(December 30, 2016 at 12:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(December 30, 2016 at 8:45 am)Jehanne Wrote: Hee, hee...the work-energy theorem still applies:
And, so, no star-sucking planets, but hey, it's just a movie/novel! Don't forget that a "cloaking device" was mentioned very briefly in Star Wars: A New Hope!
Does it? It's essentially a swords-and-sorcery fantasy story. This is a universe where - essentially - magic is a real thing. Our physics obviously do not universally apply in the SW universe.
The crawler implies, clearly, that it was "long, long ago" in a galaxy "far, far away", and so, clearly, it takes place in this Universe with its (our) universal constants.