People always claim that lightsaber blades don't have any weight, but if that's the case, then how do they physically clash with each other? When they do clash, why does it seem to be a matter of strength to determine who wins?
>>62658250
Just because something has mass doesn't mean it's heavy.
>>62658282
Dumb ass faggot
>>62658282
So they do have weight, they're just not very heavy?
>>62658250
It makes sense in a sci-fi sort of way---lightsaber blades are supposed to be plasma confined by EM fields, so maybe there's some interaction that pushes the blades apart
>>62658339
Photons have mass. George always called them laser swords so I guess they have weight. Just not a lot.
ITT dumb faggots trying to explain sci-fi (science FICTION)
its Science Fantasy
The need for the force to control them and them not having weight is just fan theory/EU bullshit. If anyone ever uses one in film, they're going to be treated just like regular swords. Finn is probably going to be swinging the thing around in TFA so that should put this to rest.
It shouldn't make sense for them to have weight but it's magic fantasy space science, so they do.
>>62658432
Photons have zero rest mass.
You ever put two of the same ends of a magnet together?
>>62658250
aw you will physics someday op
>>62660625
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/photon_mass.html
>>62658250
>People always claim that magnetic fields don't have any weight, but if that's the case, then how do two like poles repel each other even if they don't touch?
>>62658250
Wait?
They canonically have no weight?
That's fucking dumb.
if it has a magnetic field then it would have an atmosphere. THat's why Mars lost it's atmosphere after the core stopped turning.
they look heavy in the OT
>>62658339
In From Star Wars To Jedi, the making of Star Wars documentary, George said the light sabers weighed as much as heavy medieval broadswords, which is why the fighting styles were as they were in the original trilogy
>>62660676
Which says "Photons are traditionally said to be massless."
Experimentally, the upper limit on their mass is "The new limit is 7 × 10−17 eV."
Photons have zero rest mass.
>>62658250
Because even though the blades don't have any weight, they still project a force when something comes in contact with it. Usually, that force doesn't matter much because it's slicing whatever it's in contact with, but in the case of other light sabers, they clash because their two forces meet.
>>62658589
The whole "Needing the force to use a light saber" actually just meant you need to have the force in order not to cut yourself into pieces and control the odd sensation of the saber properly and expertly.
>>62662072
Rekt
>>62658250
a wizard did it
>>62662206
>There are people on /tv/ that think any duel in the prequels is better than this
Fuck this place
They have energy and through the relation E=mc^2 you can see what the mass equivalent of swinging them around is.
because
THEY AREN'T REAL YOU FUCKING VIRGIN
>>62658250
Lucas told Hamill that lightsabers are heavy like Excalibur and you have to use both hands to swing it.
It's like trying to push a long skinny force-field through another long skinny force-field. So they butt up against each other and stop. The blades themselves are weightless but controlling a powerful magnetic field takes some strength.
Fuckin' lightsabers . How do they work?
>>62658250
They where supposed to be very heavy and unwieldy, reinforcing the idea that it was truly a weapon of the past (because blasters)
That's also why Luke always carried a pistol with him.
But Lucas was starting to show his assburgers in episode VI and by that time they went for a more spectacular coreography, which hindered the heavy lightsaber thing a little bit.
By Episode I the weight already seems nonexistent, and I think we can consider Episode II the absolute worst lightsaber battle.
light has no mass, yet its linear momentum is not zero.
The field that holds the blade in place is what's clashing
Did you even watch gundam
>Star Wars
>Science Fiction
Pick one.
>>62662206
Somebody post that webm of Obi-Wan and Anakin spinning the lightsabers at each other without hitting anything.
>>62666533
>>62662206
>>62666583
Like night and day.
Only explanation I can think of is that Lucas has undiagnosed dimentia.
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>>62658282
you're a fucking retard
>>62665756
>It's like trying to push a long skinny force-field through another long skinny force-field.
so is fucking ur mum
>>62662206
because the actors were told to think of it as heavy swords
>>62662206
Thanks for the webm. I want to go watch the OT again so bad now.
It's magic+future science.
Stop pretending to be an autistic retard.
>>62658250
How much does the force weigh? It's able to push and pull things.
>>62662206
This is garbage, why does anyone pretend it's good? Look at Vader's tiny t-rex arm swings cos he can't move his shoulders with that cape.
Embarrassing.
>>62658444
>"fantasy can't follow the rules of physics xD"
Just end yourself, dumb faggot.
Whether the blade weights nothing or very little doesnt make any difference. They use force to give their swings power more than physical strength.
Of course in most cases this whole lightsaber thing doesnt make any sense anyway.
Why would Windu charge attack like that? All he had to do is move his hand slightly forward and stick his lightsaber in Sheevs face.
