> I read this science fiction story a long time ago wherein one futuristic weapon was a "wire rapier." It consisted of a metal wire that was only about a few dozen atoms thick frozen in time by some sort of stasis field generatior in the hilt. The blade was weightless, it never dulled or broke, and could cut through most anything.
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> 10"Freezing little sections of the universe in time is where it's all at!"Kan

I know Niven used something similar in his Known Space stories - the "variable knife" had a monomolecular chain ("Sinclair monofilament", if I recall correctly) for it's blade, kept straight by a stasis field.

winter"Was that it?"mute