1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: The streets are talking about us. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 2: I really love Jordan Peele. You could just see how 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: smart he is. 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: Listen. I like horror, but not like no plot line. 5 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 3: This has made my eyes are peeled, they're dry when 6 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,159 Speaker 3: I leave the movies because I know I need to 7 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 3: look for every little clue. 8 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: Like where is it that ambulance? It might mean something? 9 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: Right, And everybody turns into researchers. Listen, everybody turns into 10 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 2: a detective exactly everybody. 11 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 3: Yes, people are saying did you see whatever was embroidered 12 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 3: on the shirt? And I'm like, on the shirt, what 13 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 3: was it? 14 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: How did you see? 15 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 2: People are turning into what's the name of that movie 16 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 2: with Tom Hanks where he was running around da Vinci 17 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 2: Code Yes, Code, da Vinci Code us Yes. And I 18 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: love it because you could really see like people's scientific 19 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: minds coming out and it's so beautiful. I'm like, look 20 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 2: at Jordan Peele turned us all into PhDs. 21 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: Listen, everybody got on a PhD is suspense Okay, I'm 22 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: t T and I'm the key and. 23 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 2: From Spotify Studios, this is Dope Labs. 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 3: So everybody is going crazy about Jordan Peel's US. Yes, 25 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 3: people are seeing it two, three, four times in a 26 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: row at the theater, just trying to piece. 27 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: All those clues together. 28 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 3: But another reason why we really love it is because, 29 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 3: just like with Get Out, Jordan Peel is making these 30 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 3: blockbuster movies but with primarily black characters. Yes, right, And 31 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 3: so I feel like every time something like this happens 32 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 3: when we have these black and minority characters in these 33 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 3: huge films, everybody goes crazy, like get Out us crazy 34 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 3: rich Asians, like everybody's going wild for it. We have 35 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 3: people talking on Twitter, Instagram, the memes get out of control, 36 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 3: and I always feel, like he said, Ray, I'm like, 37 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 3: I'm rooting for everybody, right, And the. 38 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: Last time people were this excited, I feel like it. 39 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: Had to be Black Panther. Yes, that was revolutionary. 40 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 3: I feel like for us, Black Panther was doubly exciting 41 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 3: exactly because not only was it, you know, these black 42 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 3: superheroes which we had never seen before, well. 43 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: We've seen them before, you know, but not like this, 44 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: not like that. 45 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: But then there was also this whole like science and 46 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 2: tech aspect of Black Panther that we were just like, yes, 47 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 2: because black people were at the forefront. 48 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: Surrey, Surrey is listen when Surrey came on the screen, 49 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,519 Speaker 1: I was like, a TT girl, is that you girl? 50 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 2: I was like, I totally identify with Surrey. 51 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: Did Marble run you your check? Marvel? Were you following 52 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: me around? 53 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 4: Duke? 54 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 3: Come on somebody? 55 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: Because I was like, this is TT. I loved it. 56 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: I love watching her create things, event things, modify things, 57 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: and prove things, but then also just be super fun 58 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 2: and dope and funny and all these things like that. 59 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: So I really really loved it. 60 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: So today we are talking about Wakanda, specifically vibranium, because 61 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 3: that's really the star of that movie. 62 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: Yes, okay, this makes me very happy. Yes, T is 63 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 1: in our happy space. 64 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: Yes, because for those of you who don't know, my 65 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 2: parents are West African and I also am a material 66 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: scientist and engineer. So Wakanda just encompasses all the things 67 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: that I love, yes, Africa and science. 68 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: So let's kick off the recitation, right. 69 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 3: We want vibranium, and we want it now, but we 70 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 3: also want to know a little bit more about it. 71 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: Let's hear from you. Here are some of your thoughts 72 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 2: on vibranium and its possibilities. 73 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: Vibranium can do anything. 74 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 4: Libranium is powerful, like it can. 75 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 5: It can reverse time, it can stop bullets, it can 76 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 5: heal you. It's amazing. It's already had a lot of 77 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 5: applications weaponized for defense, military, civil. 78 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of like hopeful, right. Vibranium, I 79 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: think is like just wronger armor. 80 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 5: So if you get hit, obviously it absorbs the force 81 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 5: and gives it back. 82 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: Do you think that there's anything out there in our 83 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 2: world that is like vibranium. 84 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 5: The closest thing I could think of is carbon fiber. 