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Good job, Prospero. I would like to add that lightsaber somehow 'cycle' their power, which is why the high-energy blade doesn't just short out after about an hour. Basically, the blade cycles power from the blade back into the power cell when it's not actually cutting anything. Although this doesn't TOTALLY recycle all power, it can be left running for months I believe without running out of power.
High levels of energy generated by a high-output Diatium power cell was unleashed through a series of focusing lenses and energizers that converted the energy into plasma.
Once focused by the crystals, the plasma was sent through a series of field energizers and modulation circuitry within the emitter matrix that further focused it, making it into a coherent beam of energy that was projected from the emitter. The blade typically extended about a meter before being arced by the blade containment field back to a negatively charged fissure ringing the emitter, where it was channeled back to the power cell by a superconductor, completing the circuit
Due to the 'containment field', which I believe is magnetic in nature, little or no energy escapes very far from the blade until it touches something. It is this field which deflects blaster bolts, not the blade itself. However, I read a lot of the books, and I will reference one of the old qui-gon and obi-wan books.
Basically, Obi-Wan had a slave collar on. Qui gon was unable to just hack it off with his lightsaber, even if done carefully at a low setting, because it would still lethally scorch his neck. Besides the transference of large amounts of thermal energy to the collar, the blade does, by itself, emit heat. When touching something, it emits more. Another example; In the New Jedi Order series (and in some other books) lightsabers are noted to smell like burning ozone, and also that when near someone's skin, usually a face or limb that they've blocked, it has been noted to burn skin or hair, or that they can feel the heat emitting from it.
Now, a Tungsten 'Durasteel' bullet, yes, that does by your calculations seem as if it wouldn't be blocked easily, if at all. However, I feel I should point out that we do not make bullets out entirely out of tungsten or even steel very often. We use lead.
A lead bullet's melting point is approx 600 K, and vape temp is 179.5 kJ·mol−1. So by your calculation that would melt at least a little, if not vaporize.
Although I also think lightsaber might be hotter than you think. Although it can cut through durasteel, they do it rather quickly and can cut through even tougher materials as well. Battle droids are durasteel plated to the point where actual metal do little or nothing, but lightsabers go right through them. Though blast doors take a bit more time, a lightsaber was still able to put a giant smoking orange-hot hole in one by stabbing it and leaving the blade in.
Any opinions?
High levels of energy generated by a high-output Diatium power cell was unleashed through a series of focusing lenses and energizers that converted the energy into plasma.
Once focused by the crystals, the plasma was sent through a series of field energizers and modulation circuitry within the emitter matrix that further focused it, making it into a coherent beam of energy that was projected from the emitter. The blade typically extended about a meter before being arced by the blade containment field back to a negatively charged fissure ringing the emitter, where it was channeled back to the power cell by a superconductor, completing the circuit
Due to the 'containment field', which I believe is magnetic in nature, little or no energy escapes very far from the blade until it touches something. It is this field which deflects blaster bolts, not the blade itself. However, I read a lot of the books, and I will reference one of the old qui-gon and obi-wan books.
Basically, Obi-Wan had a slave collar on. Qui gon was unable to just hack it off with his lightsaber, even if done carefully at a low setting, because it would still lethally scorch his neck. Besides the transference of large amounts of thermal energy to the collar, the blade does, by itself, emit heat. When touching something, it emits more. Another example; In the New Jedi Order series (and in some other books) lightsabers are noted to smell like burning ozone, and also that when near someone's skin, usually a face or limb that they've blocked, it has been noted to burn skin or hair, or that they can feel the heat emitting from it.
Now, a Tungsten 'Durasteel' bullet, yes, that does by your calculations seem as if it wouldn't be blocked easily, if at all. However, I feel I should point out that we do not make bullets out entirely out of tungsten or even steel very often. We use lead.
A lead bullet's melting point is approx 600 K, and vape temp is 179.5 kJ·mol−1. So by your calculation that would melt at least a little, if not vaporize.
Although I also think lightsaber might be hotter than you think. Although it can cut through durasteel, they do it rather quickly and can cut through even tougher materials as well. Battle droids are durasteel plated to the point where actual metal do little or nothing, but lightsabers go right through them. Though blast doors take a bit more time, a lightsaber was still able to put a giant smoking orange-hot hole in one by stabbing it and leaving the blade in.
Any opinions?