Game Theory: Star Wars, How the Force WORKS! (Star Wars Fallen Order)

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One of my favorite fictional worlds is Star Wars and with the release of Star Wars: Fallen Order I knew it was time to cover a topic I've wanted to do for YEARS! It's time to talk about the Force. Anyone who has seen one of the movies or played one of the games wishes they could use the Force. Imagine being able to lift objects, do crazy acrobatics or even slow time like in Star Wars: Fallen Order! Today, I want to examine how the Force Slow in the new game helps crack the key to understand the science behind the Force. Get your lightsabers ready, Theorists!
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[@jackh3mmerjack]

Matpat: “Sponsered by EA!” Everyone: “YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE SITH, NOT JOIN THEM!”

[@miguelcastillo3723]

Well hey they finally made a great game

[@cupofcoco8948]

"IT WAS SAID YOU WOULD BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE NOT LEAVE IT IN DARKNESS!"

[@b1battledroid179]

*You become the exact thing you swore to destroy*

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

I saw 'EA' and sighed so much. EA = Extremly Awful

[@khangminhlo2886]

Ea is bad

[@lEGOBOT2565]

You forget an important detail: The surrounding environment does not slow down

[@twilightcadmea]

exactly!

[@annoyingkittycat6449]

O_O

[@TheLegendofHaloid]

Also Force Push and Pull

[@garetclaborn]

it's localized time dilation

[@lEGOBOT2565]

@@garetclaborn that would only work if he manipulated gravity

[@sleepycat6683]

For those who's still unaware, Cal's force power is actually called Force Stasis. So rather than slowing his surrounding, he actually only slow an object. This ability can also be seen performed by Kylo Ren in episode 7 when he stop a blaster bolt from Poe at the beginning of the movie.

[@witherslayer4239]

Not to mention what MatPat is talking about does exist as a force power, Force Speed.

[@pop7292]

Yeah he stops it not slow it down like cal does.

[@xxxhero7275]

@@witherslayer4239 ​ also a midichlorian seems closer to electrons then mitochondria so I’m guessing midochlorians are just a measure of how we’ll you can control electrons(which is solidified by force electricity/dark side electricity and the nightsisters)

[@ked49]

@@pop7292 but it isn’t biological.

[@terrariangolden6985]

Nerd moment here: force stasis also exists in KOTOR, but it doesn't make your oponents slower, it desorients them

[@juubipoopy2980]

Nobody: The teacher at the Jedi temple: The midichlorians are the powerhouse of the force

[@lancetheking7524]

that's what I call a fun teacher

[@JoonaBruh]

You're so funny and original with that "nobody" of yours...

[@internetual7350]

@@JoonaBruh Cope.

[@JoonaBruh]

@@internetual7350 Original.

[@xavier51]

@@JoonaBruh who cares if things are original

[@CuppaTeaExe]

*inhales* *MIDI-CHLORIANS ARE THE POWER HOUSE OF THE FOOOOORCE*

[@BabuBabu-ip6oh]

V: *So it is written.*

[@katelynpfister2920]

death metal mat pat

[@charlotteinfinito3581]

I’m dead

[@kiaghezel-ayagh9099]

CuppaTeaExe my bio test when I didn’t study So you have chosen... death

[@modergav]

I actually shouted that

[@spub8295]

This doesn’t account for how you slow one thing at a time and everything else still moves normally although I do understand that you had limited access to the game you just shouldn’t have rushed this theory, also great job with the Saint Jude promotion it’s amazing that you have decided to help out this foundation

[@existingboiexistingboi4769]

Ya speed everything else up BIG BRAIN

[@leniterfortis4832]

Also, how can people move objects with the force if they can't effect things without Midi-Chlorians.

[@iavor55]

As seen in clip 5:00

[@karolchruzik1919]

Welcome to post middleschool club, now you wont see plotholes only every his third or fourth theory, thats why some people prefer austin.

[@aphidamas1]

Ignored for sponsorship. He probably just didn't have a better idea for a video.

[@Bklgav]

When Kenobi says the the the the force penetrates us and binds the universe together, you can infer that the force is most likely able to manipulate the physics of the star wars universe, like in the case of force slow, the force could potentially slow down certain objects while not slowing others. If you think about it as a universe where our concept of physics doesn’t apply it makes sense. The force could be a part of the fundamental forces along with electromagnetism and gravity that can manipulate the state of anything at the atomic level. The only part of this explanation that doesn’t make sense is that a fundamental force of the universe is being manipulated by people, but this is solved by viewing the star wars universe as one that functions differently than our own. You can also think about it like how Every partial can exert its gravitational pull one other particles, maybe midi-clorians set themselves apart from mitochondria because they and access or are partially made up of that universe’s Higgs boson/field and the mind can tap into that power because force push, pull, and jump all seem like you can accomplish them by using gravitational forces I’m looking at this now and I think I wasted 10 minutes typing this on my phone for nobody to see

[@bharl7226]

We see you, and I say thanks

[@Hollowmello1285]

True 😑

[@BrettAShore]

I see you

[@Firesgone]

At least it was only 10 minutes for you. I tend to go all out for a half hour to a FULL hour sometimes.

[@songokussj3]

Sorry bro.

[@carlsonjoe2166]

Me: Ok so how do I pay taxes School: Miticrondghea is the power house of the cell

[@russiancheems2275]

mitochondria*

[@sunsinger970]

The correct answer is to learn how not to. It was a trick question all along.

[@Daniel-jk6ve]

No, I like this! Sounds like a venereal disease.

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

Kylo Ren’s force freeze: Am I a joke to you

[@SolarBeam04]

Its Za Warudo but oddly specific

[@super-kidcritic8982]

Well he said it was a dark side power

[@enchantmenttable7711]

Also it can only be used on people and not objects ao its probably the dark side mine-cloud thing

[@iconius2000]

Colin, actually if you remember he freezes a blaster bolt in the force awakens in the very beginning :3

[@connorjenke8811]

Game Difficulty_42 THANK YOU!! I was thinking that during the entire video

[@vyomjohri6678]

MatPat: talks about midichlorians All the Star Wars fans: It’s big brain time

[@shadowtaco5052]

That was totally me. I was like, wait, so midi-chlorians aren´t bad?

