Why Don't Lightsabers Burn Your Hands Off? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
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We’ve covered many aspects of lightsabers but by popular demand, we are doing another. With how powerful lightsabers are, why don’t they burn their holder’s hand? Kyle answers the heated debate on this week’s Because Science!
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This is the literally the only show I watch on Nerdist. You rock man!
+Joji Chinisi (and fiction!)
Same. I'd subscribe but give literally zero fucks about anything else the channel puts out.
Same
there are other shows on this channel?
+HobbyAlchemist yep, but who gives a fuck
Hint for next week: It is exactly rocket science. -- KH
Is it Ksp
How Iron man's hand/foot propulsion systems work?
Something involving the rocketeer
Team rocket!
How does Superman fly?
whoever edits this show is a legend. so good.
My new editor Charles is straight-up awesome at his job. -- KH
+Nerdist Absolutely. Here's to you, Charles.
Surprise light saber was not surprising 1/10 IGN
hahahaha -- KH
I re-itterate my original theory. That the light saber actually uses forcefields around the laser/plasma to create the saber - not simply exposed plasma.
cool video Kyle but star wars fans already knew that it was a magnetic field keeping the blade contained. it says it on the wookiepida page.
+Kirsty Shadowdancer He covered this in earlier videos. They'd probably use _magnetic_ fields to coral the plasma. So kinda like forcefields.
thorin to much water
how does 'bending' work in the 'avatar: the last airbender' ?
Midicholines
dumb idea man, kh isnt here to watch a series and go over the parts you forgot, hes here to teach us something and call out the nerds that say "lightsabers are so dumb, they would melt your face wahhhhh"
Magical kung-fu.
telekinesis. this is completely a theory with no backing but I think benders just have a understanding of telekinesis and depending on where you were born you'd be able to move earth or bend air or combust oxygen into fire or move water and avatars are like savants who are naturally gifted with an ability to do all instead of just being locked into what ever they were around but that's just a theory
science friction did an episode on this (and it was super cool)
@Nerdist There is a simpler science. If you've ever used (I have) a plasma torch for cutting steel, aluminum, titanium, etc. you know that you can but the material all day without gloves and yet your hands don't burn. The distance from the torch tip to your finger on the trigger is less than 3 inches. The air is of such low density that the heat doesn't transfer effectively. Of course you will burn your hands if you touch the material you've cut within a couple seconds, or if the tip touches the metal and causes a spray of molten metal. Plasma torches cut around 20,000 degrees so probably close to lightsaber temperature.
This guy makes this show what it is. I don't watch it unless he's involved, he his one attractive man.
I'll allow it. -- KH
30 years ago my brother asked me this and I was puzzled. (of course I was 5 years old) 20 years later, I thought exactly what he has said in this video. Nerd Alert..Omega Mus. Back to reality. I remember the Farce a-Fakens, when it was A New Hope, Jur"ass"ic(k) Park and Independence Day. (Aliens coming here will never happen and if it did...we'd be gone way before we knew about it.) Back to reality.
+HaNooo I was talking about the wings in space. Carry on.
***** SENPAIIIIIII ~~ lol jk, no homo, bro.
Congrats on the 100th show. Keep it up, I only subscribed recently but I absolutely love what you do man I can't wait to see what happens in later episodes
How does it stop a blaster?... Ideas for next video
Great question. If there are going to be a hundred more videos we can have a couple more lightsaber ones. lol
The shot from the blaster is the Tibanna gas brought to a condition of plasma. Its containment requires a magnetic field. The magnetic field of a sword pushes away a magnetic field of a shot.
Wait, shouldn't that make the Jedi fly as far away as the blast then. Imagine Kenobi flying away like the lady at then end of Django unchained everytime he deflects a blast :P.
Though in all likelihood, that's probably part of the basics of form 4 (?). Sense the blast, apply counter-force with the Force (heh) to not go Wile E. Coyote, then deflect the blast.
Azmodeus87
The blaster isn`t kinetic weapon. In the theory weight of a shot shouldn`t be big.
P.S. Thanks for the picture about flying Kenobi. XD
Dan Nounov Ok, didn't knew that.
