The force in Star Wars = spacetime ???

Fuckitall

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So I’ve just recently watched the movie Interstellar for the first time, and just a few hours ago I went to see Star Wars: the last Jedi for the second time. I’m a sciencey person, and stuff like relativity really interests me (even though I dropped out of physics in my senior year in highschool lol) but anyways, after watching interstellar I looked up einstein’s Theory of relativity, and just today as I watched TLJ it got me thinking...is the force in Star Wars the manipulation of the spacetime entity in einstein’s Theory?

For those of you who don’t know what the theory is - I’ve heard several versions and have read some stuff online. I may be wrong, but my basic understanding of the theory of relativity is the idea that the gravity that holds the universe together is not a force that pulls objects to each other, but rather, the entire universe exists within a four-dimensional entity known as spacetime. This analogy helped me understand it: imagine a trampoline. You put a heavy ball in the middle, which will create a dent in the trampoline. If you put another smaller ball on the edge of the trampoline, the ball will start to move towards the heavier and larger ball in the middle. That’s the idea of spacetime, where an object’s size and mass will affect the spacetime like the ball on the trampoline etc. and that’s how objects are drawn to another, like the moon orbiting the earth or the earth orbiting the sun.

Basically, my question and theory is, the mystical Force in Star Wars, as Luke Skywalker said in TLJ is the thing that connects and holds the universe together, the connection between all living things. Therefore, is the force spacetime? And are the Jedi able to manipulate it because they can manipulate space time etc.?

Am I making sense right now or am I just babbling? Does anyone understand what I mean?
 
Hey, not to be rude or anything, but I think you missed my point. Before I learnt about einstein’s Theory of relativity i just left the Force as some mythical thing made up for Star Wars movies. But after I watched Interstellar about blackholes and relativity, and watched TLJ again I just saw a similarity in the mythical “Force” and Einstein’s theorised “Spacetime”.

It’s just a theory that I think the Force in Star Wars could potentially exist as the “Spacetime entity” theorised by Einstein in his relativity theory.

I just had a thought that maybe the Force and the jedi’s manipulation of the force is like having the ability to manipulate the four-dimensional “spacetime” body that the universe supposedly exists in etc.
 
If that's the case, the 'Force' is simply the ability to control magnetism (gravity) and in a strange way, that sorta makes some sense and fits into the ethos of the Star Wars franchise. The theory of relativity basically means, the closer to the speed of light an object travels, the greater its mass becomes. To achieve 'light-speed' (warp speed is another term) some control over local gravity will be needed to prevent the object's mass approaching 'infinity'. In the Star Wars, the Jedi 'move' objects (Luke's battle with Darth in SW5 as a prime example or Yoda raising Luke's ship from the swamp), make them defy gravity and to me, that says 'gravity control'.
 
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