[@TheRezro]

@@shadowtaco5052 And you wannabees of course don't understand what problem people really did have with them?

[@shadowtaco5052]

@@TheRezro ok den

[@tillerrrmmonopoly5741]

One question though, why is that not everyone slows down? Also Kylo Ren has this ability kinda, so maybe it's more that you're making other people and objects have less force energy around them. Or maybe it's a matter of changing space time using the energy of the force.

[@shadowtaco5052]

@@tillerrrmmonopoly5741 Or maybe its sans controlling not space time but time and space. hmmmmmm

[@davindeptuck7905]

This would also explain Qui-Gon and Kenobi's Episode I superspeed lol

[@sylvaticdaveo4486]

That was force sprint. If you go and play the original battle front 2 and use Jedi or sith you see it there

[@lukes8557]

@@sylvaticdaveo4486 ya and Cal can use force speed with the dash strike attack

[@firstnamelastname9237]

Others mentioned this, apparently in fallen order it’s exclusive to chosen objects/people. Originally i wanted to fully accept this as it matches up with the force speed ability in jedi outcast which slows down everything in singleplayer. However with this information it suggests it more follows a weaker version of something like force stasis which seems to work on living and non living beings (at least according to SWTOR, not that that’s universally reliable) regardless it fits more into just a sort of another form energy or telekinetic use of the force.

[@PyroGam3s]

interesting, I forgot about force stasis. But in KOTOR the single player version of SWTOR and precursor. Force stasis could only be used on living things, even if you leveled it up all the way. My first thought also was some form of force speed but giving it a closer look what we see in the game doesn't match up with what we know about force speed. Is it possible that star wars has upgraded the force stasis ability or maybe even the force slow ability?

[@nicholaswilson1851]

EA: makes a great single player game without loot boxes Everyone else: a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[@Tainted_Human]

Technically respawn Entertainment but ok

[@snowway0ut552]

@@Tainted_Human Respawn 100%. Don't give EA any credit.

[@Tainted_Human]

@@snowway0ut552 they only published it so I'd stop sending death threats....I MEAN WHAT. YOU HAVE NO PROOF

[@goorenn]

It’s just another one of EA’s surprise mechanics

[@Cheesusful]

Then pays matpat to promote it

[@ferhad9865]

If the slow force makes you faster, why doesn't it effect everything and just the object you use it on?

[@ermacmacro7136]

It's like spider sense. It makes you perceive things as slower, so you seem faster in comparison

[@outland2874]

Ermac Macro yeah but that doesnt answer the question, how come you can only slow one object

[@ermacmacro7136]

@@outland2874 Narrowing your focus?

[@noxxymayli]

if the "force slow" speeds you up, it would make everything around you seem slower, not just a specific person or thing.

[@ferhad9865]

Maybe you're concentrating on the moves of the one object, so you can react faster

[@Thatsound221]

When you think about the force The force just seems like a powerful version of telekinesis

[@elijahnakumura4375]

Because thats how ppl tend use it. In the EU(I know its no canon blah blah) the force was alllied in a huge variety of ways. Thought bombs, inspiring/demoralizing troops on the field etc.

[@gamingcreatesworlddd2425]

@@elijahnakumura4375 but if you will think force or telekinesis is complete pseudoscience there was 1million$ prize in usa dor those who can on camera show any supernatural power noone showed up till now

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

There are other abilities that dint fit in the force Able to feel strong emotions or connections across long distances Slight prophetic visions Shooting lightning from your hands Empowering your physical prowess (yoda makes great use of this) And a ton more things depending how far you go down the comics that arent technically canon anymore cuz disney

[@ked49]

@Some Random Dude also the cosmic force. So gravity and any laws are false

[@toastten3127]

This takes "Mitochondria is a power house of a cell" to a new level

[@Lifelez]

11:48 It makes you faster instead of the object slower! *shows footage where only one object slows down and the second moving object procedes to move at the same speed* huh.

[@Freakadog]

And makes an arguement about how biological organisms shouldn't affect nonorganic objects, but then refers to how you can lift rocks with the force.

[@sbgh4720]

How can they mess up the simplest thing

[@Enduroman1]

I thought that it just increased my perception on something that my character was targeting

[@Incred_Canemian]

@@Freakadog I guess rocks and xwings are alive

[@nemodaremo9524]

Also, gravity is a thing when you imitate sanic

[@ShapedApple]

"Back in 8th grade biology" Me in 8th grade biology: heh yea remember learning about that

[@resortisland8977]

Same

[@GoldenBeans]

My Biology teacher actually showed us mitochrondia memes to help us remember it (in my country this translates to 11th grade tho, not 8th)

[@randomknight2585]

GoldenBeans you have a true teacher

[@theoddgamer7114]

same

[@doginhat13]

@@GoldenBeans and out of curiosity what country is that

[@hertzbergjoakim]

Force speed is already a thing, obi-wan and qui-gon do it in The Phantom Menace, however, you missed a detail, the whole world doesn't slow down, for example with the pistons, only specific objects do. To do this with speed a Jedi would have to speed up everything in the universe except for that select object

[@PyroGam3s]

This is not at all how force speed works. Force speed is an augment that you place upon yourself, I assume through high amounts of inner focus. Making it impossible to use on someone else or other objects. It helps with concentration, reactions, focus, split decision making etc. Something that only exists in the eyes of the person who is under it's influence is very difficult to show on camera or to a player in a game. But anyone who has an extremely fast thinking process, and reactions would most likely perceive the world around them as going slower. Every bit of information picked up by their senses would be perceived as if it was a slower environment, there's no way only singular elements of that environment would be seen as faster or slower, it would be everything.

[@izaiahmichel5210]

So theoretically, could a “normal” Star Wars universe civilian train their own mind and body to increase mitichlorians and potentially tap into the force? In a sense could anakin or Vader have been defeated by someone who just “trained harder”?

