May The Qi Be With You

Qi or Chi, vital force, could it be the fifth element in eastern alchemy? I always thought the four elements present in both eastern and western alchemy - possibly borrowed from each other - who knows - represent in fact the four states of matter with a fifth one - or the qintessence in the west, the hypothetical aether in which Tesla, the great inventor, "believed".

Today we're past that. We know the fifth state of matter is Einsntein-Bose condensate though in public's conscience everything has vanished. If we asked today 10 people on the street what are the 4 states of matter and which is the fifth, what are they going to say? Indeed, we are past that. Under the constant pressure of media, nobody cares about anything but big bums of divas. Could it be also because of the brainwashing power of movies of which we may note the title. Fifth element. Who remembers which were the other 4?

To make things even more complicated we also have in physics 5 fundamental forces of which only 4 we know the fundamentals or laws of fields or particles beyond them. Also 5 senses described metaphorically in the most important Buddhist Sutra.

Of course things wouldn't be complete without a kuji-kiri matrix. Which is... 4 by 5. Though i don't see there any of the name of the elements naming lines or columns. There is nothing we know scientifically about this and what it may represent.

Now let's bring in all this semantic soup the evolution of Chinese kanji character Qi starting with the ancient parental script of today's Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts called "oracle bones script"

And even a table showing the evolution of most important Chinese kanji since oracle bones script. Note the kanji signs for water fits a bit the analogy. Very similar with the symbol on the Korean flag.

Then were the signs for the four elements on the Korean flag come from?

A bit of trouble with Google Translate. English translation not aligned. Note how the Chinese knew at least in their language that the Earth is actually a ball of ground.

As for Star Wars please look at these images. There is a whole species of movies in Japan called Jidai Geky knigts.

And a picture of an authentic samurai armor since 1860.

And the car of my downstairs neighbor "the witch" back in @2004 - 2007. Kia Rio.