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Has there been an official consensus yet on the weight of lightsaber beams?
Has there been an official consensus yet on the weight of lightsaber beams?
I don't know if there is or will be an official stance, but the staff (from my reading of comments that have been made) seems to be inclined towards the original trilogy idea that lightsabers do have weight.Has there been an official consensus yet on the weight of lightsaber beams?
the original trilogy idea that lightsabers do have weight.
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It wasn't so much the original concept as it was that's what the actors were explicitly told. Mark Hamill has talked about it a lot. He and the stuntmen inside of the Vader costume wielded the props as if they had heft like a real sword.I think it has something to do with GL's original concept when commenting on ANH...however im not too sure.
Different materials for a lighter heft. Yoda's was significantly smaller as well. A rapier, a sword build for speed and agility, obviously doesn't weight as much as even an equivalent longsword.I always thought lightsabers weighing a lot was kind of dumb. It would contradict smaller jedi like Yoda being able to wield a lightsaber (whether you like it or not) so easily and make Ashoka and Assajj insanely strong for their size.
Different materials for a lighter heft. Yoda's was significantly smaller as well. A rapier, a sword build for speed and agility, obviously doesn't weight as much as even an equivalent longsword.
A weapon doesn't have to be weightless to be utilized with speed and agility in mind over physical strength. This can even be further compounded by utilizing the force increase their dexterous abilities, as well as their physical strength, as well.
I'm not following you on why are you assuming plasma has no mass. Via the basic laws of conservation the mass of the volume of plasma contained within the field is the same as the mass of the fluid that was excited to plasma state. This could be lighter than air or notably heavier.
Plasma density is usually given in terms of particles per volume, because that's generally more applicable, but that doesn't mean it lacks actual weight.
Also, if m approached zero in e=mc^2, e would also approach zero due to c being a constant value, a large one granted, but not large enough to mathmatically play with 0 and infinity.
Here you have a real world application of plasma in a manner somewhat similar to what we see with a lightsaber. Its mass would be negligible. If there weren't some kind of magnetic field holding the plasma in place it would diffuse and be equivalent to blasting someone with really hot air. The article I linked to also explains pretty elegantly why it would make more sense for Jedi to use this type of weapon as opposed to your typical bro.