{"id":478914,"date":"2018-05-24T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d1ae4e0a941b5034de6d508219b47e17"},"modified":"2018-05-24T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:33:01","slug":"versions-of-han-solos-blaster-exist-and-theyre-way-more-powerful-than-real-lightsabers-would-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=478914","title":{"rendered":"Versions of Han Solo&#8217;s blaster exist &ndash; and they&#8217;re way more powerful than real lightsabers would be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who think physics is boring couldn&#8217;t be more wrong. It can explain everything from spooky interactions on the tiny scale of atoms and particles to how the entire universe behaves. As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, it can also be used to assess how realistic futuristic technology in science fiction is. My area of expertise \u2013 plasma physics  \u2013 can explain many aspects of both lightsabers and the Death Star within Star Wars lore, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who think physics is boring couldn&#8217;t be more wrong. It can explain everything from spooky interactions on the tiny scale of atoms and particles to how the entire universe behaves. As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, it can also be used to assess how realistic futuristic technology in science fiction is. My area of expertise &ndash; plasma physics  &ndash; can explain many aspects of both lightsabers and the Death Star within Star Wars lore, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478915,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478914\/revisions\/478915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}