Zeraph

or the 'force' from star wars, psychokinesis, etc. I like to have realistic reasoning when I'm reading scifi and fantasy. Plus I like theory crafting. So for fun:

What form of real energy/force or whatever could travel through empty space and transfer into a vector of kinetic energy upon touching an object or being?

The only thing I can think of is the electromagnetic force except one needs absurd amounts of energy to affect things with weaker charges like organic beings (I think is how it works...I know we've levitated small spiders and frogs with really really intense fields). And if one has that much energy then using it to simply push/pull stuff is a huge waste.

Gravity is the same way, as you'd need even more absurd amounts of energy to warp space enough to create a gravitational surge capable of moving decent sized objects.

The strong nuclear force I'm pretty sure only works on other gluons and that other thing to make protons and neutrons. The weak nuclear force maybe as that acts between electrons and the nucleus. But I dunno.

I suppose one could direct cold plasma...but I don't think that would transfer kinetic energy very effectively. Same thing with photons and the like.

Any ideas?