The Physics of Superheroes, the Sequel

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Holy Δx Δp ≥ ℏ/2 Batman! Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku joins us for another discussion of superheroes and the amazing physics behind their incredible powers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:16.0	This is Star Talk.
0:18.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal natural physicist, and I work at the American
0:23.4	Museum of Natural History in New York City, where I also serve as director of their Hayden
0:28.1	Planetarium.
0:29.1	My comedic co-host today is Chuck Nice.
0:32.4	Chuck.
0:33.4	As you may know, in a previous show, we spoke with Professor James Cacalios of the University
0:38.3	of Minnesota, and you might ask why.
0:40.8	He's a professor of physics, and he authored the book The Physics of Superheroes.
0:44.7	And we've had enough material there.
0:46.6	We made it into two shows, this being the second of those two.
0:50.1	And that first show was immensely popular.
0:52.2	I'm sure.
0:53.2	And we're going to try to do that again.
0:55.1	And it turns out that superheroes, if you think about them through the lens of
0:59.0	a physicist, you can learn a lot of science by looking at what laws they obey and what
1:04.2	laws they violate.
1:05.2	I'm sure they violate a lot more than they obey.
1:09.0	That's for sure.
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