Is there a reason for lightsabers to reflect laser pulses ?

In the case of Star Wars it would surely not be stored in the hilt.
That's certainly not the idea in SW.

What if their hilts aren't just made from steel?

What about some compond that is strong and resists the heat?

It'd have to be stronger than the space age blast doors Qui Gon destroyed.

Cortosis? XD

lol

Yep. Must be. But then why don't sith just have Cortosis chain mail or something?

Originally posted by Tru_Slice
What if their hilts aren't just made from steel?

What about some compond that is strong and resists the heat?

C'mon man! You are throwing the whole concept of the crystal and that shit to the lions! It isn't some bulb that is contained and forced out by magnetism, that's just wrong!!

Scientific reason- no, it's all style.

The working models people have come up with for what sabres actually are over time are many and varied. Almost no-one thinks they are lasers. Or, for that matter, light.

Originally posted by Deus Ex
Blaster bolts aren't lasers. if anything, I recall them being energized and condensed gases or something.

I just though of this: blaster bolts can´t be lasers since we can see the bolt travelling in space, if it was a laser it should travel at light speed what makes it impossible to see. That means we couldn´t see starship lasers too... Man, even the most basic things in SW do not agree with science !

They're not lasers, correct. However, the red bolts we see are actually more like tracers or something to signify where the blast is going. If you look closely and pause the PowerDVD a million times you can see that the asteroids in ESB start to melt and disintegrate before the bolt reaches them, implying that the energy or whatnot discharged reaches its target just before the red tracer does.

A good solution, but why does someone would want to know where the laser is going ? Maybe for aiming better, but the enemies would know where you are shooting at increasing their chances of surviving. Anyway its still a good solution.

Another solution involves particle-wave duality. It is know that if matter can behave like waves(like a laser for example), it is possible to make a laser from matter, scientists in the real world already created electron lasers, hydrogen lasers, and helium lasers. Those lasers obviouly will not travel at the speed of light.

That's true, too. I think I've heard someone suggest that before.

The laser aren't there on purpose. It is a bi-product of the Blaster Gas reaction.

Actually, I think the blasters just shoot metal bullets with so heavy speed, that they begin to glow red on their way out of the barrel. Most of the time the internal supppressor makes the shot sound squeaky and bright, but on the first Deathstar Leia shoot with a blaster that was lacking a suppressor. It made a nice "bang!" sound. Proof enough? =P

Maybe the whole "melting asteroids thing" is a fluke in the movie?

Originally posted by Atlantis001
A good solution, but why does someone would want to know where the laser is going ? Maybe for aiming better, but the enemies would know where you are shooting at increasing their chances of surviving. Anyway its still a good solution.

Another solution involves particle-wave duality. It is know that if matter can behave like waves(like a laser for example), it is possible to make a laser from matter, scientists in the real world already created electron lasers, hydrogen lasers, and helium lasers. Those lasers obviouly will not travel at the speed of light.

Don't forget, plasma is also matter.

Originally posted by Sesse
Actually, I think the blasters just shoot metal bullets with so heavy speed, that they begin to glow red on their way out of the barrel. Most of the time the internal supppressor makes the shot sound squeaky and bright, but on the first Deathstar Leia shoot with a blaster that was lacking a suppressor. It made a nice "bang!" sound. Proof enough? =P

And if they do, then what's with the colour variations?

I thought blaster bolts were condensed beams of light traveling at high speeds.

They're condensed gases travelling at speeds slower than lead bullets.

Superheated gas is where the blaster bolts come from. That's why Bespin makes a lot of money: Tibanna gas.

I always like Bespin, so like us.