How Real Life Star Wars Blasters Work | Plasmoids, Spheromaks & Plasma Railguns | Physics vs Film

With Solo: A Star Wars Story coming out, I figure out how to make his trusty blaster pistol work using the actual laws of Physics. How would it fare against a real life lightsaber?

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00:27 Why blasters aren't lasers
01:26 Blasters as plasma weapons
02:12 What are plasmoids?
03:16 Spheromaks - how to blaster bolts contained
04:47 Plasma railguns
06:33 How blasters do damage
07:03 Would lightsabers deflect blasters?
Links for more information

How to make a lightsaber and why it'd explode in a battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nt16ZvGjAM

How lightsabers would fare against lightning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdEbjH-Lu4k

What is Plasma?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SoKuW1-Yf4

Plasmoids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid
http://www.ipp.mpg.de/kugelblitz

Spheromak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak
https://www.aa.washington.edu/research/HITsi/research/spheromak

Plasma Railgun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_railgun
Music by Jesse Jace Thomas, Otaka Gang, and Rameses B

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