PS: Np, add a Willhelm scream for maximum looneyness :P
Congrats on 100 episodes, man! My brother introduced me to this show a few months ago and I've been hooked ever since. Here's to 100 more 🍻
Thank you Isa! -- KH
Every Star Wars video by Kyle is just me giggling to myself and waiting for that SURPRISE LIGHTSABER!
Kyle,
Congrats on 100 episodes...love the videos...thanks for all the interesting topics and cool facts...keep up the good work...
So Kyyyyyle....While the blade of Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber would not have ignited his robes.....
What about the heat of the molten metal of the blast door?
the lightsaber could heat up things inside the magnetic field
i have yet to see a blacksmith burst into flames.
Yes but a blacksmith doesn't use plasma to heat up metal
Awesomeman sure they do, you never heard of a plasma cutter?
yunthi you usually wear alot of protection not highly flammable robes
This channel is what makes my Thursdays. Keep up the good (nerdy) work!!!!
Thank you so much! -- KH
Congrats on the 100th episode! I really love videos like this and hope u keep making them!😄
Congrats on 100 episodes! Well deserved; one of my most favorite science shows. 😊
When you were talking about the wings being useless, I was about to comment, "because of the atmosphere!!" But then you brought it up, so I felt better😂
Ikr lol
+DRANIX Yeah, that is a little weird. I've never thought about that. How does the millennium falcon fly in the atmosphere w/o wings? Kyle...?
if youve got enough thrust i guess you dont really need proper wings -.-
anyway, about the wings in space:
the one thing you could argue here is mass distribution in regards to creating a more stable rotation axis. at least for why you would bother having wings at all while in space. it still wouldnt explain why you would want to get your X-wings in attack mode for assaulting a death star tho :/
maybe in the case of the X-wing its just that the laser cannons are mounted at the tips of the wings and you want them to be in proper X-configuration for the targeting software to work
could be anti-gravity
+erbgorre Yeah, that all sounds about right
There are many ways to justify Fire Breathing Dragons. But... is it possible to have also Ice Dragons? With cold breath or something similar? And what about other possible elements?
Shoddycast austin and nerdist kyle working together would be unstoppable
Thanks again for making these great educational and extremely entertaining video Kyle HIll and Nerdist. Happy 100th!
I've been a big fan of the show for a while. definitely the best show on nerdist
Thanks Dan! -- KH
who are the 2 people who disliked... and why
The guys who got their hands cut off.
then how did they click?
+Jared Alonge with their dick
Noses. -- KH
dicks out for harambe
Very interesting, and keep these coming! Also, props for the cutting and special effects. Keep it tight :)
I'm ready for 100 more man. I love these videos. especially when I see something I have questioned but never really found answers to. keep it up please. I really do enjoy because science.
When ever I watch starwars 7,I always think that BB-8 is actually flipping off Fin. I dunno why.
Hahahahhaha i see what you mean
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. :-)
I know, right? Since BB8 doesn't have fingers, it is up to the viewer to decide if BB8 is giving Finn the thumb or middle finger with his lighter. Since they were not friends yet, I saw it as the middle finger.
Especially given the position Finn put BB8 in, I thought it was the finger, it just makes more sense with the scene.
Is the middle finger or thumb gonna be the new "who shot first?" of this trilogy?
So if the saber blade is made of high temperature plasma trapped within a super strong magnetic field, what happens if you try to cut metal? What happens if you turn it on anywhere near iron? What would have happened to Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber if those blast doors were actually made of steel? #needsmorescience
Probably that polarities are fundamentally different, making "normal" magnetic field interactions invalid. That or if my understanding of magnetism is right, two different magnetic forces attract each other and join under one single field. So if the lightsaber and the door come into contact, their magnetic forces "merge" together and heat from the plasma blade can be transmitted to the door, hence cutting through/melting the shit out of it.
Nothing like that steel bar railing at 0:43
Well i would think due to the heat of simply touching the metal it the heat given off would bring it to the point where magnets wont affect it anymore
What would happen to the steel depends on if the light sabre is hotter that burning jet fuel or not ;)
Alan T OH WOW XD
Congrats on 100 eps. hope to see you around for another 100
Been here since the beginning. Love your show, Kyle. I can't wait to see what other sci-fi questions you end up answering in the future.
