I have a Star Wars question

DeeZee

I hope this isn't too off topic, but I thought it could be answered here. :P
In the first movie, they say that Anakin has a really high concentration of midichlorians in his blood, so he's supposed to be the most powerful ever. But in the commentaries for the original movies, George Lucas says that he's weaker because of his injuries (loss of limbs and stuff.)
Wouldn't he be the same, though? I mean, just because he has less body mass, wouldn't the concentration be the same? I know it's a movie and all, but I was hoping there'd be a scientific explanation that made more sense.

whozum

Well I guess his new body parts wouldnt have those midowhatevers, so he has the original mass but less midos.

DeeZee

But would that make a difference? The concentration would be the same, wouldn't it?

whozum

No, he lost all the midos in his limbs.

DeeZee

No, I mean in the first movie, they said there was a high concentration in his blood. Well, he must still have a lot of his own blood, so shouldn't the concentration be the same? Maybe I'm not wording this right. :|

rbj

it's just a movie. enjoy it for what it is (a morality play with space cowboys and very good expensive special effects) and don't ask hard scientific questions (like how do we hear those spacecrafts zooming by, and how do they get to the outer rim so fast, and how do they communicate so much faster, and where does this cental planet that is 100% city get its resourses to feed and water the population, and where did the air-conditioning of that volcano planet come from, and where does the artificial gravity come from in the interior of all of the space ships, etc. etc.)

even though it had its own problems requiring suspended disbelief (the moon monolith and the Jupiter monolith and the star child), 2001 A Space Odyssey was much more realistic in terms of technology, although they missed it by at least 100 years (except for some things they didn't anticipate like no cell phones or laptop computers or the end of the USSR, they didn't even get that in the sequel, 2010).

DeeZee

Yah, I know, it's just something I was wondering about and no one I asked was able to give me a good answer. I figured this was a good place to get one. ;)

whozum

If what you said is true, shouldnt he have kicked Obi won's *** in Ep3?

Mk

Well if he lost all the blood that would've been in his missing limbs that wouldn't his midochloroplast force thing concentration go down?

DeeZee

See, that's what I was wondering. Doesn't the concentration of something stay the same, unless you add something to it to dilute it?

whozum

Deezee, lets say I have a cup of salt water, 100mL with 50% salt. I took away 50mL of saltwater, and replaced it with pure water. Is the concentration of salt in the water the same? No, you have 50mL containing 50% salt, and 50mL with 0% salt, the total is 100mL with 25% concentration.

DeeZee

So you mean his mechanical parts are diluting it?

JFo

That's assuming that anakin's body is incapable of reproducing the midiochlorians, but how do we know? George Lucas never told us .

If you want the scientific answer, then the answer is this isn't science - its a movie! Try not to think too hard about these things.

(Talk about a dumb thread)

Mk

Ooooohhhhhhhh! Now I get it! The answer is that its a sci-fi movie and not everything makes since.

Moo Of Doom

Also, perhaps concentration isn't the driving force, but total amount. If he has a high concentration, it does imply a large amount. Loss of limbs would most certainly lower the total, though.

quasi426

I understand your question. Concentration has nothing to do with mass. So if we assume that those particles in his blood were uniformly distributed then the concentration should be the same. But then again this is a sci fi, movie so you can make up whatever you want to explain things. For example possible reasons could be: absolute amount is what counts, therefore even though concentration is the same the absolute amount is less. Another explanation could be that there was a higher concentration of these things in the lost limbs thereby reducing concentration. Another explanation could be that these things are made in the bone marrow, so fewer limbs means fewer bone marrow which fewer special particles in the blood. The explanation list is endless. No use trying to prove them wrong, they usually can make stuff up to defend their view.

Soilwork

yeah concentration of the midi... in the blood would be the same, but the total amount he has would be reduced.