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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2439468" data-attributes="member: 5143">Funny, I had the exact opposite reaction that you did.  The midichlorians make sense, whereas the Jedi Detectors did not.The point of the Force, as per all the movies is that it in an energy field that is created by all life (as per Yoda and Obi Wan).  It obeys your commands, but it also controls you.  It works both ways and without life, there would be no force.Now, essentially, all the midichlorians are are microorganisms that exist in ALL life forms and nowhere else.  They are creatures in an of themselves, however they link symbiotically with the cells in other creatures.  Without them, cells would die.  At least, in Star Wars.What does this mean to the Force?  Nothing really.  Which is exactly why the idea makes so much sense.  All it means is that the more of these in your blood stream, the greater your connection to the collective life force of the universe known as The Force.  Each person with a lot of midichlorians still has to learn to control the connection they have.Since life creates it and it only surrounds life, it make sense that the method to control it would come from life.  Essentially, if you replaced every time Yoda mentioned "life" with "Midichlorians", it would make perfect sense and since midichlorians only exist in life, and all life has it, it would be true.On the other hand, a device that detected the force in someone seems a little far fetched to me.  (Then again, almost everything Kevin Anderson wrote, I disagreed with)  If it was that quantified, then people wouldn't treat it as a religion.  On the other hand, I can still see an entire culture that said "So, you say that these microorganism in our bloodstream allows us to communicate with an energy field you call, 'The Force'.  Riiiight."  Since the only correlation between Midichlorian count and Force powers would be Jedi who were tested, and all of them already had force powers and believed in it, it meant there is no third party way to verify what makes those people special.But, if a device exists to "detect" Jedi, then it would mean that anyone could SEE that Jedi were different in some way.  Keep in mind, Force powers are not about having an "aura" of force around you.  The Force is everywhere.  It is about having a stronger connection to control the Force around you.  Therefore, there is nothing to detect, except within the Jedi.</blockquote>

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