Exploding Ant-Man | Because Science Footnotes
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- Kyle discusses what would happen if you managed to explode Ant-Man, responds to your comments, and more!
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I think Ant-Man's different interactions with his environment strongly imply that he has some kind of control over his density, like his comics counterpart.
"If you have a sibling use their foreheads to find out"
I died...
Must have been a strong flick
Best ever Kyle hill quote. “The universe is like a used car salesmen.”
LMFAO MACH 77.... I laughed really hard right there. Thank you for that. Love the show.
damn.. i wouldn't want to go skydiving in that speed
The only problem with that, is that the acceleration of gravity doesn't change. In order to reach that speed he'd have to 'fall' from ~30,000km away from the surface. Even if he fell from the Burj Khalifa's top floor he'd only be going ~20-30% faster than a normal human terminal velocity.
I wonder if AntMan replaced the 'Penny' from the 'Penny of the empire state building' myth, with his density and velocity, would actually bury himself into the ground.
based on the Comic lore I've read over the years, Ant-Man (and Wasp to a lesser extant) have Mass Manipulation Capabilities"
Hence the reason they don't squishy squish any ants whilst riding them.
*Thor: Exploding Ant-Man*
Ant-Man: Can I get a taco at least?
Could you use a magnifying glass with an incandescent light because the tungsten is super hot?
Not a scientist, but: I'm sure it would make some difference though you wouldn't be able to achieve the full temperature.
The magnifying glass trick is able to refocus and amplify radiated heat but I imagine most is lost through other means, or blocked by the glass itself.
If you hold your hand near a light bulb, it's kinda warm, but if you touch the glass while it's on you'll get burninated.
Would like to see an example done, or math that shows the extent of how much heat you can get back though
Maybe pim particles can affect more than just the space between atoms, but also aspects of the atoms themselves, such as momentum,/perceived mass. Because there is also the joke with the building and tank keychain Pim has. It seems the writers know about the mass plot hole. One of Ant-man's powers is probably altering mass or momentum, so he can get the advantages of his small size, but still make his fist carry a lot of force. Which makes me wonder if you could vaporize him. If he could change his mass, I would say no. But if he changes his momentum, then yes?
Kinda pulling a nice young Lebowski look at the end there. The Kyle abides
Next episode gonna be about the Lamp? How much energy can be stored in a lamp?
I love lamp
I usually finish watching the current video I was watching before going to watch the update. Today is different because I saw "exploding".
YOUR SHIRT WAS BLUE IN THE IMMORTALITY VIDEO
Yes but was it a turtleneck or a vneck? Long sleeve or sleeveless?
@@NinjaBearFilms CRAP
@@NinjaBearFilms Vneck and short sleeve
@@NinjaBearFilms Because in the videos that is all I have ever seen him wear
I don’t think I’ve ever seen him wear a vneck…
OMG! Ant Man's terminal velocity would make him a more dangerous projectile than a bullet!
I believe Ant-man has some conscious control of his mass. Correct me if I'm wrong Marvel experts.
The MCU has never made any definitive statement on his powers. They are portrayed Very confusingly BUT the comics have definitively said that his mass is thrown to where ever but his Density stats the same.
This of course doesn’t hold up everywhere but it does partial explain some of the things he does.
I killed the valkyrie Queen in "give me a challenge"(right under highest diff) because It became "personal".
Wheres your determination Kyle!
Kyle, I'm disappointed in you lowering the difficulty to defeat the Queen of the Valkyries
A water heater rocket link? Ok I will collaborate with Myth-busters to do that.
Ermagherd first time mention on footnotes!
Been watching since 2015 on Nerdist (How big could a Titan be in real life? was the first I saw) and commented a bunch of times only to be missed.. with time zones as they are I have to be up at like 2am to catch new episodes but it's totally worth it.
You keep doing you Sir Kyle Hemsworth
WAIT A SECOND, if Ant Man got to Mach 77 for terminal velocity, he would reach a speed that would literally tear his body to shreds before actually hitting the ground
Ant Man might be the only case where the fall COULD kill him, not JUST the sudden stop at the end.
Kyle saying that guys name at 1.32 and before. Funniest thing ever. Great start to my working day. Love a good laugh.
Ah, I love the fresh smell of villainy in the morning
Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
YES! I knew you referenced xkcd when making the video!
IF antman kept his mass, like how they can dive through windows ect. Wouldn't that literally be like trying to burn/vaporize a human-sized antman?
Prediction: MIB episode has same or similar results as Mortal Kombat Skorpion spear episode......
