Physics 01
Could Ant-Man Really Shrink? The Physics Says No
A 1 cm Ant-Man who keeps his 86 kg is as dense as a white dwarf. Why you can't squeeze out the space in atoms, and the one trick that really shrinks them.
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Physics 02
Could Godzilla Exist? The Square-Cube Law, With Numbers
Scale an animal to Godzilla's 81,650 tonnes and its bones carry 3,000 MPa, ten times what bone survives. Heat is the weaker argument. Here is the math.
Physics 03
Do Microwaves Resonate With Water? No, and Here's Why
2.45 GHz is not water's resonant frequency. We plot water's dielectric loss, compute penetration depth, show why ice won't heat and why WiFi is harmless.
Physics 04
Could an Iron Man Arc Reactor Work? The Fusion Numbers
Could an Iron Man arc reactor work? 3 GW in a palm-sized core is 240,000 times a fission core's power density. The fusion, neutron and heat math.
Physics 05
Can a Penny From the Empire State Building Kill You?
A tumbling penny tops out at 11 m/s and lands with 0.15 J, about 100 times too little to crack a skull. Here is the drag math, and what would be dangerous.
Physics 06
How Much Energy Is in 1 Gram of Matter? E = mc² Worked
One gram of mass is 9 × 10¹³ J, about 21 kilotons of TNT. Why bombs convert under 0.1% of their fuel, plotted from a fitted binding-energy curve.