Light Has Been Made Solid Paving The Way For REAL LIGHTSABERS

[Hellgeist]

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/26/light-solid-lightsabers-nature_n_3996982.html

Thoughts?

[Silver Serpent]

a vacuum chamber, laser beams and a cloud of rubidium atoms cooled to near absolute zero

Well, that sounds like a hospitable location for a lightsaber fight. :D

[TrypWyr]

Well, that sounds like a hospitable location for a lightsaber fight. :D

Would probably make fighting on Mustafar a little more bearable! :D

[TheSilverDark]

Hehe plus it'd be like hitting a metal baseball bat with another one, they'd keep bouncing XD

[Robust Stardust]

This would be very cool indeed :P Also, I love that the researcher's name is Lukin.

[setelf3of5]

one day...they will have it down, science loves to make things from Movies/TV real, even if it takes decades.

[TimeRender]

A solid object made of photon molecules will not glow like a lightsaber. We observe light when these photons reach our eyes. By turning them into solids we prevent the photons from traveling and reaching our eyes. An object made of photons would likely have visual properties very similar to any other solid object.