85 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 5: If you could treat it or reinforce it, it's a 86 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 5: pretty durable material. 87 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: I would say CBD is closer to vibranium. 88 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 5: At least it heals. 89 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: What about absorbing impact, well, depends what kind of impact 90 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: we're talking about. Come on something. 91 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 5: Mental impact, anxiety, Okay, stress. 92 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's possible. I don't know if we 93 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 4: found it or not, but I mean, I'm sure y'all 94 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 4: gonna tell us. 95 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 3: So here's my thing about vibranium, and it's part of 96 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 3: why I wanted to do this episode. 97 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:44,239 Speaker 1: Today. 98 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 3: I was a little sad because I had all that 99 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 3: joy from Black Panther, but then the way Avengers Infinity 100 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 3: War ended was to Chialla turned into toast crunk, Like, hey. 101 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: B what happened to the vibranium? I was devastated. 102 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 2: Oh don't know how vibranium works, right, I was like, 103 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 2: excuse me, hello, Marvel, Like, we saw a lot of 104 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: stuff happen in Black Panther, and he was not supposed 105 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 2: to die. 106 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: He shouldn't be able to die. 107 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: He should have just absorbed all of that and then 108 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 2: been bounced it back exactly and killed Thanos. And so 109 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: I'm trying to get all the clues I can about 110 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 2: what might happen next without reading the spoiler blogs, right, 111 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 2: But the only way I can know what happens next 112 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: is by knowing, like what happened so far? 113 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 3: And what are the like? Tell me more about VIBRAINI. 114 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 3: I want to know all about it. And that's why 115 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 3: I'm so lucky to have you here to explain it, 116 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 3: because it's totally your wheelhouse. You are everything physical sciences, materials, engineering, 117 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 3: physics equals MC square. That's you, that's your arena. Those 118 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: are all my favorite things. And I'm always like, huh, 119 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 3: so I have questions is it possible? 120 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: Word did y'all to come back? 121 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 3: Because the new Avengeance movie is coming out Endgame Avengers 122 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 3: and Game. 123 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: But I really want to know, like what happened? Is 124 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: it over for? Is it over for Wakanda or is 125 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: it Wakanda forever? It's Wakanda forever, I think. 126 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 3: And then I want to know is any of this 127 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 3: stuff possible? Because science fiction is sometimes a whole lot 128 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 3: of science and only a little bit of fiction. 129 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 2: So I think that a lot of the stuff that's 130 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: in Black Panther could be possible. There are parts of 131 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: it where you kind of have to stretch a little 132 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 2: bit of reality, but all of it falls in line 133 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: with some type of physics and chemistry that we already know. 134 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: That you already know. 135 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 3: Because that some folks know that that's a special group 136 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 3: of people and I'm not in that group. 137 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel like I understand a lot of 138 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 2: the physics and a lot of the chemistry and a 139 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 2: lot of the materials science, and so for me, I 140 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: want to know how these things are being played out 141 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 2: in the lab, Like what are scientists doing now to 142 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 2: push us towards Wakanda? 143 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 3: And it feels like it's more real, like it's more 144 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 3: of a possibility in these kind of fields. Absolutely like 145 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 3: that movie felt like this stuff is around the corner, like. 146 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 2: Those Kimoio beads that are on their wrist. That reminds 147 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: me of an Apple Watch. 148 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 3: That's an Apple Watch. Come on Apple Watch five with 149 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 3: a hologram. I want to see it. Is that gonna 150 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 3: be in the next update? 151 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: Imagine Uncle Curtis's hologram popping up right in front of you, 152 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 2: right man. 153 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 3: First of all, that is my dad, and I'd have 154 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 3: to turn that feature off because he'd be like, what 155 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: y'all talking about it? 156 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: That makes me so happy? 157 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 3: So I want to know is it possible and what 158 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 3: needs to happen to make it possible? And if you 159 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 3: have vibranium, because you're talking real casual about it, if 160 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 3: you have something that's close to it, or are those 161 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 3: little heart shaped herbs? 162 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: I want to know about it. 163 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: And just like you've been doing in all the previous episodes, 164 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: for me, I will hold your hand through this. 165 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 3: Take me slow, Take me slow, okay. So that brings 166 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 3: us to the dissection. 167 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: And to help us, we've called on doctor James Cacalius. 