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  • From lightsabers to the force and mind tricks the Jedi are a force to be reckoned with even against the best of superheroes

  • But with the new Star Wars The Last Jedi trailer and movie coming out soon not to mention EA's

  • Battlefront 2 debacle we started wondering whether or not the Jedi could actually exist hypothetically. Could

  • humans ever have or obtain some of these capabilities? First up are the Jedi's incredible reflexes,

  • which could be linked to seeing the world in slow motion,

  • along with their ability of foresight. When you're put in a dangerous or stressful situation

  • time often seems to slow down, and this is because your brain begins taking in much more information than normal.

  • But even in these moments your reflexes and time perception

  • hardly compare to some other animals.

  • If you've ever tried to hit a fly you might realize that what is a really quick swat on

  • your part is easily avoided by the fly and that's because the fly actually perceives it as slower.

  • Scientists use the point at which a flickering light is seen as one

  • continuous light as a marker for visual sensitivity.

  • And it turns out flies can see light flickering at a rate nearly seven times faster than we do.

  • For them, one second actually

  • feels longer.

  • Scientists believe that perception of time co-evolved with how fast an animal moves, how quick their metabolism is and how big their bodies are.

  • After all it doesn't make much sense for your brain to take in so much

  • information if your body can't physically react to it in time.

  • As a result

  • leatherback turtles only get about 1/3 of the information that human brains do in one second. Dogs on the other hand can see about

  • 25% faster than humans, making our TVs look like a set of flickering lights.

  • But with improvements in vision sensitivity jedi-like reflexes could become possible.

  • But it would only matter if you could physically react fast enough.

  • Otherwise you would just be seeing something come towards you slowly with no means to actually stop it.

  • While the force is a somewhat mystical

  • and elusive concept in the movies, it touches on some ideas that scientists have long tried to explore.

  • Ancient Greeks actually believed in a fifth element that connected everything in the universe and even Isaac Newton proposed a concept of our brains

  • interacting with something called ether that was all around us,

  • which could potentially give us psychic powers. And while the force is described in many different ways Obi-wan suggests,

  • "It's an energy field created by all living things it.

  • Surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together."

  • This sounds in some ways like the electric fields that exist in and all around us.

  • Human brains for example emit brainwaves, a form of electromagnetic radiation that travels at the speed of light.

  • This is released from the activity of thousands of neurons simultaneously

  • firing at the same frequency.

  • And many animals are actually optimized to sense this electricity, like the platypus.

  • It catches prey in murky waters at night with their eyes, ears and nostrils all closed and instead using its bill covered in nearly

  • 40-thousand electro-receptors to detect the micro volts of electricity that their prey emits.

  • Even human cells have the ability to detect electric fields though

  • not consciously.

  • But perhaps with some genetic engineering our acute awareness of this force could become more pronounced.

  • Speaking of electricity, many members of the Sith are able to shoot lightning out of their hands.

  • And there are certain species of fishes that do something similar.

  • Consider the electric eel capable of producing up to 600 volts of electricity. These fish have evolved electric organs at least

  • 100 million years ago by converting muscle cells to electro sites.

  • Instead of simply contracting to release a small amount of voltage like normal muscle cells do

  • electro sites actually push ions across a membrane in order to create a large flow of positive charge,

  • ultimately creating an electric current allowing them to release a shock at will from several feet away. Perhaps through gene modification

  • technologies like CRISPR a version of these electro sites could be created in humans allowing for electric capabilities.

  • Now theoretical physicist Michio Kaku thinks that we do have the materials and technology now to make a lightsaber. Just those technologies need to be upgraded.

  • Light sabers are weapons of powerful compact energy that can cut through anything with a few exceptions like another light saber.

  • Dr. Kaku's design consists of a blade made from superhot plasma, one of the four fundamental states of matter

  • where air is sucked into the base of the blade and is superheated to create a six thousand six hundred and forty-eight degrees Celsius plasma.

  • An electromagnetic coil would be used to control the plasma while a telescopic ceramic rod,

  • which shoots out of the handle and can resist the as temperature holds the blade all together.

  • Where does the energy come from? In the handle of the lightsaber are trillions of nano batteries that power the plasma generator and

  • Dr. Kaku thinks of this technology could be ready in the next 50 years.

  • The Star Wars films state that those with a high

  • Midi-chlorian count are actually much more in tune with the force.

  • Midi-chlorians are a microscopic life-form that resides within all living cells.

  • They live inside me.

  • George Lucas has suggested that this was based on the idea of

  • mitochondria, an organelle found in all eukaryotic organisms that helped supply energy, cellular differentiation,

  • cell growth, and many other tasks. And while most of your cells have their own DNA in the cell nucleus,

  • mitochondria actually have their own genome in DNA, which is more similar to a bacteria.

  • Lucas used this as a metaphor for how without symbiosis whether it's cells or entire organisms working together life couldn't exist

  • Now if being more in tune with life simply meant having more mitochondria

  • it could be as simple as doing more exercise. A study that had seniors complete a 12-week exercise program found that skeletal muscle

  • mitochondrial DNA increased 53 percent after training. Of course we have no real reason to believe this would do much else.

  • Unless George Lucas knows something about the mitochondria that scientists don't.

  • George

  • Many Jedi are able to employ a type of

  • telekinesis through the force, and while there's been a lot of interest in the idea of moving objects with your mind

  • scientific research has not produced reliable, repeatable demonstrations of telekinesis.

  • So you can't levitate an object with your mind,

  • but we have been able to manipulate the force with technology. Though

  • it goes against intuition, non-magnetic substances can be levitated within a magnetic field.

  • Physicists have been able to levitate animals, like this frog using a high magnetic field as living things consist of diamagnetic molecules like water

  • Proteins and bones and the tiny forces these molecules give off allow them to levitate.

  • Finally the Jedi are able to use Jedi Mind Tricks to implant suggestions,

  • which is perhaps most closely linked to hypnosis in our world. The ability to respond to suggestions.

  • Though it typically takes time to induce a person into a hypnotic state and hypnotizability itself is a spectrum where not everyone responds.

  • But as we move into the future and start potentially putting technologies into our brain

  • another route may actually be possible.

  • This mouse has fiber optic cables wired into its right motor cortex,

  • which controls movement to the left. As soon as the light is shot into its altered neurons it cannot help

  • but run to the left. Its thoughts and actions have been hacked.

  • As humans continue to enhance their bodies and brains through

  • technology brain hacking akin to Jedi Mind Tricks may become a major concern.

  • Connect to the reward centers of the brain and now you can control how someone feels.

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ジェダイは存在するのか?(スター・ウォーズ・サイエンス) (Could The Jedi Exist? (Star Wars Science))

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