Okay, for years I’ve been telling disappointed Star Wars fans that light sabers are probably impossible to ever create, and even if they were, they would never be effective against a projectile weapon. Well, I still stand by the second point, but it looks like I was wrong about the first.

Science trumps the Force to create a real-life lightsaber

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The bigger point is that this could be a completely new type of matter. Wow.