Comment Re:Too Much Imagination Required? (Score 1) 429
If we can learn to understand what gravity is -- not just measure it, but understand and create it, that opens a whole class of objects and effects that don't exist now. As for ships traveling faster than light, again, there are classes of study that might make that possible.
(We aren't given any possible technology for a "light" saber, so supposing that it's built on light is just that, supposition. It might be called a light saber because of the way it looks, not the way it works, after all.)
I did mean to say that I was excluding anything to do with the "force", as that is obviously magic and shouldn't be classed as anything but. Then again, it isn't claimed to *be* science in the original film, so maybe it should be excluded automatically.
But even if I classed everything that's done in SW as "magic" and not science, it's still a lot easier for me to set aside disbelief in that film than in either Tron film. Tron shows something I *know* doesn't and can't exist, rather than show something that in all probability doesn't exist. For me, it isn't science, it isn't magic, it isn't even fantasy. It's just a dumb idea and I can't suspend disbelief long enough to make it work for me.