[@mundusvis1224]

I think the training would be multiplicative, so a civilian could train very hard to use simple force abilities and Anakin could feel things when he was a little kid.

[@stefanbateman1271]

Lmao don't work like that. Mitichloriams are in yo blood. Don't increase nor decrease

[@loafstudios8811]

@@mundusvis1224 No, you cant increase them, that is impossible unless you are darth plaguius, the only one who could do that and who is dead, to even do force powers you need over 5 thousand midichlorians to even do simple stuff, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO INCREASE IF YOU ARE A NORMAL PERSON YOU STUPID MAN

[@drev39]

I suppose a random person could somewhat increase their midichlorian count but not enough to actually become a Jedi and be able to use the Force. Just like Filoni said, "If I train hard enough I'll be better at martial arts but I'll never reach Bruce Lee's level". I'm guessing becoming better at martial arts means increasing the midichlorian count and reaching Bruce Lee's level means using the Force/becoming a Jedi. 2000 to 20,000 midichlorians is quite the jump for a "normal" person to make by simply training. You have to be born with an already high midichlorian count otherwise I don't see why the Jedi would take Force-sensitive kids from their families to train them if they could just train random orphans.

[@liquidsuspect2469]

what are you gonna train the submicroscopic lifeforms living in your cells to fucc more?

[@Leomatoad]

In Star Wars episode 1, qui-gon and obi-wan uses “force speed” to runaway super fast

[@battlemodifier2353]

Could have come in handy sooooo many times

[@channelrob6927]

Hamill started as a Jedi, and became a joker. Monaghan started as a joker, and became a Jedi.

[@Lionblaze-Prime]

That's deep

[@sephandremanticore5438]

This is why Hamill and Monaghan can never be onscreen together. They'll cancel each other out and cease to exist.

[@Halepeno]

holy cow my mind my mind just got blown to freakin pieces

[@Official_Kayde_Games]

🎶The circle of the force🎵

[@ananyaadundii]

Not a ,The Animated Joker

[@integrallens6045]

I'd say jedi academy has force slow to some degree. It has a speed option which makes you go faster, which could essentially be thought of as the same thing as everything else going slower. From your perspective there is a difference but I would ultimately say it's the same power.

[@Auck130]

Star Wars: has Wars Random floating yellow letters in the middle of space: I served My purpose

[@russiancheems2275]

"there are no accidents"

[@samanthae.1002]

I swear “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” is the Chant of some cult somehwere

[@samuelgomez9124]

We're not a cult, we're just a support group for scarred ex-students. We are planning a revolution though, you in?

[@JessesGameRoom]

@@samuelgomez9124 I'm in

[@detectivesexman2781]

Samuel Gomez Count me in

[@fatheadguy3285]

Samuel Gomez Yes, i’m ready to devolt my life to the revolution.

[@samanthae.1002]

Samuel Gomez I KNEW IT! Let’s over throw the public school system. I’m in....what’s the plaN?

[@jameraya]

MatPat: Life is a game, the first objective is exercise Everyone: So close yet so far

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

I think the first objective is the spark of life, your first one is free when the sperm links with the egg, after that you need to keep metabolizing sources of energy until your systems corrode, break down and fail. Evolution has gotten us this far, now we need to completely Decode our DNA and genomic library, optimize and improve the repair, regeneration, and anti-aging functions, increase mental capacity, and then transcode the new Updated Human patterns back into DNA and spawned into actual living life forms. That is as far as we can get running on a meat based carbon life form platform. For advancements beyond the abilities of meat creatures, we have to learn to code, and write advanced A.I. who's sole purpose is to write even better more advanced generalized A.I. Then we will have created digital beings far more advanced than ourselves.

[@Valentin_Teslov]

@@SeaJay_Oceans I don't think you quite understand how complex our brains are. You say that we need to make an AI that will create a more generalized AI, but guess what we are. A very generalized AI. As of right now we are incapable of creating a machine that can store as much information as our brains process in only one second. What you are proposing is creating an AI that would be WORSE than a human mind. At least with our current technological state. The only reason digital intelligence SEEMS to be better than what humans can do is because it is programmed to do very specific things. Our brains could probably do FAR BETTER than our measly machines if they operated the same way, but our brains traded the ability to do precise calculations for the ability to generalize everything, simply because the real world has way too much information to process, even for our brains.

[@YyoavV]

MatPat2: Tomorow..

[@scarletthread4921]

I’ll do it tomorrow

[@YyoavV]

ScarletThread49 I didn't expect for eny1 2 commet.. lol

[@SCP--pr1yd]

MatPat: we can’t touch anything COVID-19: aww man

[@thegreatsean4631]

My theory for this is kind of like how there's a light side equivalent to Force lightning, Force slow for the dark side slows down the mind of an opponent but Force slow for the light makes you fast like we see Obi-Wan and Qui Gon Jinn do in The Phantom Menace

[@rederen3350]

MatPat: *sponsored by EA* Everyone: It’s treason then

[@sanctificate6285]

lol

[@dead-well5277]

trEAson

[@teamcyeborg]

The midochlorian is the powerhouse of the cell

[@sawgobrrr7284]

Midichlorians are more like to a forendali not mitochondria

[@sawgobrrr7284]

Forendali connect us to oxygen

[@ayushtyagi1673]

This theory is wrong and is bullshit

[@statik1445]

Ayush and harshit ki vines proof

[@lilym6322]

Team Cyborg midochlorian is the power house of the force ;)

[@thatturtlesdude6405]

The perfect thing to listen to as I make my cell model that I was supposed to do yesterday.

[@FirestoneAnimation]

Turned out, in the end, Force Slow is indeed a thing and it was originally a Dark Side ability. That Cal learned over time. Soooo yeah. And also NOTHING ELSE GETS BLURRED LIKE THE OBJECT

[@mannreelmen2601]

"Lucas based Midi-Chlorians on Mit-" Me: *THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL*

[@Ayr1n_0]

The Mitoclorian is the powerhouse of the Force

[@shash._.]

