Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), left, and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor),right, take on powerful Sith Lord Darth Maud (Ray Park) in a fierce lightsaber fight in this scene from "Star Wars: Episode I "The Phantom Menace." Scientists from MIT and Harvard have figured out how to make lightsabers a reality. jr/Keith Hamshere/Lucasfilm UPI | License Photo

Scientists have figured out how to bring the lightsaber from a galaxy far, far away to one much closer.

Researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new state of matter that they say looks a lot like the lightsabers used in "Star Wars."


MIT professor of physics Vladan Vuleti and Harvard professor of physics Mikhail Lukin led the study.

Unlike typical lasers, they used what they call "photonic molecules." Rather than pass through each other, photons bind together, creating said molecules.

The scientists said they think the interactions between photons will probably not be useful as Jedi weapons, but they will aid quantum computing in the future.