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Happy May the Fourth! Would it be possible to build a real lightsaber, just like what they have in the movies? Probably not! But the things keeping us from getting to have our very own bzzt bzzt blades might not be what you think they are! Listen in to find out potential ways scientists have been trying to come up with to make lightsabers a reality!

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• https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightsaber
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• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space
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• https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/23/05/23/pdf
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• https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-18-5-4518&id=195984
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• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02575.pdf
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSNubaa7n9o
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• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330838691_Finally_the_finite-length_lightsabers_of_Star_Wars_are_possible_if_equipped_with_sufficient_energy_capacity_and_good_materials
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