Be Mindful of The LIVING Force, my young padawan.
"The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.
It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it.
It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with.
It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.
The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this:
'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God,
'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
"'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it?
It could not have evolved by chance.
It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
"'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,'
and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man,
and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book, Well, That about Wraps It Up for God.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
QUI-GON:
I need an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you.
OBI-WAN:
Wait a minute...
QUI-GON:
I need a midichlorian count.
OBI-WAN:
The reading's off the chart... over twenty thousand.
Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high!
QUI-GON:
No Jedi has.
OBI-WAN:
What does that mean?
QUI-GON:
I'm not sure.
QUI-GON:
... He was trained in the Jedi arts.
My only conclusion can be that it was a Sith Lord.
KI-ADI:
Impossible!
The Sith have been extinct for a millenium.
MACE WINDU:
I do not believe the Sith could have returned without us knowing.
YODA:
Ah, hard to see, the DarkSside is.
MACE WINDU:
We will use all our resources here to unravel this mystery and discover the identity of your attacker...
May the Force be with you.
OBI-WAN turns and leaves, but QUI-GON continues to face the Council.
YODA: (Cont'd)
Master Qui-Gon - more to say have you?
QUI-GON:
With your permission, my Master.
I have encountered a vergence in the Force.
YODA:
A vergence, you say?
MACE WINDU:
Located around a person?
QUI-GON:
A boy...
his cells have the highest concentration of midichlorians I have ever seen in a life form.
It is possible he was conceived by the midichlorians.
MACE WINDU:
You're referring to the prophesy of
The One Who Will Bring Balance to The Force...
you believe it's this... boy??
[ NOT YET. ]
QUI-GON:
I don't presume...
YODA:
But you do!
Revealed your opinion is.
QUI-GON:
I request the boy be tested, Master.
The JEDI all look to one another. They nod and turn back to OBI-WAN and QUI-GON.
YODA:
Trained as a Jedi, you request for him?
QUI-GON:
Finding him was the will of The Force...
I have no doubt of that.
Ani... I'm not allowed to train you,
so I want you to watch me and be mindful...
... always remember,
your focus determines your reality.
[ LAW OF ATTRACTION ]
Stay close to me and you will be safe.
ANAKIN:
Master, sir...
I heard Yoda talking about midichlorians.
I've been wondering,
What are midichlorians?
QUI-GON:
Midichlorians are a microcopic lifeform that reside within all living cells.
ANAKIN:
They live inside of me?
QUI-GON:
In your cells, yes... and we are symbionts with them.
ANAKIN:
Symbionts?
QUI-GON:
Life forms living together for mutual advantage.
Without the midichlorians, life could not exist,
and we would have no knowledge of the Force.
They continually 'speak' to us, telling us the will of the Force.
When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear them 'speaking' to you.
ANAKIN:
I don't understand.
QUI-GON:
With time and training, Ani... you will... you will.
" You don’t get it - SPECTACULARLY.
On at least 3 or 4, possibly up to half a dozen different levels, you’re just wrong in every way, in every respect, on every level - starting with :
1) There is no contradiction between the “two explanations”, as you call it - it’s exactly the same explanation : it’s a MYSTICAL energy field, as in, it’s unseeable, undetectable, unobservable, a non-local spooky-action-at-a-distance transmission-medium.
This is real, “Real World” science - nobody has ANY IDEA how Quantum Entanglement transmits identical symltaneous information to two mutually entangled particles thousands, millions, even hundreds of trillions of miles, or even light years sepearated from one another - but the precise reason lies somewhere in the higher dimensionality of Maxwell’s Field Equations, and the established phenomena of an induced flow of current (I.e. charged particles) in a given direction through a suitable medium (copper wire) by either linear motion, or rotation of the charged particle medium of transmission (the wire), between two oppositely charged magnet poles, in a direction perpendicular to (at 90* right-angle turn away from the direction and lines of force (flux) between the two opposing poles generating a magnetic field orientated perpendicular (again, at 90* from) the plane of the copper wires’ motion/rotation, which induces the flow of energy and linear movement of the electrons through, and along the wire -
