford was pretty sick and and at one point in tiredness just pulled the prop gun instead and they decided the scene worked much better that way.
"But there is no elite military squadron that charges into battle brandishing only swords against an enemy force armed with assault rifles" ...... except for that one insane fighter on D-Day
Here is an idea for any writers out there. 1,000 years after some cataclysmic event humanity rebuilds finds copies of star wars thinks its historically accurate, and since they assume it has been done before they set out to recreate the world of star wars.
I love story ideas like that. My friend and I years ago were discussing historical interpretation of ancient sites and artifacts as done by historians and archeologist. I posited and joked that half the stuff we attribute to ancient beliefs and culture may have just been art and comic books to them and that in 2000 yrs after the apocalypse that they would think the history and art museum was actually a temple to a pantheon. And as we were talking a guy came out of nowhere and start bowing in front of the museum in a worshiping manner. I was like hmm guess I'm right.
Great premise. However, your living room would be packed with Disney lawyers before you finished writing chapter one. The mouse is watching and he WILL come for you.
Check out Kyle Hill: he did an episode on this confirming all of this. It is possible for something to be hot enough to slice thru anything swiftly but it would be so hot that it would not just be impossible to hold, but to be within something like 100 meters of. And if the mag field is containing that heat to spare it’s holder instant disintegration than it can’t be hot enough still to cut. Also, that mag field would be so powerful that it would also be exceedingly deadly. The strength of the field needed to contain such heat would easily be deadly out several meters; not to mention make the weapon completely unwieldy in any metallic space (ahem! Spaceship ahem!). Still want one.
Kyle also gives some details on the "graphic and severe" Simon mentions at the end. A light saber would not cleanly slice through a person, cauterizing the wound. The incredible heat needed to "cut" through a person instantly would actually cause the flesh - which is 70-90% water - to _violently vaporize in an explosion,_ hurting or possibly killing the wielder.
@@LizardVideoDude I wanted to continue with like a list of also. Also. Also. Lol but, ya know, attention spans online and stuff I kept it short. But yea, steam explosion. Gooey body parts all over the place. The wielder of the saber not spared by the blast and body-parts-as-shrapnel. Another thing no one mentions, the brightness. Shit this hot, energetic is brighttttttt like, welding arc bright (like, MORE; much more).
7:15 I Think perhaps Simon needs to see Hacksmiths work here on UA-cam. They most certainly are trying to create a lightsaber. At the moment they have a plasma torch based device that uses a very expensive nozzle to create laminar flow to shape the blade and hip mounted backpack for the gas and a few chemistry tricks to get the right color.
If you look at some of the legends lightsaber designs they had a backpack to charge them. Now starwars definition of a lightsaber is complete bs they call them a actual Saber of light 🙄. Now if you take the lightsaber in how they are actually depicted a tv show by Michio Kaku called scifi science I think it was describes how a light Saber might be constructed eventually.
I dunno how much star wars lore you might know, but "slugthrowers" which are just guns, were actually used against Jedi at times bc the slugs would melt when Jedi tried to block them and maim them. Just an interesting bit of lore. And Star War is definitely fantasy, not science fiction. However much I love my space wizards😂
As aside I remember Babylon 5 refer to projectile weapons as slugthrowers. Star Wars is both fantasy and scifi. It like steampunk fantasy. True science fiction is just projecting technology we have and how they might exist in some specific period of time.
@@curtislindsey1736 "which he considers sci-fi and not fantasy." Some people apparently don't know the difference. One such person commented in this thread.
This is actually my first Simon Whistler video I discovered this morning after watching some Anton Petrov and Dylan J Dance…. And I binged watched the whole channel….. and then I found in the comments like FUCKING 12 MORE GODDAMN CHANNELS. GOD DAMMIT IM GOING TO HAVE TO FOLLOW ALL OF THEM. In all seriousness, so far I love your channels
There is a company based in Canada named Hacksmith Industries. Hacksmith build actual props from movies such as Iron Man's helmet. Hacksmith build real 1st protosaber (lightsaber). This saber produces over 4,000 degrees of plasma. I think that HI has newest version of their saber. Hacksmith Industries has their UA-cam channel. Their channel has a lot of videos.
While true... fiction can often be just that, fiction! The quote doesn't mean that every conceivable flight of fancy is either possibly realistic or even practical.
I have cut steel with my oxy acetylene torch, and it is called medium duty. I have cut 1/2 inch steel with it and the claim is on a 2 hose system (the one I have ) can be set up to cut 6 inch steel . It is a far cay from a light saber yet most people who have seen me use it are well ... they try to get some distance as soon as it lights up a with a pop. I do not see to many people firing up a light saber, if there was one, most people turning it on, would drop it and run.
I agree Simon, I have said many times star wars is not science fiction, there is very little science in star wars. Star wars is fantasy that happens to take place in space. That being said I still love it.
Light-saber isn't insanely hot, it is insanely tiny! The fat glowing plasma we see is only the visible part of a microscopically thin 'blade'.* The blade is less than a micron in width; some say it's closer to zero...divide energy by zero, cut a world... Assumptions about how much material is being vaporized in a swift cut are way off; cinematic license and all that. The hot melty-bits we see on cuts are plasma burns incidental to the actual cutting. *Dim recollection of Star Wars novel in which an Officer notes 'microscopic cuts' adjacent to burns in Storm Trooper armor as evidence of light-saber damage, rather than a vibro-shiv. Nerd on, dudes!
