I would like to share an engineering idea I have for real sabers. This is mostly speculative, although the science is pretty sound, and I have some experimental reasons to believe it could work, although there would be a great deal of research needed to actually bring it to reality. Anyway, it's rather interesting, if you're into lightsabers and all...
In the early 20th century, Serbian inventer Nikola Tesla did a great deal of work with electrical arc producing apparatus. Several of his lines of research led him to discover a means whereby an electrical arc may be given the characteristics of solidity and rigidity.
He found that the arcs would begin to take on these qualities as the frequency increased. We are talking about extremely high frequencies here. I'm sure the waveform is important, too. You can research this in Tesla's work, but there is not a great deal of info on this to be had, just a mention of the effect.
Another contribution made by Tesla to the idea is the concept of the rotating magnetic field. It utilize's the phase differential rotation principle.
My blade emitter design is as follows:
The inner electrode is surrounded by a circular outer electrode as illustrated. The lower orange portion represents the superconductor which is being utilized as a magnetic mirror. The outer brown ring represents the stator coils. An AC voltage is applied to the electrodes at the lower end of the Tesla Effect range, which in conjunction with the introduction of certain materials into the arc stream provides us with the 'Tesla Effect' plasmoid arc, or tesloid.
Here is a possible design:
The AC we are applying has a phase relationship such that it confers rotation to the tesloid, at an extremely high rate of speed, so that a virtual field is created, as in the right portion of the figure. This 'field' would appear solid in appearance as well as effect, due to its extreme rate of spin.
As the tesloid rotates, the magnetic field it creates is reflected from the superconductor underneath and the tesloid is repulsed in the opposite direction of the emitter. As the tesloid continues to expand, the AC is modified towards the higher end of the TE and power range, and the field repulsion in conjuction with this allows for the growth of the blade.
Please note - this is NOT a 'containment field'. It is merely the principle used to elongate the blade.
At full extension, the AC reaches its peak for power, speed and TE.
I'll be posting a website in the not too distant future which will be devoted to my reseach with this principle and a more in depth explaination and discussion.
Enjoy!
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