You forget, after adamantium has been heated to a liquid once, it will never melt again (I don't get it either, but it is cannon I believe) Therefore, the heat of the light saber would just make it rather hot, but it would not make any cut.
Can a lightsaber cut through adamantium??
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Phrik alloy can be cut, it just takes a few tries to do it. Beskar, on the other hand, is definitely the biggest problem to a lightsaber. Cortosis can cause a feedback loop that shuts it off, but it's so fragile that the force of the blow might make it crumble.TimeLord said:
Regarding the actual question about Adamantium vs. a lightsaber: I must admit, I'm stumped. There are certain metallic alloys that can resist it quite effectively, but it's also a magical weapon and not purely a technological one since it heavily involves the Force. the Force, being the wildcard that it is, leaves me with more questions than answers. I guess I'll offer this: if a non-Force adept is using a lightsaber, I think that the adamantium would win every time. Versus a Force Adept with a lot of focus and power to put into the weapon, it might make the adamantium able to be cut. That's my theory, hope it helps!
I would like to make this speculation.
Could it be in the star wars universe, Cortosis weaves, vibro blades and the like are in fact, Made of adamantium? Perhaps improving on the comic book recipe to varying degrees. Which could then account for why sometimes you can cut through it, sometimes can't?
Could it be in the star wars universe, Cortosis weaves, vibro blades and the like are in fact, Made of adamantium? Perhaps improving on the comic book recipe to varying degrees. Which could then account for why sometimes you can cut through it, sometimes can't?
No, Adamantium's indestructible. Even if it could, in a fight against Wolverine and lightsabers, Wolverine will kick the other guy's ass. If lightsabers can cut through adamantium, it'll take awhile, and in that awhile, bad things will happen to the wielder of the lightsaber.
What type of Adumantium? Wolverines? Because if so, there wouldn't be a chance to cut through it.....you'd already be dead 
Yep, there's actually several materials within the SW EU a lightsaber can't cut through. Few mentioned here - http://www.torocast.com/index.php/editorials/item/379-lightsabers-pt1TimeLord said:
Can go by more than one logic:
- Lightsaber can cut through anything but the certain listed materials (see above), adamantium not on the list - it can cut through it
- Unstoppable force, immovable object logic - above logic applied, but in the X-men universe, adamantium can't be cut by things, lightsaber included so - it'll either reflect or go right through it, either way, not cutting it
- What I find most reasonable though - adamantium can be "shaped" when in it's molten form, which is at very high temperatures, but can't be cut through when cooled. However, since a lightsaber effectively heats it up, I'm guessing it would look something like Qui'Gon cutting through the blast doors in Phantom Menace - a slow process where the adamantium would slowly melt and while it wouldn't be destroyed by the lightsaber, it could be cut through for the purpose of going through an adamantium door, cutting an adamantium limb off (although with the time requirement, it'd likely require the subject incapacitated first, so not necessarily useful in fast paced combat) and such, leaving the portion of the "cut" adamantium puddling down for a small while (think liquid Terminator
) until it cools off and becomes solid again.I dunno. Maybe we should just have Stan Lee and George Lucas dress in cosplay and beat the hell out of each other until one of them gets knocked out. Then the winner can write the "Wolverine VS Darth Maul" comic
I write software for Ultrasound systems and based on what I've learned, I think that a light sword might be a feasible technology. An ultrasound probe could easily described as a "sound sword". An array of transducer elements generate little chirps of sound waves which are carefully delayed so that over a narrow "sword-shaped" range the waveforms augment each other while in other places the waves are uncorrelated and cancel out. It's not too big a stretch to imagine that a similar thing might be done with light waves. In that case, it's not that the photons travel for a distance and stop, it's that the separate bursts of protons keep going but are uncorrelated.
While I have seen a theorised lightsabre made out of plasma (they can't use light 'cos the beam would go on forever, like out into the universe style), they used magnets to control the plasma. It was quite interesting programme to watch.Sam_Winchester said:
Since I am not a wolverine fanboy I have no idea how heat resistant the metal is, but I have seen that Xmen were the woman gets injected with it, so it seems easy to make into a liquid.
I would say it would cut it with ease 'cos plasma is silly hot.
i think we are missing a very valid point, if theoretically a lightsaber could cut through wolverines adamantium, wouldnt his "human" skeletal/body structure just repair the damage done by the lightsaber. what im saying is his human skelton would simply rapidly heal and replace the damaged adamantium with bone. the adamantium could then be repaired at a later dateSam_Winchester said:
Hell, Luke's lightsaber bounced off Vader's shoulder with just a few sparks in Empire. It's just a fancy laser sword.
If a lightsaber is hot enough to almost instantaneously turn bone into mist, it is more than likely hot enough to, however slowly, melt the adamantium. Although there is of course only one way to truly settle the argument... GEORGE!tologna said:
On a side note, the metal with the highest melting point is tungsten, which melts at less than 4000 degrees Celsius, and the plasma in the sun is at 6000 degrees celsius, and it is relatively safe to assume that: lightsabers are at least hot enough to turn nitrogen (main stable component in a life-supporting atmosphere) into plasma, and that nitrogen does not turn into plasma all that easily. In fact most solids boil well below 6000 degrees... I don't think Wolvy is gonna win this one...