If you're going to go with a science-fantasy weapon, consider the power sword from Warhammer 40,000. The sword has a special generator built into the weapon that generates a field of plasma around the blade, so when you hit something the blade bites and cuts into the target, the plasma field begins scorching and melting through the target, and the power field discharges into the target, breaking molecular bonds. You also have the plus of having a metal blade, in the event your power cell blinks off, you can still chop into the target.
Simon jokes about the Disney Starcruiser lightsaber, but the real joke is the to stay in a Starcruiser room is 6k USD and the crappy lightsaber is sold separately
We discussed having these in the Master Breachers course and then a few years later the Army declassified the pocket plasma torch. Those things are awesome
Agreed the question about how long until we have them is a weird one. We technically already have all the basics we need except for 1 major thing. Stability. Until we can get the stability of the blade to stay let alone even a cuting edge. we will not have a lightsaber nor even a true proto saber but just a big torch. Even if we get the cuting power and heat to the same level of a blow touch and/or welding tool which would put us close to the level of cutting a lightsaber can do it wont matter if the actual blade falls apart once it touches anything. Thats why its so weird as all we need is really just one piece of tech. A piece of tech that can straighten a flame to a solid or semi solid. Get that add it to the proto saber pack or hilt and boom actual lightsaber/proto saber
I feel like lightsabers (and melee weapons in general) could see a resurgence if another sci-fi tech became real: power armor. It's usually depicted as at least being highly resilient against gunfire but also quite slow and bulky, so the ability to cut through the armor would become very important.
I saw the first three of the Star Wars series, I enjoyed them but wasn’t so absorbed that I felt inclined to follow the rest of them. But I also never saw it as anything but an entertaining fantasy, it baffles me that people take it seriously enough to try to drag it into the real world. Like Simon says, it’s freakin’ magic. Unlike Simon, I enjoy fantasy and tales of magic, but while I enjoy divorcing myself from reality for an hour or three, I don’t confuse any of it with actual science.
The problem is they all can or do exist, just not the way people think they do. Even Magic in itself, as we look at it is ridiculous, but exist in science and methods, that when explained, is just science. Lightsaber will never be real as it is portrayed, unless that " magic" crystal from that fantastical source, is found. Missing parts of an equation, but we've been here before,(fantasy of going to the moon) so we'll have to just wait and see🤔
There are a lot of science fiction tropes in Star Wars. The main story we follow doesn't focus on that however. While the Force is what makes it a fantasy, alot of hypothetical technology exists in Star Wars. Before they invented FTL travel they began colonizing the Galaxy with generational ships and light sails
Despite being useless as weapons lightsabers would be really useful tools, you could cut through almost any door with sonething you can comfortably carry in your pocket.
While the basic conclusion that lightsabers are unrealistic is correct, there is an overlooked way to make them slightly more practical. Have a reactive system that ramps up the plasma temperature only when needed. I.e. when it detects contact it pumps up the plasma temperature.
Phasers as well. The tricorder is a real possibility. Red shirts always die because of plot. That character is basically added to the scene to die instead of a main character that would ruin the show. The transporter would simply kill you and it would suffer from the same flaw as light sabers, it would require a massive amount of energy to operate it.
3:00 The Phantom Menace kind of hint at this with them cutting through the door to escape the gas. It was taking him time to work his way around that door and the actor was putting on a good show of making it look like it was taking him some serious force to push the "blade" through the metal.
My assumption, just based off the existence of vibroblades in the Star Wars universe and their relative similarities in functional damage to lightsabers, is that whatever field is used to project the plasma and keep it contained in the shape of the blade also vibrates at a rapid pace, which would allow for the quick cuts seen in the franchise. Pure speculation of course but it'd explain the cutting power.
@Richdragon Well yeah, I know vibroblades are just vibrating metal, but that was my point. They have similar cutting effectiveness to lightsabers, so my thought was that they adapted either that specific tech or took a similar approach in making the field containing the plasma blade vibrating at a similar speed
His remarks are very true. Magic is a core element of the lightsaber. Even if we approached the technological levels involved in the Star Wars films after many more thousands of years of development then we would still fall short. There are plenty of other technologies we could pursue instead. Shields for one would be great, especially to defend people who want to avoid war and be neutral.
Well, for what it's worth and to give an idea of just how advanced the tech of the lightsaber was imagined to be: In the Legends canon of Star Wars, Spaceships capable of faster than light travel through hyperspace had been around for over 25,000 years before the first lightsaber was constructed. Yes, I love Star Wars :)
All good points. That said, the deflecting plasma bolts is explained by the ability of a force user to move at super-human speed that is faster than normal vision to perceive.
I 100% agree with Simon about Star Wars being a fantasy rather than science fiction, I say this constantly. Star Wars is my number 1 IP but it's a fantasy that just happens to be set in space.
7:45 - just a reminder Simon that Jedi CAN bring swords / sabres to gunfights, as they can use either their Force powers, or the lightsabres themselves to block / deflect projectiles (rather like Neo in the Matrix). 😉 Anyway, lightsabres may be magical sci-fi hokum, but they're still the coolest weapons ever devised (real or fictional).
The "laser sword" as George put it actually didn't cauterize the wound the first time it was used. If you watch the original version there is blood leaking out from the shoulder we see on the ground. :)
I think a good idea of how it could work is that it's a thin beam of charged antiparticles, (antimatter). When the antiparticles and particles in the air interact they annihilate each other in the time it takes the antiparticles to travel approximately one meter. This process creates the illusion of a one meter glowing "blade" and the hum of the Light Saber. The particles of any object that passes into the antiparticle stream is annihilated (cut) along the path of the antiparticle beam. All light saber antimatter beams have the same charge, so they repel each other.
