We’re one step closer to building a lightsaber: Scientists work out how to get light particles to stick together

  • Scientists could someday build objects out of photons in super-chilled gas
  • Photons act like charged particles when placed in a cloud of rubidium atom
  • in 2013, scientists found they could bind photons sit on top of each other
  • New study claims that by tweaking the binding process, photons may be able to travel side by side and form into objects such as lightsabers

Your dream of becoming a Jedi Knight may not be as ridiculous as you thought.

Scientists say they have taken a step toward building objects out of photons in super-chilled gas.

The findings hint that weightless particles of light can be joined into a sort of 'molecule' with its own peculiar force.

Some even hope the breakthrough could lead to a Star Wars-style lightsaber, although the physicists say this still remains outside the realms of possibility. 

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