Not to brag, but I've total beaten the Valkyrie Queen in God of War on normal mode (broke my controller doing it). I will never try to do that on hard mode ever!
As a photographer there's something called the "Sunny-16" rule which basically means in bright daylight you shoot at F/16 and whatever your ISO is for shutter speed, so 400ISO = 1/400th sec shutter.
The moon OTOH has the "Moony-11" rule, which basically means you shoot at F/11 and whatever your ISO is for shutter speed. Being fractions of the focal length, 1/11th of of the focal length lets in double the amount of light as 1/16th.
What this boils down to is that taking a picture of the Moon's surface it's only 1/2 as bright as the Earth's surface during bright daylight... from our vantage point on Earth. All things being equal, the light bouncing off the Moon on an average Lunar day would be roughly the same as the light bouncing off the Earth... and you're never going to start a fire by bouncing light off it either.
Hey Kyle how plausible is Falcon's MCU flight packs and the EX Gear from Macross Frontier.
Or Vulture from Homecoming
@@IulianAxiomAVI that's big wings. Falcon has small wings.
@@barrybend7189 You are right but I thing they are the same thing when we speak about the total size per propultion power.
But yeah, this would be a nice topic.
@@IulianAxiomAVI well I picked the EX Gear from Macross as its a glorified parachute replacement. And follows more realistic physics than Falcon's standing start flight.
Wanted to add some more details on the explanation of wall/ceiling scaling spiders, bugs and geckos because it is just so incredibly fascinating (aka crazy):
They do indeed use van-der-Waaly interactions with the surface they are walking on to keep themselfs stable. But even flat surfaces have those interactions. So why do their tiny hairs matter? This is where it gets crazy: because of how v-d-W forces work, the interaction between a flat surface and a half-sphere ( think: I C) is stronger than the interaction between the flat surface and a flat cylinder of the same diameter (think: I I)! So the microscopic hairs on the feet of those creatures substitute the normal flat surface of feet with the same area in small half-spheres, thereby increasing v-d-W interaction between foot and wall to such a degree that it can counteract gravity.
Wow, thank you! Fascinating.
King of Random has done some fun things with a very large magnifier. Also tried the double magnifier and found they get less energy through two than through one.
13:13 eye has some protective mechanisms like ieis contraction and reflectivly closing eye lid, but still bad idea.
What if ant man whipped out that mirror on your glass?
I watched an episode of The Action Lab and he made a big magnifying glass to melt materials from the sun. He put a piece of Spectralon under and it didnt even get warm because of all the light reflected. My question is, would Spectralon melt under the huge magnifying glass?
8:50
Antman is OP with that. Drop him from space with some metal tip to help him angle his trajectory and he could have pierced through Thanos like a semi-homing bullet. RIP if he misses though; and RIP if he doesnt.
Hungbajan Gamer won’t happen
Regarding the magnified moonlight thing... if I have a mirror reflecting sunlight on a magnifying glass, it can burn things WITHOUT the mirror needing to be hot itself. The reason you can’t start fires with moonlight isn’t so much “Moon rocks aren’t hot” as it is “Moon rocks are crappy mirrors”.
"The Grand Tour" James May ?............. awesome !!, not really a question I am a car super nerd
You should look up his Lego House. He's a pretty near guy.
8:47 I literally dropped my phone while laughing.
that magnifying glass lol, do that more please XD
So fun fact, lazaers are awesome because you can focus them down nearly infinitely to generate temperatures greater than the source. The physics behind it is cool, or hot?, And it essentially means you can ramp up lazers to generate infinite heat via focusing the wave lengths down to shorter and shorter levels, or maybe it was longer?, The point is, lazers be funky.
Aweee an here I was going to use my Go go go gadget magnifying glass.
"Perhaps Look at them A Bit Too Closely, YESS~!"
XDDD
YES! Time to steal Kyle's thumbprint! Mwhahaha!
Hey! I think there might be a valid reason to explain the difference between thermal energy and temperature pinned in the commits! 👍 awesome after show, I look forward to the cricket 😁
5:30 YES i have plenty of those
So if Antman's mass truly remains constant, he could theoretically turn into a black hole, by compressing himself to subatomic levels and making his mass "collapse" into itself. (that is if he can make himself shrink limitlessly)
14:50 I raise you better - mirror suit!
