Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Star Wars' lightsabers

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8 жыл бұрын

"Star Wars" lightsabers are a novel idea. They're lightweight, portable, and their laser-like beams can cut through just about anything. Unfortunately, the reality isn't so simple. Astrophysicist and "StarTalk Radio" host Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how the fictional blade would work in real life.
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@HTHAMMACK1 8 жыл бұрын

Star Wars is not the future Neil. Star Wars is the past. The opening scroll says " A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away."

@judasaservantofjesus3145 3 жыл бұрын

They are vert advanced for it being the past.

@Sensitiveskeptic 3 жыл бұрын

@@judasaservantofjesus3145 the star wars galaxy is not our galaxy. They have developed on a different time scale and share / trade technologies with billions of other species and planets.

@Matt_Fields_29 5 ай бұрын

"The future" in the sense of their technological progress, as their civilization is/was/had existed way older than civilization on Earth.

@gabzpot 8 жыл бұрын

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." Neil, Star Wars is not in the future. It's not science fiction. It's fantasy.

@JohnSmith-rf2xw 8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel Campos Thats exactly what i thought as soon as the video started!

@henria7393 8 жыл бұрын

+John Smith Either way, light years of technological advancement compared to us was the point.

@wujekcientariposta 8 жыл бұрын

+Henri Alphonse is light years as a unit of time here a reference to parsecs from the original trilogy, is it a matter of speech or god forbid you think a light years is actually time?

@henria7393 8 жыл бұрын

Light years as a comparison, something that is a light year away is a very large distance, and differences between us and their technology is "a very large distance" not that hard to understand.

@JohnSmith-rf2xw 8 жыл бұрын

A light year is a measured unit of distance not time. The term you're referring to is the informal definition of the phrase.

@gustavramirez2891 7 жыл бұрын

Because Force users skilled in Soresu will easily block the blaster beams - engaging them in a prolonged lightsaber duel will prove to be more effective in the long-term.

@corporategunner5972 5 жыл бұрын

Because lightsabers is a formal weapon of a jedi, not as clumsy or random as a blaster.

@alexakaa.charlesross8919 4 жыл бұрын

From a more civilized age

@Oyinkan1234 8 жыл бұрын

Blasters can be used by any one but it takes a certain skill, elegance, and force power to properly weird one of the most powerful weapons in the galaxy. This answers his question.

@milliepards96 8 жыл бұрын

Haven't you seen Obi Wan and other Jedi block all those laser blasts from the droid army? That's how they take out most of their enemies other than Sith lords. Deflecting them back at themselves.

@nightpool4946 6 жыл бұрын

everyone, please. star wars isn't science.

@RinWin13 6 жыл бұрын

What do you actually mean by this statement? Because its pretty obvious that a story is not the same as a process of analyzing observations. Do you mean that Starwars inaccurately uses concepts based on science?

@Radiotomb 8 жыл бұрын

I really love the classic Expanded Universe stories. They really are the best of Star Wars ♡

@airzorne 6 жыл бұрын

Well Tyson, Lightsabers are an elegant weapon, for a more civilized time

@corporategunner5972 5 жыл бұрын

If the Jedi used blasters, they would be killed by the Droid army.

@Mikael0 7 жыл бұрын

So uncivilized! (Kenobi's voice)

@danieljoseph255 8 жыл бұрын

I don't think I've ever seen a Jedi fail to block a blaster pulse with his lightsaber. Wake up, Neil.

@TheLastMagic 8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Joseph What the Hell do you think Order 66 was?

@lshaffer1980 8 жыл бұрын

+Havoc Madeniz you are right but when you are general of a battalion of clone troopers and all of them turn on you then we have a problem.

@taimalik1110 2 жыл бұрын

I think the shooter guns used for distance targets probably use up more gamma ray energy faster, as opposed to light sabers, so maybe that's why Jedi knights use light sabers instead, since they are constantly on the move and get into close encounters with enemies....?

@Sinn3246 4 жыл бұрын

Wth, today, 10/31/19 there was a How Lasers Work with NDT. And now it's nowhere, wth YT, did you foolishly delete it for some outrageous against policy reason?

@LeonardoDeVinci1452 8 жыл бұрын

Isn't that how all of the original Jedi died during the clone wars. They where shot to death with blasters anyway.

@barelyprotestant5365 6 жыл бұрын

The fact that Tyson thought that lightsabers were flashlights is rather telling.

@Tomatofury 7 жыл бұрын

they can manipulate the "force" ... that prevents useless storm troopers who can't aim to not fire their blasters directly at them

@Matt_Fields_29 5 ай бұрын

Almost all the characters who use lightsabers are the Jedi and Sith. Everybody else uses guns. So it's basically religious reasons.

@brandonpackard1883 8 жыл бұрын

they are or could be made of "lasers" though and just be called "lightsabers"

@molinodesign 5 жыл бұрын

light sabers , thats called a flash light. idiot.

@meisawesome559 8 жыл бұрын

George Lucas has confirmed that the light sabers don't use photons but instead use plasma and electromagnets to contain the plasma in a tightly-knit arch that appears to just be a single, solid beam.

@joerob5917 8 жыл бұрын

just like halo's energy sword.

@lilliamcruz6778 6 жыл бұрын

Star wars isn't the future is actually the past, it says it every time before the film starts...long time ago in a galaxy far far away

@xXSlyfoxMinionXx 6 жыл бұрын

Lightsabers aren't made of light though. The blade is plasma contained in a magnetic field.

@ziakhan8786 2 жыл бұрын

Star wars uses magic than science i.e. The Force

@nebelrebel1557 2 жыл бұрын

This dude thinks lightsabers are made of light. They emit light, there is a big difference.

@DarkSaint411 7 жыл бұрын

Blasphemer! Bite your tongue! lol

@GeorgeSweet Жыл бұрын

I dont think he has actually watched star wars. Lightsaber beats lazer all day if you have the force.

@ColeTheGreyGhostJedi 2 жыл бұрын

Plasma

@corporategunner5972 6 жыл бұрын

I sense a very great disturbance in the force, as millions of people cried out that Neil Degrasse sucks very bad.

@Ydla 8 жыл бұрын

i love you and all that (no homo) but ndgt fite me

@jordiphilippsen2569 7 жыл бұрын

I think Lightsabers are made out of Laser. In German for example Lightsabers are called "Laserschwert" (Lasersword)

@Sensitiveskeptic 3 жыл бұрын

Right off the bat. Star wars is not the future. Oof

@freddy7349 Жыл бұрын

I guess it would be like a serious case of amazing swordmanship melee, coupled with telepathy. Which if you think about. Really its almost in my eyes like a really badass ufc fight but with everything i mentioned it seems like it would take a skilled master to accomplish. Then again I'm high as balls rn. What do i know? 🤣

@RinWin13 6 жыл бұрын

Come on, Neil... You're losing fans. Starwars has plenty of interesting scientific concepts to analyze and talk about. It might not all be accurate or possible, but thats because its a damn story. He's probably just upset about the hints of an afterlife in the Starwars universe.

@scrpnvmbr 4 жыл бұрын

so uncivilized

@luongmaihunggia 7 жыл бұрын

Laser guns in star wars are a bunch of shit, real laser travel at 300 000 km/s

@luongmaihunggia 7 жыл бұрын

***** star wars wiki said otherwise

@doctorcocktor3482 7 жыл бұрын

redstone craft guy anybody can change the wiki

@ricardoleeper9554 7 жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter how fast they go the way Jedi block blaster bolts (lasers) is by using the force to predict where the bolt will land and blocking that area (this is also how they duel)