This is 1 of me favourites so far! I am a Star Wars nut, yes already knew the Light Saber is super-heated plasma topping 30-50,000°Celcius depending on its colour Such a shame they won't' ever be made! 😅
When people first began imagining traveling to the moon one of the ideas was a train that could somehow cross the heavens. So, I guess people back then could have asked, "When will trains take us to the moon?" Never, of course but what they didn't understand was that by the time our technology could take us to the moon, trains were obsolete. Same with video phones. By the time the technology was capable of video phones, we didnt really want to use phone anymore, video or otherwise. I predict this is what will become of faster than light travel, by the time we are capable of the technology it will no longer be required. We will be able to teleport to any point in the universe, not travel the distance.
The light sabre, what about a room temperature cooled superconductor hovering about a metre away from the grip with a reflector of some sort on the bottom side pointing back.... Superconductors lock onto magnetic fields, it would have to be a pretty good Superconductor. Sounds like a good place start.
Fun fact: hyperspace in Star Wars is magic as well, the “scientists” of the Star Wars universe don’t even know how it works they just use certain hyperspace routes, I like to chalk all the fantasy elements of Star Wars up to “any sufficiently advanced science will be indistinguishable from magic” (I still don’t think that’s a decent excuse for Leia gaining the ability to survive in the vacuum of space, but for the sake of Star Wars fans sanity let’s forget that film happened)
actually, you can survive space for a little bit, until you suffocate, assuming you have the presence of mind to exhale all your air upon entering space. Check out Nerdist and Because Science on youtube.
In all fairness Leia took a bolt of superheated plasma directly to her unprotected arm and instead of her arm melting off she basically just said "ouch" and got on with it. Lucas already established her as being supernatural in RotJ, I don't see why space ought to kill her anymore than superheated plasma would.
I never managed to get into Star Wars (except for that one incredibly bizarre animated Ewoks movie that we rented from blockbuster several weekends in a row…weird that such a thing existed). Anyway, I did learn recently that George Lucas has a love of westerns as well as samurai movies, and that went into the creation of the Star Wars universe. In effect, he took several different settings and combined them into something that was, by many standards, pretty unique. I think that’s kind of cool, in a way, but that’s just me.
Note that an very high powered battery is also an bomb if it discard all the energy at once something it will do if destroyed. This is why battery fires are an concern with current batteries and this will be much more of an problem with an battery holding as much energy as gasoline as hold more energy than dynamite and it would all be released at once if destroyed. It might replace high explosives if safe enough.
Since we’ve got lightsabers in this one, can we get a Death Star video? *Edit: if you carefully examine a lightsaber you can sometimes see a “blade” point. It’s more prevalent in the Clone Wars TV show, as the animation style is more lenient.
Anti matter, likely positrons, in a magnetic bottle in the hilt. Through tiny magnetic conduits out through small holes in the shaft. A small amount leaked out the holes when active will make light as it contacts electrons in surrounding air. Sensors in the blade control the release of more positrons when the blade contacts something. The anti matter in a blade is the same charge as in another so they repel each other when they hit each other. Doesn't sound that demanding. Just expensive to get the positrons and make the magnetic equipment to control it. That's where the crystals come in. They're like powerful rare earth magnets no contain the positrons.
Reply to force who retracted his reply. I suppose he realized his mistake. He claimed antimatter annihilation produces gamma rays, and would be a suicide machine. All light is produced by antimatter annihilation. Depends on the energy of the pair. Gamma rays are produced by high energy annihilation. But that doesn't mean only Gamma rays cause damage. Infrared causes heat damage, Ultraviolet causes molecular damage. Neither of those are anywhere near the energy of Gamma rays.
Lightsabers only kinda make sense because blasters kinda suck compared to a real world gun. I mean, the bolts are super slow and glow. No wonder they get blocked.
In regards to the power source. Disney had it set where the crystals would power it. Originally, there is a powerful battery near the bottom half of the hilt and it generates the energy to create plasma that would be focused through a minimum of two crystals (one for amplification and the other to refine the shape which also produces the color). But overall, Lightsabers as a whole will be practically impossible to make as seen in the films.
Disney ad played during the video. Another fantasy setting Warhammer, added plasma swords. They need a backpack, heat resistant armour, and can set enemies ablaze. But that wouldn't do as it would make Star Wars 18+ and Disney wouldn't have that.
The amount of energy necessary to produce, project and shape the plasma at a constant flow to be a melee weapon could be made into a projectile weapon that would be far more potentially destructive by shooting lances of plasma in much shorter duration beams.
Even star wars showed that a gun is more useful than a lightsaber. In the expanded universe theres a planet where jedi engage in combat with local species who dont use energy weapons but classic metal bullets, which cant be repelled by lightsabers. In essence jedis were having trouble defending against bullets
6:05, So it has hsndheld technology that we have in a room (a tokamak)...kinda like a cell phone compared to the buildings full of hardware for the first computers... Soooo...we're...what, fifty years away? Sweet!
The Force is *sort of* necessary to use one *safely* , because the magnetic field is so strong it affects gravity or something, plus, the blade is almost completely massless, so balance is a serious issue. But yeah - all the downsides of a lightsaber are pretty much taken care of with the Force.
Even converting the entire mass of a light sabre hilt into energy (e=MC^2), I think it probably still falls short of the energy requirements to continuously fuel a blade at the several million degrees of heat necessary to cut through solid steel in an instant. (...never mind what happens in an atmosphere if anything sizable is heated to "several million degrees"). Meaning: Impossible physics.