*6th grade biology teachers are fuming*

[@milkshakeman1528]

Biology class failed me I thought there was 1 mitochondria per cell

[@leosolcanonizado4065]

The Midi-Chlorian is the power house of the force!

[@areezdordi361]

A good soldier follows orders

[@earth1883]

Remember how in the first scene where Cal uses the force, he slows down Praug so that he doesnt hit the ground as hard and take a deadly fall? No? Ok

[@MrMoop23]

Maybe because he didn't hit the ground. He slowed him enough to land on a ship

[@earth1883]

@@MrMoop23 Yes. Couldn't do that if he was just "accelerating his senses"

[@gingerinajacket8519]

That could be an effect of force pull, but in a weaker state than purely getting them closer to Cal. He could be actively pulling up. This theory doesn't make any sense with double jumps, force pull, and force push though

[@oliviawilliams6204]

@@gingerinajacket8519 Or Force slow really, because you see it in footage, it slow one object at the time, not the other, that make no sense if it's our sense who are affected

[@SignField]

I did.

[@npzabov]

- Run faster, jump higher... - Maaaaan, I'm not gonna let you poison me...

[@foxflyer3035]

Matpat after done talking about how weird science is, "So to answer your question officer no I did not touch this kid"

[@unique_handle_1066]

MatPat: Thats the only organelle you remember Me: *Sad ribosome noises*

[@GamrCatgirl]

Ribowhat

[@eldoctoroso]

Haha, i get it... science!

[@ericmaclean6826]

Distant distressed lysosome noises

[@envrnmntlsm]

*sad vacuole noises*

[@luketabat6315]

just saying, thhis sort of brekas the theory about force slow being you just fast. the fact that you can slow only one enemy and the rest will not be slowed??? are the rest speed up with you??? so i dont think it ruins the rest of the theory but force slow is not a force fast

[@swguy5896]

I wanted to point out the same thing, you are slowing down singular objects or enemys with the force slow ability. So it can't be a force fast effect. Adding to that you (matt) just said in the beginning that the midi-chlorians are not the force itself but just the thing that connects us to the force. So I would not base the force powers on the midi-chlorians. I love your overall thought but I just cannot believe this theory.

[@vryon5756]

I said this 4 months ago

[@KillerWhale_YT]

I was literally coming to the comments to see if anyone said that

[@Bingcom-fg1ev]

You're mistaken. What it does you are just processing information faster. So you react and think faster. Than a normal person. Think it like watching a video in 2x, that explains why the other is not slowed. Because your only focusing to that specific object or person.

[@swguy5896]

@@Bingcom-fg1ev I'm sorry, but that doesn't make sense at all. You can't process information of one person faster and therefor just slow him down..

[@RaphBlade7]

The ability Cal uses is Force Stasis, not Force Slow! Its also just a form of Force based telekinesis used to retrain or immobilize living things and/or objects! Also unlike Force Slow, Force Stasis is apparently a neutral force ability as it is used by Jedi & Sith alike, as Yoda uses it against Ventress in THE CLONE WARs, thus Cal's usage is perfectly acceptable! Kylo uses to immobilize blaster bolts in The Force Awakens!

[@adamlabelle6199]

I'd like to see a minor re-do of the theory now that the entire game is out, seeing how right at the end of Order 66 with Cal and his master, Cal slows the clones and their blaster bolts down enough for the doors of the escape pod to close, not actually speeding himself up at all, just holding the clones and blaster fire in place long enough for them to close the doors.

[@harry2l8]

There is one gap in the theory: You can only slow 1 person/ object at a time while the rest is still the same speed.

[@timmyhoward6638]

Yeah and gravity is the same for you which wouldn't make sense if you were overdrived

[@thatgamer7046]

EXACTLY what i was about to comment

[@RemembermeSF]

Do remember one thing here, he was going off of a demo play he did before the game released. A demo play that was only a few hours long.

[@kintsuki99]

@@RemembermeSF Yeah but he shows a scene where the use of forceslow and only one spinning thing gets slower when there are two in the screen, aldo the thrown light saber in the other scene. So that excuse does not work.

[@Eric-xo5qs]

Bingo

[@njfrogs9005]

If the force slow makes you faster, why does it only “slow down” certain objects

[@popburnsy3207]

Gameplay is limited to what programmers considered(or didn't consider) the power was capable of.

[@jacobhoeft4278]

@@popburnsy3207 If gameplay can't be considered a canon representation of the force power then none of this discussion would mean anything.

[@crashkojote5627]

Chuck it up to game design or the fact that you use a more complex force push/pull to force the thing you focus on to slow down. Choose your poison. After all, if you, as a jedi are creative enough, you can make an explosion using a pebble and a gun on our tech via some metal walls.

[@scorpioneldar]

@@crashkojote5627Kojote there is also a force power called force speed that speeds up the user. and it is far more common in Starwars properties than force slow is. no this is doing something else.

[@scorpioneldar]

sorry didn't mean to direct it at you crash. Just to add to the conversation

[@neonpenguin0948]

12:56 Force slow can’t be that he is moving faster than the real world because her wit shows that the storm trooper is slowed the the waterfall on the left isn’t so it must just make specific things slower Tina usual. Maybe it’s like a weaker force push, pushing things back but with just the right amount of energy to make it move slow because it’s constantly being pushed back. But also the bullet is slowed but the storm trooper isn’t pushed back so that can’t be right either.

[@SadJBomb]

plant cells also have mitochondria, so in star wars theres probably a force sensitive tree out there that just cant do anything

[@AriAxolotl]

The way I’ve thought about this ability since we say Kilo Ren use this ability on a blaster bolt in episode 7, is that the force user just uses a combination of force pull and push to hold and object or person in place

[@polkipies4678]

Makes more sense than this bloody theory

[@joneskleid9501]

William Horrigan there is one problem with that at least in the context of this game. You don’t get push or pull till later

[@bjoernusw5195]

@@joneskleid9501 but as we see from the training visions, he was able to do it before. He might was just too traumatized to use push and pull because those were the abilities his master used before his death, while force slow is only based on push and pull, but not connected to his trauma

[@Helperbot-2000]

What about gram and milligram ren?