SOO i got a question, how come when people get hit by the blasters in starwars, they seem to be thrown back by the laser that the blasters shoot.
because for one thing theyre not shooting lasers
This video has better special effects than the prequels.
BOOM -- KH
Agreed
LOL
Oooooooo sick burn!!! Literally!
and a much better script than The Force Awakens
Happy 100th Kyle, keep it up and God Bless.
congrats on EP 100 ! thats awesome ! keep it going 😸
Surprise Lightsaber!
tempechure.... tempechure... it's TEMPER A TURE
In most american dialects it's pronounced with three syllables.
+PolyJohn this^
***** I'm pretty sure that's how *most* people in the US say it.
I say it "Temper Chur" and while I hear that a lot I also hear "Tempah Chur".
lol @Cameron Hachtel I pronounce it as temp ra cha :P (I'm Australian if that helps any)
Congrats on the 100th show. Keep on keeping on and let anyone change you. You are good no matter who you are.
Congrats on the 100th ep!!! Keep up the great work, and may the force (of gravity) be with you. Usually.
SURPRISE LIGHTSABER
but the question is why are star destroyers pointy
Triangles are scary
Flatland's inhabitants like this element.
Maybe it's like an icebreaker for huge dense gas nebula's since they are more the long journey ships where you do eventually hit things like gas and rocks in space.
Aero dynamics? Gas clouds in space maybe.
Could be an attempt at making it look better, along with the fear factor. Rebel and Republic ships show us that rounded and/or junky looks aren't very scary.
Practically everything in earth's past has had looks put into consideration. I once watched a tribe in Burkina Faso (Africa) making iron tools for the first time in 60 years, out of ore from the ground. The elders were building a temporary clay furnace, and they began smoothing out the clay. The camera man, himself related to this tribe, asked why they were smoothing it out. The elder said "So it looks nice". That sums up a good tenth or more of decisions made in history. Things which look nicer are simply better. People with good looks have good genes and are objectively, more likely to be good people and less likely to carry disease or genetic problems.
And an army with better looking equipment and more colorful banners is more imposing and has more of a sense of pride and unity.
The next rock you pick up will probably be decided -in part- by how it looks compared to the others lol.
Congrats on the 100th show! Because Science was what introduced me to Nerdist and is still my main reason for subscribing. Keep busting those myths! (Oops...I crossed the streams again...)
You introduce a lot of new concepts to me. Love the videos
What the set look like?
A black void stretches out in every direction. -- KH
And your the bright center sent there to enlighten us all?
You still broke Pokemon Go Kyle!
I DID NOT, IT BROKE ITSELF -- KH
+Nerdist I still love you though KH.
+Nerdist i got one..
if Captain America's shield absorbs kinetic energy, would it actually bounce and ricochet off of walls?
+Ryan Knapp I'm sure Kyle has said that it wouldn't bounce and just fall to the ground as soon as it hit something.
Congrats on 100 episodes. Good stuff.
Congrats on 100th episode! My son and I love watching it together!
So i just thought of something, if superman is powered by the sun, does he ever get sunburned?
the sum would just heal him before he gets sun burn
Yes but can he get burned by the yellow sun at all? Maybe if it was a red sun where he loses all his powers and becomes human.
keygoshima No sun burn but he did get sun poisoning. Basically he got poisoned from being thrown and kept in the sun. Then again I might be wrong. This is old info I haven't looked up in a while.
Why don't lightsabers burn your hands off? Well, a canonical fact is that Lightsabers aren't hot....
Tell that to everything they literally melt. -- KH
The Kyber crystals properties allow the blades to cut through any material, while also remaining a cool temperature. Try to explain that with science. :P
OK, Kyber crystals aren't a thing. -- KH
Where is that from?
I suppose the point of this show is trying to explain how things would work irl, because science, so I'll let it pass. But as a heavy star wars nerd I would make points.
Congratulations on a hundred episodes! Keep rocking it on the next hundred.
Congratulations on your 100th show! They've all been great whether I care about the show or movie the episode is inspired by.
First
Yes you are! Second!
This was awesome!!! Love your videos so much! Keep up the awesome work!!! 😄😄😄😄
Congrats on the 100th episode, can't wait for the next 100!
love this show learn a lot from you. please keep them coming.
2:59 gonna make this my ring tone
Id go with 2:30 myself
Love the new editing tell your editor great job :D
Happy 100 episodes!
Happy 100th episode Kyle and #BecauseScience! Here's to 100+ more! Keep up the great work and knowledge!
Congratulations dude!!! It's been a pleasure watching every single episode.
Hey, man! Congratulations for the 100 show! It`s simply amazing!
congrats on the 100 episodes!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏
but here is a question is the cricket gun in MIB able to make a explosion as big in the movie or would it not work at all?😕
this was awesome..thank you so much I love this so much. keep doing what you so man
Congrats on 100 episodes!
Congratulations on 100 episodes! I love watching these with my 12 year nerd!
CONGRATS FOR THE 100TH EPISODE!!!♥♥♥
I'm so effing happy!!!
Congraturations 100th episode! Thank you for the great show, i enjoy it with my kid.
Love your channel! Keep it up please!
I've had a great time watching with my two girls ages 9 and 11. They want to share your videos with their teachers. Keep up the awesome work.
loved your videos, keep up the great videos
Congrats on 100!
Yay! Congrats on 100!
Good job man keep it ur the best at these
For what it's worth, my head canon is that the wing shape is primarily about balancing weapon layout with aerodynamics for atmo flight. X-wings and B-wings have variable geometry because it allows them to change the position of their weapons, which gives them some sort of advantage in-universe (even though tie-fighters have to small blasters and seem to work just fine...). Instead of using VG, the A-wing has blasters on swivel mounts (IIRC) but it's compact lifting body design would probably give it great handling in both atmo and space.
congrats on a hundred great episodes
Congratulations on 100!! :D
The thing you said at the at the end also makes sense because the design of the engine placement and the shape of the star fighter can change the performance of the star fighter
In your analysis you talk about magnetic fields. How would these fields interact in a light sabre duel/fight? Like would they hold their integrity or try to merge, or lose integrity, or did the movies have in more or less right according to your description?
Also, LOVING the series! Please keep up the good work!
congrats on 100 episodes, Kyle. thank you so much for your nerdy, scientific and entertainmently (not a real word, right?) funny content. let's celebrate another hundred.
HAPPY 100TH EPISODE!!! I send these to my science teacher who is a good friend of mine now that I graduated.
Thanks for 100 great episodes and here's to 100(00) more!
Congrats to the Because Science team for your 100th episode! Keep up the good work!
I love this "Because Science" Show, thank you for doing such a great job Kyle! Looking forward to seeing the next 100 topics :-)
now I feel all hot an cozy inside! THANKS FOR ALL THESE GREATE VIDEOS!!!! ...sorry got a bit to exited there
Congrats on the 100th!!
Your show is one of the only things I watch consistently on this channel, and at this time is probably my favorite.
KEEP IT UP! YOU'RE A GREAT CHANNEL TO WATCH!
Thanks Kyle for all the great, informative, and of course, FUN videos!!! 😃☺😉😄😁
Happy 100th Episode!!! Also I think the strange wings on the various spacecraft is also to keep main and backup systems away from each other during space fights.
love you Kyle hope to have hundreds more Because Science episodes
Love the show!
Congratulations 😊
Congrats on 100 ep
Make 100 more!!!!!!
This segment is awesome!
Many more hundreds. This truly is a great and entertaining show. Mixing a lot of our favorite fandoms with science really works well so thank you.
woaah sweet, congrats on the 100 dude!
Awesome brother! Glad you have made it too 100 eps!
I love the because science series you put on. It's very awesome, fun, and informative. I have a question though. Is the hologram technology from the YU-GI-OH anime series possible?
Happy 100th! I love this show. Here's to the next 100!
That was frankly amazing. Good job.
Congrats on the 100th episode, Kyle and the Because Science team!
I just love your videos man!
Happy 100th Episode this show is amazing!
Congratulations on 100!