>>A lightsaber is a handmade technological weapon which generates a
>>tightly focused plasma bottle in a magnetic field. The blade can
>>generate heat within the magnetic field in excess of 2,000 degrees
>>Centigrade, but the magnetic bottle protects the wielder from the
>>heat. The weapon can cut through virtually any known substance, given
>>enough time, although the cuts are nly clean in the sense that they
>>are usually cauterized.
>
>This is marvelously detailed, and has absolutely nothing in common
>with the defined lightsaber technology of the semi-canon Star
>Wars Extended Universe.

The Hitchhiker's Guide is quite frequently wrong on a great number of subjects.

However, magnetic fields are the only known energy-feasible means of getting a beam of energy to bend back upon itself anyway.

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