[@paulshannon6124]

William Horrigan that’s the same way I thought it was, and it makes sense in the context to how it’s used in the game, because you can only use it on one object

[@aeinzalot]

Half of this video: Star Wars Other half: *MatPat having a mental breakdown about cells and atoms*

[@Plumyboi]

I just had that unit for cells and i forgot

[@cartoonmaster2401]

His Michael is showing lol

[@permeus2nd]

5:44 i fixed midi-chlorians but sadly i dont have a platform so no one listens to me. basically the Jedi say midi-chlorians and assumed that was what was making the force and no one double checked who said it, what is actually happening is that midi-chlorians are what white blood cells are to an infection, so when a life form come into contact with the force it reacts by making midi-chlorians the more Force around the thing the more midi-chlorians its body makes so yes how strong someone is in the force can be measured by their M count but the Jedi had it backwards midi-chlorians don't make the force they are a symptom of it.

[@quitkid8727]

In actuality, your probably just throwing so much force energy ( is that a thing?) That what ever your focus on is effectively moving through sand or something.

[@whatthe239]

The marathon equivalent of a sick dunk is a “rad run”

[@Otto_Von_Beansmarck]

no its actually a jolly jog

[@bran9019]

Cool step

[@abramtankproductions6039]

Totally Tubular Trot

[@abramtankproductions6039]

Benjamin Branchett Or Stellar Steppy

[@dsproductions19]

It never really seemed like a "slowing" effect to me, instead appearing more like the ability "holds things in place." This change in understanding puts it right in line with Push and Pull, as maybe just a more advanced version of those basic skills.

[@Lord_Poyo]

Except that things keep moving while they are slowed. One could argue that you are right in a way, in that the force applies increased pressure on an object from all sides. However, that wouldn't hold up either because any initial momentum would be lost. Objects slowed (like blasters) wouldn't return to their normal speed because nothing is constantly giving them momentum.

[@existentialselkath1264]

Exactly. It makes way more sense than effecting time or whatever,

[@MadaraUchihaTobi255]

I think it is more of this sort of thing too. If it was you just reacting faster then it would affect everything around you not just a single troop or object. To me this technique is very similar in appearance and function to Kylo's force freeze from episode 7. It feels like this skill works in the same way that you can use the force to speed yourself up but in the opposite effect. Like you can increase your speed so much that you appear to be a blur, so it stands to reason that you could also accomplish the opposite and slow someone or thing to a crawl.

[@kabbierbalinag4739]

@@Lord_Poyo that's a good observation. I was thinking that it was just a more advanced push as well but your point completely destroys that argument.

[@twiwolf6754]

@@Lord_Poyo Unless you take in the fact that the force can give the middle finger to physics. If The Force wants to decrease the rate at which an object travels while preserving it's inertia, it can. because it's not real, it's a made up power. Oh, and another possible theory: what if Force Slow isnt really slowing the object, but taking a few moments of the objects action and extending them? For example, if it took 1 second for me to take one step, and someone used force slow on me, now it takes me 5 seconds. meaning Force Slow took a 1 second span and stretched it over 5. this could also help to explain why objects keep momentum, because they aren't being held back, and no force is being pushed onto them, The Force is just bending time around them to make a short amount of time last longer.

[@bunkersnail9531]

I love the parallel of mark Hamill going from luke to the joker. And Cameron Monaghan going from the joker to Cal Kestis.

[@QuesoCookies]

Kylo Ren demonstrated a "force slow" when he stopped the blaster bolt at the beginning of Force Awakens, but it's not portrayed as him speeding up or time slowing down, just him using the Force to seize the bolt and hold it in place. That makes more sense for Cal to be doing, as slowing down time or speeding himself up would affect every element around him and not just his target. Nice message about exercise, though, and definitely enlightening as to the thought process behind midiclorians.

[@oldchannel3659]

"Humans are a bunch of empty space that can't actually touch anything" Welp, found another reason not to go to sleep

[@phillipscrimshaw6793]

And feel more lonely knowing you'll never truly be connected to any body or anything 😢

[@bassplayertaylor6983]

Well since our perception is our reality, the fact that we feel like we can touch things is all that really matters

[@r.j.penfold]

@@bassplayertaylor6983 time to shatter my perceptive reality and never have the ability to feel anything ever again!

[@that1lonelydude594]

CCCXVII..... 317 episodes already?! Wow, that’s a lot of binging.

[@lil-scykoh-3922]

I think he was just counting the FNaF ones

[@TheBoyBanditKing1911]

@@lil-scykoh-3922 lol

[@elijahsanford9645]

Now I'm guilty that I have watched everything film theory and game theory.

[@Applewasher]

I’ve done more

[@TheBoyBanditKing1911]

@@Applewasher m

[@WarrenF19]

It took you 15 minutes to explain what I thought of the second I saw force slow lol, but thumbs up for the science and entertainment

[@natnat-24]

3:42 there is a dlc outfit called "inquisitor cal" in which you are a sith

[@ArchyMVP-tk6mg]

When MatPat says chloroplast s and nucleus but not vacuole: Obi-Wan: “These are not the organelles you are looking for.”

[@carhighh]

ArchyMVP 0592 perhaps the archives are incomplete

[@Jackb201]

anything not in the archives doesn't exist.

[@valpro4604]

@@Jackb201 Ok Shreck

[@cameraman8698]

Ah another man of science

[@janemastromonico712]

Could it not be a ribosome, a lysosome, or a nucleolus?

[@r3m221]

"We never truly touch anything" Well thanks for that existential crisis

[@curtisking8393]

If this is about the electron thing it freaked me out last time. 😅

[@gruggrug2940]

I no longer need a hover board i am never actually touching the ground

[@chrishunt7637]

seems like a VSauce quote to me LUL

[@nihilego3634]

I can't believe I never touched myself !

[@kinggordoproductions6203]

To quote my physics teacher: "Never tell your mother you didn't hit your brother just because your electrons didn't trade places."

