May the ponderomotive force be with you! That’s the effective force of an ultrashort laser pulse swooping through a plasma, as explained by researcher Axel Huebl from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division at Berkeley Lab in this video. Check out other fun science that ties into the lore of the beloved fictional Star Wars universe. 

Ten Stage Laser-Wakefield Accelerator (WarpX @SC20/ISAV2020)
Axel Huebl from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division at Berkeley Lab  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBDPSQsBRz0

Want to learn the science of the Death Star? Learn how Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have designed plasma optic to combine laser beams and produce a superbeam:
https://www.llnl.gov/article/43791/plasma-optic-combines-lasers-superbeam

Los Alamos National Laboratory
May the Fourth be with you: how Star Wars inspires science
https://researchlibrary.lanl.gov/posts/may-the-fourth-be-with-you-how-star-wars-inspires-science/