Currently at the Tony-breaks-his-finger part. Questions about how Ant-man's powers work are hard. Does he keep his mass? What's his impact force? I think this can be answered by how doctor Pym describes Pym-particles to work. In Ant-man 1 he states that the Pym-particle "changes the size and distance between atoms". My theory is that doctor Pym means that he is literally shrinking the atoms themselves. Making protons, neutrons, elektrons and even molecules smaller while maintaining their properties. I assume that some mass is lost here, because there are no events in the movie that suggest Ant-man keeps it. In contrast, there are many events that suggest the opposite: like hanging in Tony Stark's beard (try that weighing 90 kg) and jumping off a pencil (I shouldn't try that with my human mass!) During Ant-man's training, Hope Pym-Van Dyne states that when shrunk he is "like a bullet". This could make sense if he is able to deliver as much energy with his mini-muscles as with his human-sized ones (even number of energy, cells and molecules), but since force also has something to do with mass, I'm not sure whether this makes sense. It seems to me that it would help GiAnt-man more, since his enormous mass would make his punches very very strong.
1 million subs....very well deserved...love your channel...and your goal of making math and science less ARGGHHHHH and more MMMM!
I always thought the two buttons on his gloves were used to manipulate how much mass he was allowing himself to have. One click makes him small while retaining mass, another click makes him big. But the other hand has a button too. So I thought that he used it to manipulate mass. Holt it down while he is big and it makes his mass less, hold it down while small and it increases it.
"On the TWEE-tur." Why did I laugh so hard at that?
In your calculation for Ant Man's terminal velocity, do you take into account drag goes very differently in the supersonic (and transsonic for that matter) domain?
I seriously doubt it, that math is super complex. Especially when you take into account the amount of distance it would take to accelerate to that speed at under one g and the gradient air pressure/speed of sound that implies.
The fact that he would need to factor any of this in means ant-man is dead no matter what though :)
In regards to the question about Antman falling from a building, I think there's something that you didn't calculate for. Sure, if he keeps his mass but a decreased surface area, his terminal velocity will reach Mach 77. However, another thing to consider is that if he keeps his mass but has a decreased volume, he also has an unthinkable density, and anything he hits is going to bend/break before he does. It's not the same as flesh and bone hitting concrete at Mach 77. It's more like he's the concrete and the ground is the flesh and bone.
A physics professor names Jim kakalios, whom wrote the "book" "the physics behind superheros" states that in the comics Ant-Man has the ability to control his mass when he shrinks and expands. The comics claim this is from Pim particles.
Love the show and the hair man.
The proof of this could be that when Ant-Man rides on an ant or walks on normal floors he doesn't crush the ant or dig himself through the floor. But when he wants to punch someone he can put more mass into his hand to increase the power of the punch then shrink it back down
Kyle, can you explain the science behind the curving/turning arrow? Lars Anderson uploaded a video showing him shooting around obstacles, and I’m curious if you can use science to break it down.
That finale was really deep! Haha!
Hey Kyle, Something nobody seems to be talking about is that when Ant-Man goes subatomic but still retains his mass he'd create a black-hole by shrinking past his Schwartzchild radius.
Not going to put all my math here, but I got a schwartzchild radius for humans to be something like 9.35*10⁻¹⁸mm which is many times smaller than an atom. In the first movie when he shrinks down to subatomic we see him shrink so much that an atom becomes the size of a planet to him...and he keeps going.
Not 100% confident in my math, but I'd be interested to see your ideas on it or what happens when he retains his mass, but grows bigger.
You...you hooked the back of your neck one your first cast with a fishing rod... Ouch indeed good sir...
Hey Kyle, love the show, maybe you or anyone interested can help me with this. My general thought is that Ant-man should overheat when tiny and freeze when giant due to the changes in surface area and how our bodies lose heat.
So, Ant-man's surface area decreases from about 2.1m2 to about 0.005m2 which is about 400 times smaller when he shrinks. Essentially, Ant-man wouldn't be able to get rid of any heat or only about 1/400th assuming heat loss scales 1:1 with surface area. It feels like if a human lost the ability to lose heat it wouldn't take long until their core temperature increases to fatal levels.
However, after going through google for a bit it seems that humans lose about 80% of the energy we consume as heat. So if we assume Ant-man consumes 2600 Calories per day, that's about 10,900,000 joules per day which seems to work out as 100 joules of heat lost per second.
Here's where I feel like I'm going wrong. 1 joule of energy can raise 1 gram of water by 0.24C. However, if Ant-man keeps his mass then he still weighs 85000g so 100 joules per second will only heat him up by 0.000282C per second. 40C seems to be a potentially fatal core temperature which is 3 degrees above average. This means it will take about 10,600 seconds or almost 3 hours to overheat to that level. Have I got the maths wrong? That time feels way too long...