IIRC in the star wars Canon the first proto lightsaber was created 25,000 before the events of the original trilogy. If that's anything to go by, it's going to be quite a while before we see a properly functional lightsaber.
lightwave bending and oscillation thru gravity control all in the space of 3 to 4 feet， oscillation intensity like laser but from the outer hilt to the tip of supposed blade than bends back toward the hilt centre in an endless loop possible only when one can create gravity wells like micro blackholes， first hinted at in SW Source Book，a piece of exposition literature sold some 30 years ago
LOL - if Simon is like that with Lightsabers, I would love to see the opinion on the "Dark Saber" - another equally unrealistic weapon. Or the Death Star or even Snoke's massive flying wing. The thing that gets me with SW tech is how quickly they can build these massive ships and yet still retain a level of secrecy that it surprises the rest of the galaxy . "OMG, where did that planet sized spaceship come from? Didnt see that one coming...."
That's what really bugged me with the latest trilogy. A giant space laser carved into the equator of a planet, and nobody noticed? Any creep with a telescope would have spotted it. Not to mention the massive resources the First Order must have to bounce back from it being destroyed, along with countless spaceships.
I think someone also estimated the cost to build a Death Star weapon, it was more than the entire earth’s economy combined. In order to have the financial resources to build a Death Star, every resource on an enitire planet as far as money and raw materials would have to be utilized. The labor cost can be absorbed by using slave labor but the amount of metal to build essentially a small hollow moon is staggering.
Love the videos Simon, but please please please ask the editors to drop the music when you are speaking. Your diction is very clear- which is very helpful, but there is such loud music in some of your videos that it gets very hard to hear. Possibly my poor speakers - but I can't be the only one with poor speakers or bad hearing. If the music plus talking is a deliberate decision, is there anyway we could interest you in a music free version of the audio? Even if that ended up just being an audio only cut with all the graphics missing as well. Would be a shame, but at least we wouldn't have to keep rewinding or staring at the subtitles.
The human body is a bag of water essentially. If a loghtsaber worked like in the movie when it hit a person the would explode in a steam explosion. Like throwing a snowball in a deep fryer....with bones.
I remember when Kyle Hill covered this. Ignite a lightsaber and two things happen, you burst into flames, and then so does everything in the room.
This channel is quickly becoming “Smash your dreams” presented by Simon.
Edit: that being said, I hope there’s an episode on the Stark Arc Reactor coming.
I give Simon more credibility than that other jerk that does it though. Hell, I generally don't like brits, but Simon is okay, gives me hope for a few of the rest as well.
@@rodziegman that sounds quite elitist.
Or Star Trek is way better than Star Wars, as told by Simon Whistler.
@@arcturionblade1077 I can’t stay awake long enough to try following that show
@@PeachM0de What is the other show?
Man this channel... it's like Business Blaze for people severe ADHD and a meme addiction.
Subbed anyway, Simon loves his money after all.
7:35 That scene orignaly had Indy using the whip to disarm the swordsman, however Harrison Ford was pretty sick and and at one point in tiredness just pulled the prop gun instead and they decided the scene worked much better that way.
Being unrealistic is what makes a lightsaber cool
"But there is no elite military squadron that charges into battle brandishing only swords against an enemy force armed with assault rifles" ...... except for that one insane fighter on D-Day
A sword shaped torch that reaches 2/3 the temperature of the sun's surface sounds like fun
Here is an idea for any writers out there. 1,000 years after some cataclysmic event humanity rebuilds finds copies of star wars thinks its historically accurate, and since they assume it has been done before they set out to recreate the world of star wars.
I love story ideas like that. My friend and I years ago were discussing historical interpretation of ancient sites and artifacts as done by historians and archeologist. I posited and joked that half the stuff we attribute to ancient beliefs and culture may have just been art and comic books to them and that in 2000 yrs after the apocalypse that they would think the history and art museum was actually a temple to a pantheon. And as we were talking a guy came out of nowhere and start bowing in front of the museum in a worshiping manner. I was like hmm guess I'm right.
The Star Wars universe did occur a long long time ago 🤣🤣🤣
Reccomended watch using this premise: Galaxy Quest
@@DMKleinArts I've seen it, not what I'm talking about. It is similar
Great premise. However, your living room would be packed with Disney lawyers before you finished writing chapter one. The mouse is watching and he WILL come for you.
Loving this new channel! Would love to see a snarky look at the kind of exoskeletons you see in movies like Edge of Tomorrow or Elysium.
Yes TSOSF is the love child of a very drunken Megaprojects & an high on cocaine Brain Blaze !
COMING SOON!
Check out Kyle Hill: he did an episode on this confirming all of this. It is possible for something to be hot enough to slice thru anything swiftly but it would be so hot that it would not just be impossible to hold, but to be within something like 100 meters of. And if the mag field is containing that heat to spare it’s holder instant disintegration than it can’t be hot enough still to cut.
Also, that mag field would be so powerful that it would also be exceedingly deadly. The strength of the field needed to contain such heat would easily be deadly out several meters; not to mention make the weapon completely unwieldy in any metallic space (ahem! Spaceship ahem!).
Still want one.
Kyle Hill rocks. So does his hair.
@@michaelhendricks9462 he knows.
