Zampano:
1. I'm currently downloading Crystal Star so I'll be able to post the passage in a short while but I'm pretty sure it was a direct manipulation of the molecules, and while they are indeed Skywalkers, they were still children with limited training at the time, they performed it in a controlled manner suggesting it wasn't an out of ordinary, greater than usual exhaustion of their full potential, and that it was a demonstration of precision would also rely on a significant level of control (as well as power), something not derived from their strength in the Force. Interestingly enough though, now that I'm looking at the passage from Dark Rendezvous again I'm pretty sure what you're suggesting could actually be said for Dooku in this scenario:
"Mantises squirmed and hunted in the vision over his desk. He snapped off the holocron and consulted a monitor.
"Ah. Our latest batch of guests is arriving. Loyal beings and true, for the Trade Federation cause and a ten percent profit. Go meet them at the door. You always make such an impression on visitors."
"Don't patronize me," Asajj said coldly.
Dooku looked around. "Or what?"
Her face went pale. Dooku lifted that one finger, and this time he tapped it in the air, as if pushing a needle into a pincushion. Ventress crumpled to her knees. Her voice came out clotted with pain.
"Please," she said. "Don't."
"It doesn't feel very good, does it? Like sharp stones in your throat and chest."
Dooku made another little patting motion, and Ventress slammed to the tile floor.
"It's the blood vessels I hate," Dooku said. "The way they stretch inside, like balloons about to pop."
"P-p-p-please..."
"But worse than anything is the memories," he said, more softly still. "They crowd around, like flies on meat. Every despicable thing, every petty vice, every little act of spite."
A cruel, strange quiet stretched out as Ventress panted on the stone floor. Rain ticked against the window glass, and the Count's soft voice went dark and far away.
"All the things you should have stopped, but didn't, and nothing will ever be right again. And the things you've done," he whispered. "By the pitiless stars, the things you've done..."
The comm on Dooku's desk beeped. He shook his head, like a man waking from a dream.
"The Troxan delegation is at the door."
Ventress crawled to her feet. Her face was bruised and her cheeks were wet with tears. Both pretended not to notice.
"Tell them I'll be right down," Count Dooku said."
Nothing suggests that it was a direct manipulation of her blood vessels or that it was anywhere near as precisely performed as you've described.
2. Even if Dooku did directly effect her blood vessels or not Vergere's display would still be significantly more impressive. The difference in scale is pretty huge.
3. Not that I'm the most knowledgable individual on the subject but do sub-atomic particles not exist in the real world? This seems to suggest as much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle. And even if they didn't, they would exist within the Star Wars Universe regardless, and the scale would still operate within the confines of an atom.
Nebaris, Dooku's display is not precise because it takes place on a small scale. Mere scale is not the deciding factor. Rather, a feat is impressively precise when error in any direction ultimately dooms the effort. Thus, from the textual description, Bane's feat is very impressive because the margin of error is so slim. Veregre's, depending on the description of the feat, may have been similarly impressive. (Depending on what exactly the book says that she manipulated.) The Skywalkers' feat is not impressive or an indication of skill because they could have poured too much energy into the endeavor, or too little, and still met with some success.Dooku's applied TK is impressive, to me, because if he had pushed to hard he would have utterly ruined Ventress. Her body would be utterly annihilated. The effective range of force he could apply was so small, and the consequences of a mistake were so great, that success seems quite impressive indeed.
I'm not sure we disagree on this matter. What you're saying is that the impressive nature of these displays of precision relies on their ability to distinguish objects of a certain scale from anything around it? Well that's essentially what I'm saying as well; just to clarify, I'm saying that the scale is of merit when the Force is applied directly onto it; it's what Bane did when he created his holocron, it's what Vergere did, and it's also what the Solo children did. They didn't merely indirectly cause an effect on such a scale, it was applied exactly on that scale.
And as the passage shows Dooku can't really be said to have done anything nearly as precise as what you're saying.
Nphthys:
I'll post the passage when it downloads (which could take a while, I couldn't select the individual book from the torrent I'm using so I have to download like a thousand books before I get to access it... 😐 ) but it was done in a compeltely controlled manner from what I remember, and not accidentally.
Perhaps but I believe there are multiple accounts of Jedi/Sith making them through use of the Force. And there is indeed the possibility you mention.