Originally posted by truejedi
Red: Yes, we would assume the rocket would do it, but it doesn't.Love that, and yes, the reason for gravity is unknown. It has recently been suggested that it is not actually a fundamental law, and that it behaves differently in different situations. THAT is freaky.
That's puzzled me...that is, why gravity even exists.
Originally posted by truejedi
Red: Yes, we would assume the rocket would do it, but it doesn't.Love that, and yes, the reason for gravity is unknown. It has recently been suggested that it is not actually a fundamental law, and that it behaves differently in different situations. THAT is freaky.
Wouldn't it have to be a fundamental law, in that it is a fundamental force?
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/science/fundamental-forces-and-chopping-wood
that is a bit dry, but hopefully it will point you to other more to the point sources.
I disagree that doing physics is like chopping wood. It is a bit more like meditation, if you ask me.
The part that was really interesting was this:
could be obtained from an entropy maximisation principle.
Re: Ways to attack Jedi/Sith that blaster wielding foes don't seem to use that often
Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
With two pistols, you could fire one high and one low at the same time.
With multiple soldiers, you could fire at the same time in different spaces instead of taking turns to fire.
You could use a shotgun that fires in a spread.
You could use automatic weapons.Or possibly Jedi/Sith/other Force users have a counter to all of these.
The best projectile weapon against Jedi are the concussive weapons the Imperial Remnant were using during the Jedi Outcast and Academy periods. They seemed to be almost like Gravity guns (Half Life) or force guns (Dead Space) - unblockable projectiles.
And slugs can be deflected with TK manipulation. A jedi wouldn't need to be a remarkably strong force user to put up a wall of TK to deflect small projectiles.
it really wouldnt, in fact calling up the force shield would be much more practical.
exerting force on a specific bullet to change its directory would mean that you cant defend yourself from it until after its fired from the gun. no jedi has the reflexes necessary to focus on a .5 inch invisible object moving at the speed of sound before it hits them, regardless of how easy it would be to change the directory.
and not only that, but you would need to do it multiple times in some cases. you would have to do it so fast that by the time the next bullet exits the barrel and is speeding toward youre already done with the first bullet and already focusing on the next. thats not happening, for any jedi.
thats also not counting shotguns, which scatter into dozens of pellets when shot, meaning that you would have to change not just the directory of one invisible bullet moving faster than sound, but dozens of invisible pellets moving at the speed of sound. also not happening.
Obi-Wan didn't seem to have much trouble at 1.40. You could argue perhaps that they weren't moving as fast as actual bullets, except that actual guns do exist in Star Wars and Jedi have dealt with them before.
That Jedi have ways to deal with bullets. A simple Force barrier can stop them. They could always just Force speed out of the way of the shots as well.
Also Luke and others deal with shotgun blasts in DN iirc. Either with the Force or with their lightsabers. Most of the insectoid bounty-hunters etc utilise them.
apparently not, considering prior to that obi-wan took like 6 punches to the chest and couldnt do a thing to stop them. also the "bullets" in that scene werent moving even a quarter as fast as real life bullets do. your edit doesnt actually refute that point. if jedi have stopped fully automatic bullets in midair then post it...
so they have a way to defend against, like, blow darts...