Kyle also gives some details on the "graphic and severe" Simon mentions at the end. A light saber would not cleanly slice through a person, cauterizing the wound. The incredible heat needed to "cut" through a person instantly would actually cause the flesh - which is 70-90% water - to _violently vaporize in an explosion,_ hurting or possibly killing the wielder.
@@LizardVideoDude I wanted to continue with like a list of also. Also. Also. Lol but, ya know, attention spans online and stuff I kept it short.
But yea, steam explosion. Gooey body parts all over the place. The wielder of the saber not spared by the blast and body-parts-as-shrapnel.
Another thing no one mentions, the brightness. Shit this hot, energetic is brighttttttt like, welding arc bright (like, MORE; much more).
Even tho it will kill you. You still want one... so you saying u want to die? Lol
7:15 I Think perhaps Simon needs to see Hacksmiths work here on UA-cam. They most certainly are trying to create a lightsaber. At the moment they have a plasma torch based device that uses a very expensive nozzle to create laminar flow to shape the blade and hip mounted backpack for the gas and a few chemistry tricks to get the right color.
Neverminded, he covers this about 11 minutes in.
If you look at some of the legends lightsaber designs they had a backpack to charge them.
Now starwars definition of a lightsaber is complete bs they call them a actual Saber of light 🙄. Now if you take the lightsaber in how they are actually depicted a tv show by Michio Kaku called scifi science I think it was describes how a light Saber might be constructed eventually.
The Hacksmith's got a new one out... 4500 degrees, strontium plasma, etc... btw, you can get a mini-saber at his merch store... lol
I dunno how much star wars lore you might know, but "slugthrowers" which are just guns, were actually used against Jedi at times bc the slugs would melt when Jedi tried to block them and maim them.
Just an interesting bit of lore.
And Star War is definitely fantasy, not science fiction.
However much I love my space wizards😂
Simon, doesn't know shit about Star Wars. He thinks it's fantasy and hates it. He does like Star Trek, which he considers sci-fi and not fantasy.
Disney threw out all the "lore" you speak of.
As aside I remember Babylon 5 refer to projectile weapons as slugthrowers. Star Wars is both fantasy and scifi. It like steampunk fantasy. True science fiction is just projecting technology we have and how they might exist in some specific period of time.
@@curtislindsey1736 "which he considers sci-fi and not fantasy."
Some people apparently don't know the difference. One such person commented in this thread.
Why couldn't a master of the Force deflect or stop bullets using just the Force, like Neo from the Matrix?
This is actually my first Simon Whistler video I discovered this morning after watching some Anton Petrov and Dylan J Dance…. And I binged watched the whole channel….. and then I found in the comments like FUCKING 12 MORE GODDAMN CHANNELS. GOD DAMMIT IM GOING TO HAVE TO FOLLOW ALL OF THEM. In all seriousness, so far I love your channels
the energy on this this channel is so high. I love it. bring this energy to business blaze.... while roaming and slapping scripts
He ignores us 😭
We'll probably have warp drive and transporters long before we'd get even close to having a lightsabre.
STAR TREK 4 THE WIN!!
Simon getting to shit on Star Wars for 15 mins is in Fact Boi heaven. Loved it.
There is a company based in Canada named Hacksmith Industries. Hacksmith build actual props from movies such as Iron Man's helmet. Hacksmith build real 1st protosaber (lightsaber). This saber produces over 4,000 degrees of plasma. I think that HI has newest version of their saber. Hacksmith Industries has their UA-cam channel. Their channel has a lot of videos.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.”
- Arthur C. Clark
True.
And then there is also actually a thing called "magic." The quote you provided even recognizes that.
@@michaelhendricks9462
For example?
While true... fiction can often be just that, fiction! The quote doesn't mean that every conceivable flight of fancy is either possibly realistic or even practical.
Which is why I consider Star wars SciFi AND fantasy as there's no way the Force will ever be real.
@@I.am.Sarah. Star Wars space opera... it's still great science fiction but no where near the sub-genre of hardcore sci fi.
Disney as a weapons manufacturer is something I can get on board with.
I have cut steel with my oxy acetylene torch, and it is called medium duty. I have cut 1/2 inch steel with it and the claim is on a 2 hose system (the one I have ) can be set up to cut 6 inch steel . It is a far cay from a light saber yet most people who have seen me use it are well ... they try to get some distance as soon as it lights up a with a pop. I do not see to many people firing up a light saber, if there was one, most people turning it on, would drop it and run.
I was just watching hacksmith yesterday and wondering when Simon would do a video on lightsabers
Love Simons floating head lmao
Easily my favourite channel on the WhistlerTV Network
I agree Simon, I have said many times star wars is not science fiction, there is very little science in star wars. Star wars is fantasy that happens to take place in space. That being said I still love it.
Interested to see this channel to do a video on anything about Warhammer 40k
Light-saber isn't insanely hot, it is insanely tiny!
The fat glowing plasma we see is only the visible part of a microscopically thin 'blade'.*
The blade is less than a micron in width; some say it's closer to zero...divide energy by zero, cut a world...
Assumptions about how much material is being vaporized in a swift cut are way off; cinematic license and all that.
The hot melty-bits we see on cuts are plasma burns incidental to the actual cutting.
*Dim recollection of Star Wars novel in which an Officer notes 'microscopic cuts' adjacent to burns in Storm Trooper armor as evidence of light-saber damage, rather than a vibro-shiv.
Nerd on, dudes!
Let's not forget the hilarious spoof of light sabers in Spaceballs. They way they are strategically held when activated is a hoot.
