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[Star Wars]Why energy weapons don't behave like lasers should?

Why blasters in star wars don't shoot continuous beams, like lasers in real world.
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I think officially the Expanded Universe stuff claims that the use of the words "lasers" and "turbolasers" is a misnomomer that just got popular in-universe and that in fact, like blaster sidearms, they're not lasers at all.

What, exactly, blasters are is one of those hard things to pin down.  Some Expanded Universe stuff describes them as particle beams, other stuff describes them as plasma guns.  The latter seems marginally more believable, particle beams should move near light speed while a plasma projectors wouldn't have to.