Ok, I just found a paper which seems to roughly agree with my prediction "without heat losses and temperature control the body will increase in temperature between 1.2C and 24C per hour. It seems that if Ant-man is fighting he will over heat in about 8 minutes but if he doesn't exert himself at all he could last up to 3 hours. This is now actually starting to seems vaguely close to what is shown in the films and provides a potential explanation for why giant mode drains him so much. His massive surface area just loses too much heat and he gets hypothermia.
Google 'body heat loss formula' for the paper. nd.edu -It's a pdf with a horribly long link.
Anyway, thanks for the great show.
Hey Kyle another great one. This show always gets me thinking about ways to analyze our current problems. I kinda have had a hunch about the benefit of work at home initiatives. Specifically for CO^2 emissions but possibly more energy efficiency in general. Hopefully I set this equation up and someone smart can add more. Let's take the Kyle town LA, apparently they have a nice rounded population number of 4 million and well known to have terrible traffic. A typical automobile averages at about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Let's assume the people of LA use their vehicles 50% of the time for work., it's definitely more but we aren't taking into account the vehicles that are used by the unemployed and plenty other things which is so we should aim low with these imagined values. This will be a very rough estimate. But If even just 10% of the people of L.A. started working from home that's a drop of potentially 920000 tons of CO^2 per year in LA. Also if 400,000 people worked from home that's a drop in traffic which I imagine would make the roads more efficient, resulting in more emission loss. It's not as good a fix as making all vehicles electric but it's probably one of the quickest ways we can cut emissions. In addition if companies could see it as a general drop in their overhead it should be a financial win for the companies that support work at home initiatives.
I used to play a game called Jetpack Joyride on my phone and in it you play as a guy who uses what looks like a mini gun to propel yourself off the ground, I was wondering, how much force and rounds per minute would it take to launch yourself of of the ground and fly
Hey Kyle with the pressure of being shrunk down to ant size and keeping the same mass so fast wouldn’t the water in his body combined with the heat from a considerable large magnifying glass cause the it to sublimate?
Slight correction, while the lens in your eyes have higher magnifying power, it's aperture is much smaller and thus the power it is focusing from the sun is less, so it is actually less powerful. It will still damage the retina and you are perfectly right about not staring at the sun.
The only way Ant Man makes sense as depicted in the movie (presuming he does retain his mass at any size), is if we can say that the relationship between gravitational attraction and size is different than gravitational attraction and mass is normally observed. So, when tiny, he's "lighter" but very dense and when oversize, he's less dense but sufficiently "heavy" so he doesn't blow away with the wind.
One sci-fi show did this (Eureka: Up In The Air), a Higgs field disruptor was causing things to float away. "Gravity" was working normally, but it was said that the Higgs field is what gave things "weight."
Also, depending on the depth of the focal point, you might not vaporize him by shining on him from above. You might only vaporize his head, since he, unlike an ant, is standing upright. But I imagine most magnifying glass have a pretty big focal point.
Would the space fold technology, as presented in Macross (Robotech) work like a wormhole?
I was wondering about the mass thing too. If Ant Man still retained his initial mass he wouldn't be able to walk on a dirt or other loose surface. If you had, lets say, a screw driver and put all of your weight on it...it would immediatly sink a long way into the ground unless it hit a rock or something.
14:58 does anyone know if that was camera trickery or did he pulled magic on all of us with? In talking about his sun glasses. They start off upsidedown and then he puts them on right side up.
Mr Kyle Hill l like all of your videos they are the best
Whether ant-man would "break" your finger or not depends on how you define break... Assuming his mass remains constant then his size, or contacted surface area; would determine whether the force was applied like flicking a wall, or like flicking an extremely sharp object since all that pressure would be concentrated into a very small point. P=F/A Creating a puncture through a finger may not qualify as breaking it (though it might break/puncture the bone), but I would prefer to pass on trying it either way. Thanks for another great episode.
The key to the moon issue is “diffuse light”. Like light reflecting off a piece of paper, the light reflecting off the moon gets scattered by inconsistencies in the surface. The moon is rock, not a polished mirror. The reflecting sunlight is imperfect and loses most of its intensity.
When falling from a height, you're size and weight matters. Falling from a ten story building, a modes won't even notice the fall, a cat or dog would break bones, a man would be killed and an elephant would splash. Example is from Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
I thought that moonlight is not that strong (even on the moon's surface) because light spreads as it moves outward (also an episode in mythbusters - the mirror myth from "the mummy") =)
So, the lense in our eyes focuses the ligth in one point but what if you are short-sighted? Then the image on your retina isnt as focused or clear. Does this have effect on how bad it is to look at the sun?
