Do Scientific Superheroes Exist?
16th March 2010
People might probably had moments watching science fiction films when they thought, "No, that couldn't happen." And it was true, as sci-fi movies often contain elements that don't conform to the laws of physics. Experts have said at the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science in San Diego, California that modern science has been saying a lot about the plausibility of such things, as stopping an asteroid from destroying the planet, and those have been teachable moments.
Sidney Perkowitz, Emory University physicist and author of Hollywood Science, has said that taking the asteroid example: films such as "When Worlds Collide" have been always good about estimating the impact of celestial objects hitting the planet, Earth. In real life, the Tunguska Event, in which a meteor hit part of Siberia, Russia, in 1908, decimated hundreds of square miles of forest. A meteor also created the Barringer Crater in Arizona, nearly a mile wide.
Science fiction movies, however, often incorrectly portrayed the "save the day moment," since not even an H-bomb has the power to deflect an asteroid. James Kakalios, technical consultant on the recent "Watchmen" movie and a physicist at the University of Minnesota, has said that the powers of superheroes and villains have been bringing up important concepts in physics.
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