Science: We Can Create Lightsabers, But Probably Won’t

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
September 30, 2013

Harvard scientists have demonstrated that light can be given mass, with photons bonded to create a particle.

This means that technically, it should be possible to create lightsabers. But they are saying they probably won’t do that.

From TechNewsWorld:

The fundamental properties of light derive from the fact that photons, which are the quanta of light, do not interact with one another.

That’s most easily seen by shining two beams of light at each other cross-wise — the beams pass through one other.

“What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other so strongly that they begin to act as though they have mass,” said Mikhail Lukin, a professor of physics at Harvard University.

Light’s ability to behave this way has been theoretically predicted by scientists for some time, although this is the first time experimental proof has been provided.

The researchers’ discovery of how to control the two-photon bound state “could lead to important technologies … even though the details of what the use is are not known yet,” Wendell Horton, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, told TechNewsWorld.