You could make a fire with moonlight. Many things start burning at reeeeeeeaaaaaaally low temperatures.
I suspect that the noisy cricket vid will be along the lines of without some fantastic alien tech to better distribute the recoil more evenly, J's arms explode or a nice new hole is blown through his chest by the weapon. Possibly both.
I want an episode about science on planeswalking hahahah
btw great show
Working on a science MTG episode as we speak! -- kH
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It's weird, the only explanation I could come up with is that the suit somehow selectively stores mass until he needs it. Like, when he's running on the gun, he has ant mass but when he needs to lift or punch the dude, he has man mass. Or maybe the suit uses the stored mass to generate force?
Hey kyle love the show, o don't know if it's just me but whenever I get in the shower or use the sink I can always tell by sound alone when the water goes from cold to hot. Is this a real thing or am I just imagining it? Also does this apply to other liquids as well?
Can you do a video on "King Arthur legend of the sword" when he welds the sword how much stronger and faster does it make him? Like you can see him break swords and knock people back, you also see him move a lot faster, but how fast and strong is he?
The contact patch flicking Ant Man might be a problem. It's possible (no numbers forthcoming) that Ant Man would stay still and the finger would rip as it passed over his tiny dense mass....
Hi Kyle since ants have such a relatively low terminal velocity that they don't basically take fall damage how much of an increase in gravity would be needed for at to splat when it hits the ground?
Does anyone know what the intro song to these videos is??
I think Ant-Man offloads his actual Mass but is still connected to the potential energy of that mass via quasiconnectivity. He is shown to have to be moving before making the larger punchy actions. Running along a gun barrel gains forward momentum to apply to the punch without weighing down the gun.
At least, that's how I assumed it was.
One correction of a correction: Looking at the sun might be dangerous, but it's not as bad as what your magnifying glass does to paper because unlike dry paper your retina is basically being actively watercooled by bloodflow on the backside and has static water as a thermal mass on the other side.
Try burning paper under an inch of water. Not that easy. You can still damage your receptors after looking into the sun for a while because unlike the temperatures required to burn paper, your proteins denaturate at a lot lower temperatures.
Hey man , greets from iran .
I was wondering if its possible to make an actual long sword from blood of your enemies. (The iron in blood cells)
Hmm you're right about the light til we taking lasers in to consideration.
coherent waves can be amplified
By inputting more energy, not by concentrating it. Having the light be coherent makes no difference in terms of the basic physics, just the method by which you would increase the total power of the light.
I've always thought about how powerful the Noisy Cricket is. I just chalked it up to Hollywood sci-fi.
Ant-Man's powers as depicted in the MCU imply that he can control his size and his mass independently, which, as you described in your Mjolnir video, could be a much cooler power
When matter is compressed it's temperature increases, so if Ant-Man compressed his mass into a smaller size wooden his temperature skyrocket. Would compressing hisself smaller than an ant in a short time increases temperature enough to vaporize his self?
Would someone with time pausing power be able to breath or see? since the air and light are frozen.
Would they get very cold or very hot or be ok?
Would they be able to move objects or not?
Is gravity based on time? If gravity itself was paused, would they float away?
Thinking back to your video on the properties of vibranium, wouldn't at least some of the weird Ant-Man abilities be explained by decoupling momentum and kinetic energy? What would happen if he had kinetic energy of a grown man, but momentum of an ant? Or vice versa?
but what are the ODDS of an unexperienced fisherman to hook its own back on the first throw?
what about the odds of hooking its own neck, head, ears, legs, arms, or it's own fisherman hat (harmlessly in the last case)?
That's a question for a future Because Science episode!
Easy difficulty for the valkyrie queen... peasant lol
RE: moonlight and sunlight, maybe that's the difference in universes where things like vampires and werewolves are affected differently by those two sources
Hey. Here's a question for you. What do you think would be the relationship between a microscopic photon sized black hole and a photon. Do you think it, a photon, would be suspended by the black hole? Or maybe it would pass through at a lower wavelength and reduced energy? What do you think?
6:37 Kyle would the phase of the water matter when that happened
LOL MACH 77, wouldn't he explode due to the intense heat of the air friction because of his speed before he can even hit the ground?
Rn I’m at 2:25 in the video but I’m assuming the next video will be how does a genie fit into a lamp?
0:11 he totally almost said " climbing up a VaGina" haha!!!😅