Timeline for Effect of Width on Plasma Beam Weapons
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| Jan 9, 2020 at 14:21 | vote | accept | Enthu5ed | ||
| Jan 9, 2020 at 7:03 | answer | added | Zxyrra | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 20:47 | comment | added | Muuski | 'adjusting the width to allow the weapon to target gaps in the enemy’s armour' Storm troopers wear armor but it doesn't really seem to do anything, so adjusting for gaps would be a waste of time. Like squishing a bug in the structurally weakest point of its carapace. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 18:32 | comment | added | Mephistopheles | Just to know why plasma swords are a bad idea: 1. They burn your eyeballs to crisps 2. They burn you to crisps just by holding them close 3. Hitting anything with it will result in an explosion, which is pretty deadly to the wielder 4. If Palpatine doesn't kill Kylo, the electricity bills will. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:40 | comment | added | Ghedipunk | The magnetic containment fields just don't work within current understanding of physics. It's soft sci-fi that isn't science based. A plasma sword will have to work exactly how the story demands, since they don't work at all outside of a narrative. Obviously some great stories can be written with them included in the universe, but they are as magical as The Force, The Schwartz, and any other telekinetic powers used in the various franchises that use plasma weapons. (Side note: Why wouldn't we consider the Gungan's plasma shields to be the "wide beam" interpretation of the tech?) | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:12 | history | edited | Enthu5ed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:07 | comment | added | Enthu5ed | @StarfishPrime good point. I will add more constraints to my question | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:05 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | @BKlassen as in the Discworld, the photons of starwars travel at the speed of plot. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:04 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | @Enthus3d it already requires magical super efficient super dense super powerful energy sources. Seems trivial to scale that up a bit. That's the problem with under constrained magic; you can break all sorts of stuff with it. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:00 | comment | added | Enthu5ed | @StarfishPrime good point, the beam can be easily attached to a long spear to extend the reach too, although the energy output in such a case would definitely be more. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 16:56 | comment | added | BKlassen | I mean unless your beam weapons are also inexplicably slowed down to the point that they are easily trackable with the naked eye good luck deflecting something that should move at light speed | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 14:34 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | Why make it swordlike at all? Just have a great big ball-o-death with a handle, point it in the general direction of your enemies and walk forwards. It'll kill anyone you hit with it, it just won't dice them up in a cinematically satisfying way. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 4:46 | comment | added | user6760 | The probability of high energy photon-photon collision scales according to the width but at macroscopic scale that's margin becomes less significant unless you want to deflect laser beam. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 1:19 | history | edited | Enthu5ed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 1:16 | comment | added | Enthu5ed | @Halfthawed I did a search based on that, and there were some nice articles on how to replicate it, thanks for the info :) | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 1:05 | history | edited | Enthu5ed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 0:58 | comment | added | Halfthawed | Lightsabers are actually plasma swords bound in magnetic fields these days, which they swapped to when they realized how impractical a laser sword would be. Plasma swords aren't much better, but it's an improvement at least. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 0:56 | comment | added | Enthu5ed | @Halfthawed good point. Will revise, it is rather difficult to understand the specific mechanics of a laser sabre | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 0:55 | comment | added | Halfthawed | Lightsabers are more or less on the far side of 'hard vs soft' when it comes to science fiction, so the better question is just 'how effective will it be', and just handwave how the build works. For instance, Kylo Ren's saber-hilt monstrosity thing goes against the previously established rules for building sabers, and nobody cared. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 0:49 | history | asked | Enthu5ed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |