Are lightsabers hot?

Pretty much anything that a lightsaber touches is immediately converted to a molten liquid or a charred crisp, and when one lightsaber clashes with another, a flash ensues that is so bright that it momentarily saturates one's entire field of vision. So yes, in addendum, lightsabers are really, really hot!
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Do lightsabers feel hot?

There's no way we can come up with an exact number about how much heat a lightsaber produces. In our world, plasma is known to produce heat in the temperature range between 8000°C and 25,000°C, so it's pretty safe to assume that the temperature of a lightsaber's plasma blade falls within that range.
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Do lightsaber hilts get hot?

On the one hand, they cut through steel, but that could be some sort of chemical reaction rather than heat. On the other hand, characters regularly have them near their skin and clothes with no indication that it's burning them.
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Why are lightsabers hot?

The deadly nature of this weapon comes from the fact that the blade is plasma. Plasma is extremely hot (in fact most stars are giant balls of plasma), and it burns at 10,000 to 100,000 Kelvins, which is about 17,5400F to 179,5400F (9,726.70C to 99,7260C).
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Do lightsabers burn?

As presented in the films, a lightsaber's energy blade can cut, burn, and melt through most substances with little resistance. It leaves cauterized wounds in flesh, but can be deflected by another lightsaber blade, by energy shields, or by the metal beskar. The blade has even been used as a tool to weld metal.
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How heavy is a lightsaber?

George Lucas says lightsabers are heavy

“That we couldn't take a hand off [the hilt]. We always had to have two. It was like Excalibur, 40 to 50 pounds of weight.” Lucas doubled down too, saying “They're very powerful and have a lot of energy in them... so you worked with them as if they were heavy.”
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Is lightsaber cold or hot?

Pretty much anything that a lightsaber touches is immediately converted to a molten liquid or a charred crisp, and when one lightsaber clashes with another, a flash ensues that is so bright that it momentarily saturates one's entire field of vision. So yes, in addendum, lightsabers are really, really hot!
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Can a lightsaber cut Captain America's shield?

There doesn't seem to be a simple answer; after all, Cap's shield is basically indestructible, while the lightsaber can cut through basically anything. Given that Hollywood is unlikely to film a shield vs.
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Do lightsabers run out of power?

Though the lightsaber can charge itself, it does lose tiny traces of power with each exchange. They can eventually run out of power and need recharging. This happens in the Legends novel Shatterpoint, when Mace Windu's lightsaber powers down in the middle of battle.
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Do lightsaber blades have weight?

Judging by the fact that lightsaber blades are solid, we can say that they do have some weight on them. Remember, lightsaber blades are not made of light which is weightless, they are made of plasma. That said, plasma is also very lightweight.
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How hot is a Jedi lightsaber?

A constricted plasma arc can reach temperatures up to 25000 degrees Celsius (45032°F). Given this evidence, it can be concluded that a Lightsaber can reach temperatures of up to 25000 degrees Celsius (45032°F).
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How hot is a real lightsaber?

A constricted plasma arc reaches temperatures between 8000°C and 25000°C (between 14432°F and 45032°F). Given the evidence within the Star Wars universe and our own universe, we can conclude that the plasma blade of a lightsaber reaches a temperature of at least 1800°C, and could be high as 25000°C.
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Can a lightsaber cut Superman?

Because the Sun itself runs as hot as 15 million degrees Celsius at its core, this effectively proves that causing damage to Superman with a normal lightsaber would be ineffective and just straight up wouldn't work.
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Can you cook with a lightsaber?

Lightsabers can make surprisingly good cooking tools. Elegant weapons for a more civilized age they may be, that's not to say that lightsabers can't have noncombat uses. A lightsaber could easily have dozens of practical uses outside of combat, but the one I'll be focusing on today is cooking.
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What can't a lightsaber cut through?

Lightsaber Resistant Materials
  • Amphistaff. These are genetically engineered serpentine creatures native to the Yuuzhan Vong planet. ...
  • Cortosis Ore. ...
  • Felucian Skullblade. ...
  • Mandalorian Iron. ...
  • Neuranium. ...
  • Orbalisk. ...
  • Phrik. ...
  • Songsteel.
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Can a lightsaber blade break?

Lightsaber blades or beams are essentially plasma, a form of matter, so the blade can't be broken at all because it's not solid enough to break; instead, the beam itself would distort or short out if something were to disrupt it.
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Which is stronger lightsaber or Darksaber?

The darksaber is a unique type of lightsaber wielded by the Mandalore but is this one-of-a-kind weapon any stronger than a traditional lightsaber? In specific scenarios, yes, the darksaber is stronger. It is heavier, allowing the wielder to deliver heavier strikes.
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Is there a black lightsaber?

Black is one of the rarest of lightsaber colors, which makes sense since it's a lightsaber and black is a color achieved by the absence of light. Despite this conundrum, there has been a black lightsaber in the history of Star Wars canon — though just one — and it's admittedly pretty amazing.
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Can a lightsaber deflect bullets?

Edit: ^they can't block bullets(slugs) with a lightsaber! Since the slugs are physical projectiles, they'd be easier for Jedi to stop using the Force. Actually, issue #18 of Dark Lord of the Sith confirmed that lightsabers couldn't block slugs…not that it wasn't common sense to assume before then.
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Can a lightsaber cut through Wolverine's claws?

Lightsabers are shown to cut through pretty much anything like a hot knife through blast door, and Wolverine's claws do the same, with the added benefit of indestructibility. However, these properties make it impossible cut into what might really happen.
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Do real lightsabers exist?

In 2020, gadget makers Hacksmith Industries built a 'lightsaber' based on a high temperature stream of plasma that hit temperatures of around 4,000 degrees Celsius. They demonstrated its ability to burn through a variety of materials, if a little slower than the average Jedi master might have time for.
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Are lightsabers physically possible?

Disney/Lucasfilm Exciting news for all you "Star Wars" fans out there — it's possible to construct a lightsaber, according to a physics professor from UC Berkeley.
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Why is a lightsaber impossible?

There is no way for light to have the properties such a sword would require. Light isn't hard enough to repel even another light, let alone long-range projectiles. Researchers from MIT and Harvard found a way to bond photons together in a way that allowed them to behave as though they had mass.
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