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Light saber was noticed by the viewers 40 years ago as a trademark weapon of Jedi in the iconic movie Star Wars. According to the movie, it is this blade that maintained peace in the Galactic Republic. Light saber became of weapon of choice of many after the epic fight between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Wader. Since then, there has been numerous attempts on perfecting the lightsaber. However, which technology can be used to yield it? This curiosity made the scientists reverse engineer it and to come up with possible ideas to make one for real. Scientists have discovered a way to clump photons in such a way that they take a form of lightsabers as we see in the movie, said a researcher, said Wired

As per the latest news from Harvard and MIT may have sounded like a joke but it is not. A team of physicists somehow manage to clump the particles together that formed a molecule that is unlike any matter. After it takes the form, it behaves like a lightsaber. This experiment conducted by Physics professor from Harvard Mikhail Lukin and MIT physics professor Vladan Vuletic. Together, they exploded photons through rubidium atoms cloud. When they released more than one photon once, these particles stuck together to form a molecule. "It's not an in-apt analogy to compare this to lightsabers," said Lukin in a press release. "When these photons interact with each other, they're pushing against and deflect each other. The physics of what's happening in these molecules is similar to what we see in the movies," according to Gizmodo

Even though this a big breakthrough, the physicists do not intend to use their newfound discovery to build futuristic weapons. Instead they want to use it to build efficient quantum computers. "What it will be useful for we don't know yet," Lukin reportedly said. "But it's a new state of matter, so we are hopeful that new applications may emerge as we continue to investigate these photonic molecules' properties," as reported by Fox News