[@cludyskies3819]

Lol I told my Year 7 (yes I’m British) class about mitochondria and my teacher was super amazed because we were meant to learn about it in Year 11 (five years later) :)

[@fredmartins5722]

it really does make you faster, instead of someone else slower. Except it doesn't, because you only slow someone/something else, not everyone/everything around your, like this specific piston you're aiming will become slow but the one in front of it still moves incredibly fast

[@boomboomfiyah]

Me (waves hand): the cellular organelle you were looking for is lysosome.

[@SetariM]

This is what I came to the comments to find, thanks.

[@anjalireisdorf6018]

I was going to say the same thing! Either that or centrioles

[@josephdaniel5912]

*waves hand*: the mitocondria is the powerhouse of the cell....

[@Murasane]

I was gonna say it was deoxyribonucleic acid

[@alextomlinson2830]

I was thinking ribosomes

[@sleepytoast3666]

11:49 disproved this whole thing only one gear slows at a time

[@hellomonkeymiller]

True, I think this is also why Jedi Knight Jedi Academy had force speed instead of force slow. Which in single player made the entire world slow around you.

[@D3__]

they spin in opposing directions anyways with no contact.

[@alekhpalakurthi1263]

@@D3__ thats not really the point, he's pointing out that the gears don't both appear slow, so then Cal can't be speeding up

[@nousername8162]

So true

[@annamaetions8198]

when i saw the title, my brain was like, "That's not how the force works"

[@mimiminecraft5362]

But in the game, you sometimes can only stop one thing but not the others around it.

[@laatmaasquanariin3945]

"The force cant effect nonliving things!" 1:Luke's X-wing 2: droids in general all throughout the clone wars. 3:rocks on dagobah. Among other things...

[@artemisorwhatever9828]

I think he meant the KOTOR version of Force Slow.

[@kevinquinn4725]

Don't forget lightsabers MANY times

[@laatmaasquanariin3945]

While technically true, the Crystal's inside of lightsabers have long been said to be living items. The episode in 2004 clone wars where baris coffee was constructing her lightsaber Luminara Unduli mentions several times in her chant that the crystal is alive and chose her, that the connection between jedi and crystal brought out the best in both. Same goes for star wars the clone wars 2012. Yoda takes younglings into illumination for their crystal trial. Tells them that the crystal will choose them,not the other way around. Only through channeling the force can you hear it call

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Lol Bariss Coffee. Not seen that in a while.

[@bobbymorris4019]

The force can effect anything but non-living things just can’t manipulate the force (minus infused with the force things)

[@samvortex2802]

Disproved the “force fast” argument: Only problem is that if he was making himself faster, everything would be slowed down at once. However, he can only slow one object or person at a time. (Until later when you can slow groups of enemies) but still, if you slow down a group of scout troopers, the rocket trooper sniping you from far away with rockets won’t be slowed down at all. This can also be shown even more when you slow down a fan, it’s one at a time and the other ones around keep the same speed. So yeah... really needed to check how the game actually works, because the gameplay completely wrecks the theory.

[@cenaloh4714]

It's just a theory, A game theory. 😆

[@wilfred5179]

As much as I loved the vid, I honestly didn't believe the supercharging part right from the get go

[@darkfire090]

Up until he talks about how the player //speeds up// I thought he was going to say that the jedi's connection to the force means they can access and manipulate the force in other beings (manipulating the force through the midochlorians in other objects), which would also explain how the plague force power enables some jedi's to poison people without contact. Doesn't really explain how it works on non-living objects but maybe they're all just covered in a lot of space germs :d

[@steffenday510]

The only thing MatPat understands worse than Star Wars is... Um... Yeah no, he's completely Star Wars illiterate. At least this is better than his Solo video though. Good grief.

[@samvortex2802]

Steffen Day LOL! Very good point haha

[@artsyfartsyyy]

"These are not the swiss cakerolls you're looking for." Can we get some appreciation for that iconic line?"

[@ipurpleyou5227]

Well just based on the video material I've seen it was quite obvious to me that the force user ist just moving faster and not the environment slower. But the explanation behind it is so cool and it motivates me to become fit and healthy.

[@taitcarrillo8926]

Lmao Only one thing slows at a time Everything else proceeds normally

[@Lazar-TS]

Yea I just realized that with the like, wheels.

[@topoman1113]

was a kind of interesting video 'till that moment

[@earth1883]

Also in the first scene where Cal uses the force, he slows down Praug so he doesn't fall to his death

[@vieira2a177]

@@earth1883 and doesnt explain all de powers

[@patolinocanadense8686]

This seems to be an issue with mat and austin, they have a really interesting idea, but they miss on one thing that proves them totally wrong. Still love the videos anyway

[@TorneliousDiddle]

Mat 3 years ago: Nobody wants to talk about midichlorians Mat 3 years later: Midichlorians *blah blah blah* Different *blah blah blah*. Me: You became the very thing you swore to destroy!

[@TorneliousDiddle]

KRYMauL, that wasn't the point... 👀

[@TorneliousDiddle]

KRYMauL, irrelevant 👀

[@TorneliousDiddle]

KRYMauL, bruv, the joke was he said nobody likes hearing about midichlorians and that now he talks so much about them. No need to rub your obvious knowledge, not to be rude.

[@frozon3247]

Girls girls ur booth pretty, u booth have points so plz don't argue

[@TorneliousDiddle]

oof oof, first of all, I aint arguing, second, who you callin a girl?

[@shilohlee4332]

Quick note, Jedi have Talents too. There's a master on the council (off the top of my head Plo Koon, but it could be someone else), who's really really talented at Force Lightning (and develops a variant that isn't Dark), the Halcyon/Horns can't Telekinesis for their lives, but instinctively absorb and redirect energy. Bastila Shan has a Talent for Battle Meditation. Cal's likely training under his Master because they both have a talent for Slow (which might be more closely derived from the Force Stasis power from the KotOR games. The Jedi have had 3,000 years to refine and innovate). You may want to check out the Space isn't a Vacuum video by EckhartsLadder. It explains the Hover tech and may be implied to intereact with or be part of the Force. Also, I've seen that Jedi's midichlorian counts go up as they train. Also, the average Jedi count is 10,000, the lower cut-off is 7,000. I'm loving you're take on the Force lore.