If you're going to go with a science-fantasy weapon, consider the power sword from Warhammer 40,000. The sword has a special generator built into the weapon that generates a field of plasma around the blade, so when you hit something the blade bites and cuts into the target, the plasma field begins scorching and melting through the target, and the power field discharges into the target, breaking molecular bonds. You also have the plus of having a metal blade, in the event your power cell blinks off, you can still chop into the target.
Personally, I'd love to have a lightsaber for tree trimming. Imagine a tree crew pulling up and finishing in just a few minutes with no noise.
Thanks again for this video Simon! Really amused. Please do a video on time travel. That would be truly epic hehe
I would also really enjoy Simon's frustration at time travel!
@@Kiefsti yup he might go mental hehe
Simon jokes about the Disney Starcruiser lightsaber, but the real joke is the to stay in a Starcruiser room is 6k USD and the crappy lightsaber is sold separately
I enjoyed this one, as I do all in this series, thanks Simon and writers. I loved Simon's obvious disbelief in this one. Lolz
You're welcome!
"I hate when my Schwartz gets twisted"- Dark Helmet
I bet Simon threw a conniption of epic proportions when Kevin pitched a Star Wars video for the Sci-Fi channel 😂😂😂
We discussed having these in the Master Breachers course and then a few years later the Army declassified the pocket plasma torch. Those things are awesome
People want Lightsabers because it would make you look badass and cool.
Agreed the question about how long until we have them is a weird one. We technically already have all the basics we need except for 1 major thing. Stability. Until we can get the stability of the blade to stay let alone even a cuting edge. we will not have a lightsaber nor even a true proto saber but just a big torch. Even if we get the cuting power and heat to the same level of a blow touch and/or welding tool which would put us close to the level of cutting a lightsaber can do it wont matter if the actual blade falls apart once it touches anything. Thats why its so weird as all we need is really just one piece of tech. A piece of tech that can straighten a flame to a solid or semi solid. Get that add it to the proto saber pack or hilt and boom actual lightsaber/proto saber
In Star Wars humans had been exploring the galaxy for over 100,000 years... that seems like enough time to figure all this stuff out.
I feel like lightsabers (and melee weapons in general) could see a resurgence if another sci-fi tech became real: power armor. It's usually depicted as at least being highly resilient against gunfire but also quite slow and bulky, so the ability to cut through the armor would become very important.
Can we do a video on how plausible teleportation is too.
It's coming!
I saw the first three of the Star Wars series, I enjoyed them but wasn’t so absorbed that I felt inclined to follow the rest of them. But I also never saw it as anything but an entertaining fantasy, it baffles me that people take it seriously enough to try to drag it into the real world. Like Simon says, it’s freakin’ magic. Unlike Simon, I enjoy fantasy and tales of magic, but while I enjoy divorcing myself from reality for an hour or three, I don’t confuse any of it with actual science.
The problem is they all can or do exist, just not the way people think they do. Even Magic in itself, as we look at it is ridiculous, but exist in science and methods, that when explained, is just science. Lightsaber will never be real as it is portrayed, unless that " magic" crystal from that fantastical source, is found. Missing parts of an equation, but we've been here before,(fantasy of going to the moon) so we'll have to just wait and see🤔
There are a lot of science fiction tropes in Star Wars. The main story we follow doesn't focus on that however. While the Force is what makes it a fantasy, alot of hypothetical technology exists in Star Wars. Before they invented FTL travel they began colonizing the Galaxy with generational ships and light sails
Despite being useless as weapons lightsabers would be really useful tools, you could cut through almost any door with sonething you can comfortably carry in your pocket.
Just hit play. Wonder if he'll mention The Hacksmith
Even in star wars lore, traditional bullets were used to beat lightsabers bc Kinetic energy
While the basic conclusion that lightsabers are unrealistic is correct, there is an overlooked way to make them slightly more practical. Have a reactive system that ramps up the plasma temperature only when needed. I.e. when it detects contact it pumps up the plasma temperature.
Like a motor that maintains a constant speed by increasing power when the load is increased.
Love it Simon! How about some about Star Trek tech: like the Tricorder, Transporter system or the reason why red shirts always die?
Phasers as well. The tricorder is a real possibility. Red shirts always die because of plot. That character is basically added to the scene to die instead of a main character that would ruin the show. The transporter would simply kill you and it would suffer from the same flaw as light sabers, it would require a massive amount of energy to operate it.
3:00 The Phantom Menace kind of hint at this with them cutting through the door to escape the gas. It was taking him time to work his way around that door and the actor was putting on a good show of making it look like it was taking him some serious force to push the "blade" through the metal.
My assumption, just based off the existence of vibroblades in the Star Wars universe and their relative similarities in functional damage to lightsabers, is that whatever field is used to project the plasma and keep it contained in the shape of the blade also vibrates at a rapid pace, which would allow for the quick cuts seen in the franchise. Pure speculation of course but it'd explain the cutting power.
@Richdragon Well yeah, I know vibroblades are just vibrating metal, but that was my point. They have similar cutting effectiveness to lightsabers, so my thought was that they adapted either that specific tech or took a similar approach in making the field containing the plasma blade vibrating at a similar speed
His remarks are very true. Magic is a core element of the lightsaber. Even if we approached the technological levels involved in the Star Wars films after many more thousands of years of development then we would still fall short. There are plenty of other technologies we could pursue instead. Shields for one would be great, especially to defend people who want to avoid war and be neutral.
