Dissecting the Jedi

When you think of Star Wars one of the first things you think of is the Jedi, or at least one of them or their lightsaber... you get the picture. But when you look at the Jedi themselves, ignoring the religious aspects and the equipment... (oh that sweet light saber... how i want you...) they boil down to one thing. the "Force", or the mind powers that the Jedi have. really that's all that that they have that other people can't make themselves.The Jedi are simply an organization of people with a combination of telepathic and telekinetic powers of a varying degree.

simple, right? apparently not, because in the much "loved" Phantom Menace, "Midiclorians" are introduced into the picture. It seems that Jedi get their powers from the Midiclorians that inhabit their bodies, and Midiclorians are apparently microscopic creatures in and of themselves.

this raises some questions after you find out that a Jedi's power are hereditary, if the powers come from Midiclorian, which are presumably a form of virus, and passed on to offspring of a jedi, is it possible for the Midiclorian to colonize a person who is not a Jedi?

if not, then why, is it some sort of genetic compatibility? and then, if a person who does not have Midiclorians in their system but has the genetic compatibility sleeps with a Jedi, would they gain the force?

this line of thought leads me to think; THE FORCE IS THE GREATEST STD EVER CREATED.