[@gabrielestrella2272]

Would this sort of be like that "Force Dash" scene in "The Phantom Menace" where Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan outrun the Destroyer droids on the Trade Federations ship? Leave it to MatPat to explain and make sense of Midi-chlorians: a Star Wars concept I found intriguing when I first watched the prequels but was left alone due to everyone freaking out and thinking they were the Force itself rather than the bridge between the physical being and the invisible but vast energy of the galaxy aka the Force.

[@powdereyes2210]

Yeah but in the game the character jumps and falls in a normal speed and the only way for that to happen is for him to either use force to pull himself down or just manipulates gravity to become stronger for him to fall faster

[@justuss501]

Let's not forget Kylo froze a blaster bolt mid air and force froze Rey. So force slow is probably actually slowing the intended target and not just speeding up the jedi

[@Draconicus702]

Yeah.. this theory wasn't the greatest

[@Icarus_Tactical]

It seemed that he was more holding it still with the force rather than slowing it down. If you watch the clip, the bolt is clearly resisting the force.

[@littlekuribohimposte]

You mean force hold? One of the most bog-standard skills?

[@chuckled125]

yeah that's just exerting pressure all around an object so that it can't move

[@Rialyss22]

I have never watched a single Star Wars movie so I have no clue what is happening

[@why.omi18]

Matpat: “Show off your big brain energy” Me a bio major: uhhhhh a vacuole?

[@s.s.shooter4855]

Vacuoles only stores food water and waste but i forget it they produce energy

[@ryancroy]

I thought it was a lysosome or something

[@YamiChocobo]

Maybe a ribosome?

[@mrbaitandwatch2259]

Itsa ribosome!

[@MichiZlogs]

I guessed ribosome too!

[@AlptheCrab]

13:05 thats wrong in a cutscene he use force slow on clone troopers and his master is moving at a normal speed srry to break ur theory lol

[@DiscordC]

and this would explain WHY Yoda had Luke do physical training.

[@Doggggggggo]

Game theory: mitochondria everyone else: oh yeah, the powerhouse of the cell

[@fangsoffuego]

My cells have houses?

[@Doggggggggo]

@@fangsoffuego yes, very strong houses.

[@vinmister1119]

Lucas Briddle if you have lots of mitochondria

[@bandawin18]

This mitochondria meme was an inside joke between me and my cousins before I discovered it being a meme

[@th3crazyguard1an85]

Im not even american and i have "is the powerhouse of the cell" drilled in my head. We dont have that here in the netherlands

[@kingbreezy4481]

That’s a great theory with some cool science buuuut u might wanna add this one to the wrong pile. When Kal uses a basic force slow on one stormtrooper, it only slows that stormtrooper while the others around him remain at a normal speed. If Kal was using a “force fast” then everything would appear slow apart from him, but this is not the case. But hey, that’s just an unfortunate dismissal of your theory, your game theory! Soz Matpat, love the videos man, would love to see some more Star Wars ones in the lead up to the rise of Skywalker. 👍

[@King_Purplish]

Not to mention in the force awakens kylo ten uses force slow on that laser

[@twopoles11]

@@King_Purplish I wouldn't call that force slow considering that he holds it in place, likely meaning that the "force slow" in Fallen Order is simply just the speed of a projectile or machine being slowed down in a similar manner to "force hold".

[@ToaDrakua]

@@King_Purplish And the guy behind it, Poe Dameron. Same thing happens in Jedi: Fallen Order. If we are going the biological route with this, that would mean that when a jedi is slowing down matter of any kind, they'd be affecting the microscopic life-forms on the object and in the atmosphere and making _them_ slow down, as well as whatever they're near or attached to. Doesn't quite work so well when the thing you're slowing literally burns everything it touches.

[@bobbymorris4019]

Force speed is a real ability in Star Wars and is advanced in form 4 of lightsaber combat

[@romanstravels6390]

Lol I was ganna type the same thing

[@dragondude7107]

So I’m actually hovering while I watch this? AWESOME!!!

[@j-core2895]

this statement will never get old 'THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWER HOUSE OF THE CELL

[@franklinamaro369]

5:00 The only slows down one gear and not the other so basically he doesn’t become faster the things really slow down

[@deaconpoole7577]

franklin amaro Cal can also slow down a single person, while letting other enemies move at their normal speed

[@liegeparadox2624]

This is a good point and basically invalidates the entire theory. I believe that force slow acts as a force pull in the opposite direction of movement, causing slower movements, it explains the inanimate objects too as you can force pull your lightsaber too you

[@franklinamaro369]

alex sudin just like when Kylo Ren stops objects

[@pmiles5038]

Me in public normally: *(0_0)* Me in a lift or an automatic door: *”I’m one with the force, the force is with me.”*

[@ishaanb4507]

this has nothing to do with your comment I just think that lance is better than shiro lol

[@gandalfwhite306]

@@ishaanb4507 wtf are you talking about?

[@PichuLover]

But Lancer dies every episode.

[@jadenrea980]

I love rogue one

[@jackielinde7568]

Me, in the driver's seat waiting at a light: "When I snap my fingers, the light will change from red to green."

[@polxa.]

9:53 Rare footage of MatPack telling a German man that he does not want a bagel...

[@dylanbabb5640]

The last cell organelle that you could not remember appeared to be a ribosomes, that's the only one I remember being described as circular and that's how I remembered it for my biology test

[@glock9144]

there is also vacuole and lysosomes that are kinda roundish

[@POTATOEH81]

Matpat : Shows you slowing only one enemy or one machine at a time Also Matpat : u fast so everything slow

[@kaibabcock6348]

MatPat: he is just going faster than everything else But everything except 1 or 2 items continue moving at the same speed

[@SylDaDry]

Instant de-bunk. Having beat the + mode multiple times I can say that you are only able to freeze one person or thing at a time ( without upgrades ). A more likely explanation is that everything is getting pushed in the opposite direction with slightly less force than the object is going

[@camwheat]

I feel like I learn so much from your videos

[@dragonstormer115]

this theory has more holes than a semi-permeable membrane

[@redknight8945]

Bug Batts Except the theory has at least one hole, so...