Well, for what it's worth and to give an idea of just how advanced the tech of the lightsaber was imagined to be: In the Legends canon of Star Wars, Spaceships capable of faster than light travel through hyperspace had been around for over 25,000 years before the first lightsaber was constructed. Yes, I love Star Wars :)
All good points. That said, the deflecting plasma bolts is explained by the ability of a force user to move at super-human speed that is faster than normal vision to perceive.
Which...they apparently never do, since the audience, well, *sees* it.
I'd love a video on Iron Man's armour.
I 100% agree with Simon about Star Wars being a fantasy rather than science fiction, I say this constantly. Star Wars is my number 1 IP but it's a fantasy that just happens to be set in space.
Ahhhh fuck .... Simon !!!! You're my power animal !!!
7:45 - just a reminder Simon that Jedi CAN bring swords / sabres to gunfights, as they can use either their Force powers, or the lightsabres themselves to block / deflect projectiles (rather like Neo in the Matrix). 😉
Anyway, lightsabres may be magical sci-fi hokum, but they're still the coolest weapons ever devised (real or fictional).
Well if they brought it to a slugthrower fight it won't do them any good 🤷♂️
The "laser sword" as George put it actually didn't cauterize the wound the first time it was used. If you watch the original version there is blood leaking out from the shoulder we see on the ground. :)
Bringing the blade size down to a single atom wide would help resolve most of the cutting problems. But yeah, the issue is power.
I think a good idea of how it could work is that it's a thin beam of charged antiparticles, (antimatter). When the antiparticles and particles in the air interact they annihilate each other in the time it takes the antiparticles to travel approximately one meter. This process creates the illusion of a one meter glowing "blade" and the hum of the Light Saber. The particles of any object that passes into the antiparticle stream is annihilated (cut) along the path of the antiparticle beam. All light saber antimatter beams have the same charge, so they repel each other.
gamma radiation
and repulsion between particles wont be transferred to handle so you cant block
@@strhtd I didn't know about the Gama Radiation, and I just ignored the lack of repulsion. lol
This is 1 of me favourites so far!
I am a Star Wars nut, yes already knew the Light Saber is super-heated plasma topping 30-50,000°Celcius depending on its colour
Such a shame they won't' ever be made! 😅
When people first began imagining traveling to the moon one of the ideas was a train that could somehow cross the heavens.
So, I guess people back then could have asked, "When will trains take us to the moon?"
Never, of course but what they didn't understand was that by the time our technology could take us to the moon, trains were obsolete. Same with video phones. By the time the technology was capable of video phones, we didnt really want to use phone anymore, video or otherwise.
I predict this is what will become of faster than light travel, by the time we are capable of the technology it will no longer be required. We will be able to teleport to any point in the universe, not travel the distance.
The light sabre, what about a room temperature cooled superconductor hovering about a metre away from the grip with a reflector of some sort on the bottom side pointing back....
Superconductors lock onto magnetic fields, it would have to be a pretty good Superconductor.
Sounds like a good place start.
Fun fact: hyperspace in Star Wars is magic as well, the “scientists” of the Star Wars universe don’t even know how it works they just use certain hyperspace routes, I like to chalk all the fantasy elements of Star Wars up to “any sufficiently advanced science will be indistinguishable from magic”
(I still don’t think that’s a decent excuse for Leia gaining the ability to survive in the vacuum of space, but for the sake of Star Wars fans sanity let’s forget that film happened)
actually, you can survive space for a little bit, until you suffocate, assuming you have the presence of mind to exhale all your air upon entering space. Check out Nerdist and Because Science on youtube.
In all fairness Leia took a bolt of superheated plasma directly to her unprotected arm and instead of her arm melting off she basically just said "ouch" and got on with it. Lucas already established her as being supernatural in RotJ, I don't see why space ought to kill her anymore than superheated plasma would.
Fair enough can't argue with that, I still love Star Wars despite it's inconsistencies
@@WilliamReginaldLucas I love it too but you have to handwave away some stuff for sure and not think too deeply on it.
Dude, You are great.
Obi-Whistler
If only we can create a light Saber powered by AA batteries
I never managed to get into Star Wars (except for that one incredibly bizarre animated Ewoks movie that we rented from blockbuster several weekends in a row…weird that such a thing existed). Anyway, I did learn recently that George Lucas has a love of westerns as well as samurai movies, and that went into the creation of the Star Wars universe. In effect, he took several different settings and combined them into something that was, by many standards, pretty unique. I think that’s kind of cool, in a way, but that’s just me.
My favorite is the hacksmith one where it’s just an extra large torch lighter
Note that an very high powered battery is also an bomb if it discard all the energy at once something it will do if destroyed.
This is why battery fires are an concern with current batteries and this will be much more of an problem with an battery holding as much energy as gasoline as hold more energy than dynamite and it would all be released at once if destroyed. It might replace high explosives if safe enough.
Since we’ve got lightsabers in this one, can we get a Death Star video?
*Edit: if you carefully examine a lightsaber you can sometimes see a “blade” point. It’s more prevalent in the Clone Wars TV show, as the animation style is more lenient.
They did exist. Just in a galaxy far, far away.
Hacksmith had some videos where he and the rest of his team successfully built lightsabers alongside making some updates with them.
Anti matter, likely positrons, in a magnetic bottle in the hilt. Through tiny magnetic conduits out through small holes in the shaft. A small amount leaked out the holes when active will make light as it contacts electrons in surrounding air. Sensors in the blade control the release of more positrons when the blade contacts something. The anti matter in a blade is the same charge as in another so they repel each other when they hit each other. Doesn't sound that demanding. Just expensive to get the positrons and make the magnetic equipment to control it. That's where the crystals come in. They're like powerful rare earth magnets no contain the positrons.
