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Originally Posted by Phantasm
The scientists are looking for a scientific explanation and all they get from Jedi are "will of the Force".
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In the Star Wars setting (which isn't ours, "long long ago" notwithstanding!), the Jedi might be the ones that are actually right. Teleological and non-reductionist explanations might be the more correct ones when it comes to the Force. An atomist scientist who insists that it must be mentally controlled "psion particles" could be quite wrong, if not as crazy as someone in the real world insisting that planets are propelled around their suns because they're pushed along their tracks by angels. You could, of course, still have such a character, even if everyone in the group agreed with the Jedi philosophy, and it might even be fun to play. But that character's viewpoint doesn't have to be _right_.
About the least useful place to start with the Star Wars setting is assuming that "modern-day real world understanding of physics is true and nearly complete", and then asking what a real-world physicist would be studying if only they happened to be in the SW galaxy.
Do what the SW authors do. Make up something that sounds cool, but in fact is designed to propel the stories you want to tell.