[@redknight8945]

Bug Batts I also looked it up (because I didn’t know what it was) and the first result I got was that it had tiny holes, so...

[@pheelbanana1646]

@@redknight8945 Had to go through my old memory to remember that you must be talking about protein channels

[@tylerrothe3046]

This insult make people use science to solve if the insult would work. That really is a statement.

[@Unknown-zi2jy]

Destruction King big brain

[@Guyon-to3tu]

"That's not how the Force works!'' - Han Solo

[@brandontea3815]

Thank you!

[@ayushtyagi1673]

Yes this theory is bullshit and wrong

[@nicholassmith3341]

I like the bird profile photo

[@Guyon-to3tu]

@@IpushironAgkyra and @nick smith - Thank you, really appreciate it! His name is Gerrit, he sadly passed away in May last year

[@Maxster2025]

Ayush and harshit ki vines bruh calm down it’s a theory not a exact thing

[@jeffman5428]

I know this was 3 years ago but I’ve got a theory that Cal is a clone of palpateen that was trained to be a Jedi of palpateens replacement

[@nerdydumbass5628]

I know I'm like a year late to this, but the force definitely can affect non-living things, that's most of what it does: Luke getting his lightsaber on Hoth, Yoda pulling Luke's ship out of the swamp, Yoda stopping that pillar from falling on Obi Wan, even Darth Vader's famous force-choke is an example of telekinesis, interaction with non-living things. The clone wars explains the interaction between living and non-living things via the force by dividing it into two things: the living force and the cosmic force. The living force is the midichlorians, whereas the cosmic force is more what obi-wan tells Luke, being the interconnectedness of the universe.

[@10yearsinthejoint39]

So we pretending Kylo’s force freeze doesn’t exist

[@thebigpeople7198]

very cool apparently lol

[@cobrakingofeart]

that was more like a variant/combo of force pull and push

[@beaver_4157]

Well yes but he freezees them not slow them down for a limited time

[@Draidis]

This was my thought too. I think Cal is doing the same thing like that but because that is a Darkside power and Kylo is much more powerful in the Darkside and much more trained than a padawan like Cal, he can fully stop things rather than slow them.

[@GeneralKnife]

@@Draidis yes this is the easiest explanation. Matpat clearly wanted to reach here.

[@vbarreiro]

If the skill has single target abilities, the theory doesn’t hold. It’s more likely this is like Kylo’s blaster stop.

[@asian_shortness3992]

If both the abilities were the same they would probably be a way to displace an object's atom. But there are notable differences between the 2. Cal's Slow fazes objects while Kylo's Freeze does not. So they are probably using different force powers.

[@yyeeeyyyey8802]

I was about to say the same. If the guy was just making his own time faster everything should get slowed.

[@Sammon_salad]

YES THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING

[@liberatoroftheholyland5098]

@@asian_shortness3992 he froze Poe at the same time as the blaster bolt

[@connorhillen]

That was my first thought, but there is a justification if we're digging for one. Basically, the perspective displayed to the *player* is just an abstraction of the *character's* perception. It's easy to think that the character could be so intensely focused on one singular thing that it "slows down", but not paying enough attention to other things to perceive them better. Think about looking at spinning fan blades. If they're a bit slow, and you aren't paying attention, they seem fast. Once you start following an individual blade you can make sense of it, but everything else besides the fan gets harder to track because you're so intensely focused. Probably just digging for justifications, but there's some sense to it at least.

[@dokkan6662]

Welp look at that Cal is now embracing the dark side in the new game…well played matpat.

[@BenedictDoodeman-bf2bk]

Great video, just one thing Dave Filoni didn't just work on Rebels, he also produced the Clone Wars. I would of loved to see what MatPat would have made of the original sequel scripts as well, which supposedly went WAY more in depth with the midichlorians and the journal of the wills.

[@judgment5090]

Matpat: what if we are just speeding ourselfs up? Me: *looks at screen. Sees only one object being slowed.* i feel betrayed.

[@dracoeris]

an attempt was made

[@Joshuazx]

Also, the force user's fall speed remains normal when using force slow.

[@christopherhornback4000]

Yeah, I agree. If I slow one stormtrooper, every other trooper is moving at normal speed. The theory of speeding up your own perceptions when you use Force Slow doesn't have a lot of evidence behind it. I like the theory, but it's instantly disproved by playing the actual game.

[@XallySucks]

When he first focused on Force Slow in this video I was like "please, please don't try to say it's actually force speed, cause it's so clearly not in this game" then he proceeds to do it and I'm like "wtf dude, you're literally showing footage of 1 thing being slowed while the rest of the world is at regular speed." There's no way he overlooked this, or at least I want to believe he didn't. This feels very much like he just really wanted to push this idea and hoped no one noticed the blatant flaw in it. I'm sorry, but this one felt a bit lazy to me... and forced, haha joke. *rolls eyes*

[@JomoOval]

@@christopherhornback4000 I feel the same way. If they use force slow in other media, maybe they could do it like Matpat's explanation were everything is slowed down instead of just one object

[@trgethan2470]

4:53 I think all it’s doing is basically adding friction to those objects, but because he is a Pattle One and because we haven’t seen many people see it, that’s why it doesn’t entirely freeze da opponent or da object

[@Yeeticus31]

Well we already know that jedi can go much faster than the average person, I had always assumed that force slow was just a way of visually showing Cal speed up

[@PyroGam3s]

no you are thinking of force speed, but they are easily confused because force slow is targeted at something and force speed is an augment for yourself. Since they have opposite targets the effects are very similar but they are still used for very different situations.

[@ItG8823]

Matpat: Mitocondria, you might remember it from 8th gra- (people who watch darkk mane) Me: THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!

[@gwylr9132]

Yes Also later he was talking about the cell membrane or vacoule

[@Naruku2121]

Your school too?