Thread: What would happen if...

I'm not sure about the actual scientific physics of it, but light-sabers are really hot. I would imagine hot enough to disintegrate a bullet.
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I learned a while back, that there's no blood from light-sabers in the first three movies, because the heat sears the wound shut. Convenient.

Yeah, i think id rather get my arm chopped off by a lightsaber than a sword

Well if you think that light sabers work with force, which can be considered some kind of dense energy that has taken a form of a sword. If the force is strong enough, it will stop the bullet. Since light sabers and the force do not exist, or at least we don't know about it ;P we cannot determine how much force you need in order to stop a bullet from a rifle or pistol.

Yeah but isnt the theory that a lightsaber is just a big beam of energy. So, since its not made out of matter, then matter can pass through it. I think it would just heat up the bullet and then it would be that much worse for the guy behind the sword.

First of all

the force isn't what powers the light-sabers

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Light_saber

it's a crystal

I see, but as the text suggest, I think that an expert user of force has a stronger blade since constructing a saber requires attunement to the force. Anyway, a force that strikes stronger prevails, so if the plasma generated from the crystal is strong enough, it destroys the bullet.

Yeah but matter cant be created or destroyed, when you say it "destroys" the bullet, what happens to the materials that make up the bullet?

Well if we go this far, I would say it shatters it's structure and turns it to a tiny bits that cannot be perceived with eye nor harm anyone.

What happens if you shoot a bullet into the heart of a dying star or something as hot?

I believe it would disintegrate the bullet.

Light sabers burn so hot that they can burn through basically any material within seconds, and they coagulate blood instantly (which is why you never see blood pour from light saber wounds). The only things I think I've ever seen withstand a light saber swipe, at any speed, are plasma blasts and other light sabers - and I've seen them cut through virtually everything.

It would probably vaporize the lead.

The same question has been asked before

http://boards.ign.com/star_wars/b5072/180738540/p1/

I don't think the lightsaber would be able to stop the mass of the bullet, even though it would melt instantly the movement of the bullet would continue on its path, to the Jedi.

Of course, it would be a loop hole if conventional bullets were used and thus the lightsaber would be fixed with some kind of change.

I don't think a lightsaber would necessarily disintigrate a bullet, at least not instantly. As you can see in The Phantom Menace, when Qui-Gon cuts through the blast door on the Trade Federation battleship, his saber melts the metal rapidly enough, but even if the Destroyer Droids hadn't come to intervene, it'd still have taken him another minute or so to get through completely. So more than likely, the laser would bring the bullet to its melting point more or less instantly, but you gotta remember, bullets travel pretty effin' fast, so the bullet would most likely keep its velocity and hit the jedi in molten form.

In fact, I find it strange that laser bolts travel noticeably slower than bullets. I thought light was supposed to move...you know...at the speed of light?

Originally Posted by Lëzen

As you can see in The Phantom Menace, when Qui-Gon cuts through the blast door on the Trade Federation battleship, his saber melts the metal rapidly enough

Right, but everyone could see the metal didn't vaporize, it visually melted
before our eyes. The bullet would melt going through the lightsaber, and hit the
very unlucky jedi on the other side.

But the Jedi could always steer the bullets away with the force anyways.
Maybe.

All of the information provided came from a legit thought experiment.

So basically we all know how to kill Jedis now!!!!!!

Just do what we've been doin for 800 years!

Originally Posted by Invader

Right, but everyone could see the metal didn't vaporize, it visually melted
before our eyes. The bullet would melt going through the lightsaber, and hit the
very unlucky jedi on the other side.

I think that's what I said.

EDIT: ^Also, there's already a way to kill a jedi. Use a blaster-type weapon that has three or more barrels on it. At most, they could only block two laser blasts simultaneously, but any more would require some intricate dodging that I think simply couldn't be done without some serious contortionist abilities.

Actually, if the lightsabers were hot enough to vaporize the bullets, preventing liquid metal from reaching them, the Jedi would be killed from the heat of the lightsaber.

You can kill a Jedi with a regular blaster, Jango Fett did in episode two.
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I dont believe that the lightsabers are 2,000,000 degrees F. If it were then the air surrounding the blade would heat up and kill everyone in the vicinity. If a lightsaber can melt solids and vaporize liquids, then why wouldnt it interact at all with gas? I can understand if it is like a few thousand degrees, but 2 million degrees is hotter than anything has ever been on our entire planet. It would kill you as soon as you let the blade out.

If a lightsaber can deflect a metal quarrel enveloped in engery from bowcasters, then surely it can deflect regular bullets. The only chance a bullet would have if they were made out of cortosis ore. They would be be able to temporarily deactivate the lightsaber. But of course, most jedi would force-pull the gun out of your hand before you even had the barrel pointed at them.