>It's too bad Robert Brown's website was shut down; he had a nice page
>of various explanations for lightsabers including the plasma theory,
>though the one he decided on was much different.

*shrug* Since the one presented in all the various Extended Universe materials is consistent and identical, and is just pseudo-scientific enough to be plausible in the space fantasy context of Star Wars, that's the one I accept as canon until and unless it's contradicted by material in Attack of the Clones or Episode III. Since Lucas isn't into doing such explanations on-screen, apparently preferring to leave it to the semi-canon work of the EU designers, I doubt that'll happen. (Granted, since Kevin J. "Lemur on Crystal Meth" Anderson was the misguiding hand for much of the post-ROTJ EU continuity, it's not necessarily very good design work.)

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