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The Shocking Truth of Lightsabers vs Lightning | Physics vs Film

2,429 views · Published 14 December 2017 · 8:15 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: Martin Archer · 2017 · Science & Technology

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We've seen on this channel that a real-life lightsaber is possible in principle using magnetically confined plasma blades, though these would explode in a lightsaber battle. But how would the weapon fare against a (force) lightning attack?

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00:27 How to build a real-life lightsaber
01:46 Lightsabers vs Lightning in the movies
02:04 Lightning electrification
03:48 Ionising the air into plasma channels (ft slow motion Plasma Globes and Van der Graaf Generators)
05:35 Lightning Rods
06:00 What would happen if lightning hit a lightsaber?


Links for more information

How to make a lightsaber and why it'd explode in a battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nt16ZvGjAM

What is Plasma?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SoKuW1-Yf4

How lightning works
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/lightning.htm

Lightning Electrical Conductivity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0021916964901291
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-8949/80/03/035901/meta

Plasma Conductivity
https://www.quora.com/Does-plasma-physics-conduct-electricity 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics) 

Electrical Conductivity of the human body
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/205485/what-makes-human-a-conductor 

Being hit by lightning
https://gizmodo.com/5936361/what-happens-when-you-get-struck-by-lightning


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