Reply to force who retracted his reply. I suppose he realized his mistake. He claimed antimatter annihilation produces gamma rays, and would be a suicide machine. All light is produced by antimatter annihilation. Depends on the energy of the pair. Gamma rays are produced by high energy annihilation. But that doesn't mean only Gamma rays cause damage. Infrared causes heat damage, Ultraviolet causes molecular damage. Neither of those are anywhere near the energy of Gamma rays.
The National Lightsaber Associate would make sure every house in America 🇺🇸 has the right to own a lightsaber. It’s guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.
Lightsabers only kinda make sense because blasters kinda suck compared to a real world gun. I mean, the bolts are super slow and glow. No wonder they get blocked.
In regards to the power source. Disney had it set where the crystals would power it. Originally, there is a powerful battery near the bottom half of the hilt and it generates the energy to create plasma that would be focused through a minimum of two crystals (one for amplification and the other to refine the shape which also produces the color).
But overall, Lightsabers as a whole will be practically impossible to make as seen in the films.
Guns and swords existed on the battlefield together for like 700 years lol
I had a great time watching this
8:34 nice to see Tommy in a Whistler video.👍
Disney ad played during the video.
Another fantasy setting Warhammer, added plasma swords. They need a backpack, heat resistant armour, and can set enemies ablaze. But that wouldn't do as it would make Star Wars 18+ and Disney wouldn't have that.
The amount of energy necessary to produce, project and shape the plasma at a constant flow to be a melee weapon could be made into a projectile weapon that would be far more potentially destructive by shooting lances of plasma in much shorter duration beams.
Even star wars showed that a gun is more useful than a lightsaber. In the expanded universe theres a planet where jedi engage in combat with local species who dont use energy weapons but classic metal bullets, which cant be repelled by lightsabers. In essence jedis were having trouble defending against bullets
6:05, So it has hsndheld technology that we have in a room (a tokamak)...kinda like a cell phone compared to the buildings full of hardware for the first computers...
Soooo...we're...what, fifty years away? Sweet!
Could they be built using something like photonic matter??
I love Simon's personality change based on which channel.
The Force is *sort of* necessary to use one *safely* , because the magnetic field is so strong it affects gravity or something, plus, the blade is almost completely massless, so balance is a serious issue.
But yeah - all the downsides of a lightsaber are pretty much taken care of with the Force.
I wish I could hear Simon's groan when this one was pitched as an episode.
Even converting the entire mass of a light sabre hilt into energy (e=MC^2), I think it probably still falls short of the energy requirements to continuously fuel a blade at the several million degrees of heat necessary to cut through solid steel in an instant. (...never mind what happens in an atmosphere if anything sizable is heated to "several million degrees"). Meaning: Impossible physics.
IIRC in the star wars Canon the first proto lightsaber was created 25,000 before the events of the original trilogy. If that's anything to go by, it's going to be quite a while before we see a properly functional lightsaber.
Why would you want a lightsaber?
Why wouldn't you? They are rad as hell!
lightwave bending and oscillation thru gravity control all in the space of 3 to 4 feet， oscillation intensity like laser but from the outer hilt to the tip of supposed blade than bends back toward the hilt centre in an endless loop possible only when one can create gravity wells like micro blackholes， first hinted at in SW Source Book，a piece of exposition literature sold some 30 years ago
I just want a realistic prop that has a retractable "blade" and can be used in choreographed "sparring," without breaking.
Perhaps the way you make a light Saber work is to make an atom wide plasma so that it still functions like a sword with pressure
I laughed so hard at Darth Simon at the end of the video.
"Gather Darkness" in of early 1940s "Astounding" since factory workers or miners on strike might swing EDM Plasma torches at security forces.
LOL - if Simon is like that with Lightsabers, I would love to see the opinion on the "Dark Saber" - another equally unrealistic weapon. Or the Death Star or even Snoke's massive flying wing. The thing that gets me with SW tech is how quickly they can build these massive ships and yet still retain a level of secrecy that it surprises the rest of the galaxy . "OMG, where did that planet sized spaceship come from? Didnt see that one coming...."
That's what really bugged me with the latest trilogy. A giant space laser carved into the equator of a planet, and nobody noticed? Any creep with a telescope would have spotted it. Not to mention the massive resources the First Order must have to bounce back from it being destroyed, along with countless spaceships.
I think someone also estimated the cost to build a Death Star weapon, it was more than the entire earth’s economy combined. In order to have the financial resources to build a Death Star, every resource on an enitire planet as far as money and raw materials would have to be utilized. The labor cost can be absorbed by using slave labor but the amount of metal to build essentially a small hollow moon is staggering.
Love the videos Simon, but please please please ask the editors to drop the music when you are speaking. Your diction is very clear- which is very helpful, but there is such loud music in some of your videos that it gets very hard to hear. Possibly my poor speakers - but I can't be the only one with poor speakers or bad hearing. If the music plus talking is a deliberate decision, is there anyway we could interest you in a music free version of the audio? Even if that ended up just being an audio only cut with all the graphics missing as well. Would be a shame, but at least we wouldn't have to keep rewinding or staring at the subtitles.
Telling Star Wars fans that their genre is fantasy and not science fiction is epic. Well played Simon.
Imagine shorting the power source. The power density is insane!
The human body is a bag of water essentially. If a loghtsaber worked like in the movie when it hit a person the would explode in a steam explosion. Like throwing a snowball in a deep fryer....with bones.