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Your both correct. In order for a lightsaber to get hot enough to do what they do, it would need to be a point articulated laser Generated plasma. That's the only way to generate line temperatures of > 1 Million Kelvins. (Suffient to cleave through.....anything.) Of course, that's all just after exp...

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