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Granted, Star Wars enthusiast, violinist extraordinaire Taylor Davis could've put in a bit more effort on the costume; but hot dang if she can play a tune. What's not to love about some intergalactic musical madness?

Wicked Lasers, the same crew that diabolically attached a frickin' laser beam to a frickin' shark earlier this week, are offering up the most laser-tastic cornea-scratching lightsaber model on the market. You probably shouldn't hit anyone with it, or for that matter even look directly into the blade itself, but that's not going to stop you, is it?

Happy Star Wars Day! Honor the Jedi within by checking out our Star Wars-themed Cheezburger site!

Welp, that's fire.

From MNN

To the dismay of "Star Wars" fans everywhere, physicists have long cried foul about the science of building real-life lightsabers. According to conventional physics, photons don't behave like regular particles of matter. They are massless particles, and can't interact with one another. It's therefore impossible to build anything out of light with a solid structure, such as a lightsaber.

But a breakthrough new discovery from researchers at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms could change everything, according to phys.org (link provided below). They have discovered how to make individual photons interact and bind together into molecular structures. Not only does this represent a whole new state of matter, but these light molecules can potentially be shaped to form solid structures — in other words, lightsabers!

-Phys.org