168 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 4: I'm a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy 169 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 4: at the University of Minnesota and the author of the 170 00:07:58,680 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 4: Physics of Superheroes. 171 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 2: So full disclaimer, we know that the stuff that's going 172 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 2: on in Black Panther is science fiction emphasis on the fiction, 173 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 2: but it's still. 174 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 3: A lot of fun to like really stretch your scientific 175 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 3: muscle and ask, like what if? 176 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, and theorizing about some of this stuff using actual 177 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: science is also just a great way to sharpen up 178 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 2: some of your scientific skills, like critical thinking. 179 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 3: And doctor Kacalius tells us that one of the fun 180 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 3: things about the science of Superheroes is that it forces 181 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 3: you to ask, Okay, is this possible? And then what 182 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 3: do I have to change about the laws of physics 183 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 3: to get this to work? And specifically, what is the 184 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 3: minimum thing that has to change to get this to work? 185 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 3: As opposed to waving your hands and saying everything can 186 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 3: be different. 187 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 4: And that's how we advance our knowledge and understanding. So 188 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 4: to some extent, talking about the science of superheroes is 189 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 4: kind of like weight training for our brain. 190 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 2: So what we're going to be doing with this episode 191 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 2: is talking about the science inside of Black Panther to 192 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 2: try and understand how far away we are from Wakanda. Yeah, 193 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: that is it a little gap. Is it like mind 194 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 2: the Gap or is. 195 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: It like the. 196 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 3: How far away are we from some of this technology? Yeah, 197 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 3: so let's start with the basics. Let's set the scene 198 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 3: for the land of Wakanda. Thousands of years ago, a 199 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 3: meteor approaches the earth. Once it lands, that meteorite has 200 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: vibranium in it, and there are five tribes arguing over 201 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 3: the vibranium that's now been deposited by this meteorite. 202 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 2: Eventually, four of the five tribes reconciled and the Kingdom 203 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 2: of Waconda was formed. And with vibranium, they were able 204 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 2: to develop technology that was more advanced than any other country, 205 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 2: but they were able to keep it all under wraps. So, 206 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 2: like you remember, from the outside looking in, it looked 207 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 2: like just an open plane, right, But then once you 208 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 2: got past that force field, it was the jetsons. 209 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 3: And so then my question is are there places like 210 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 3: that right now where they're just holding up a sheet 211 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 3: that looks like. 212 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: There's nothing here? Move along, look behind the curtain. Yeah, 213 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: is a place like this possible? 214 00:09:59,480 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 2: Yes? 215 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 4: And no? So what are the things that leads to 216 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 4: a advanced city advanced country? Is access to unique, valuable 217 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 4: natural resources? And Wakanda having access to the meteor that 218 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 4: contain vibranium certainly fits the bill there. The question is 219 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 4: do they have all of the natural resources that they 220 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 4: might need to develop advanced. 221 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 2: Technologies, resources like silicon, phosphorus, boron, aluminum, gallium, all of 222 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 2: these things that are kind of like found in the earth. 223 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 2: But they also help with advancing our technology, so they 224 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: help make circuits that are put into our cell phones 225 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 2: and things like that, and help with all types of 226 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 2: technological advances. 227 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 3: So what you're gonna need is vibranium and all these 228 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 3: other materials all in the same place, specifically if you're 229 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 3: not gonna interact with the outside world and keep all 230 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 3: of this under wraps. Yes, I think there are two 231 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 3: major things that really shine for me in Black Panther, 232 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 3: aside from Surrey our queen. It is the vibranium and 233 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 3: then that heart shaped orb which is basically cilantro. 234 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: So I love cilantro. Cilantro tastes like soap. Mm hmm, 235 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: that's you have a mutation. I need to tell you? 236 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: Did you just tell me? 237 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 2: I have a teenage view Ninja turtle not quite like that, 238 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 2: but close all the taste buds so I do like pizza. 239 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. 240 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 3: So there's vibranium and then there's that herb, right, and 241 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 3: so for me, I always thought of vibranium is like 242 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 3: this special purple element. 243 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 2: So in chemistry, things are classified by how they are 244 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 2: put together. So for the purpose of this episode, we're 245 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 2: gonna focus on three categories, atom, element, and molecule. If 246 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 2: you think about them like legos, one single lego is 247 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 2: an atom is the building block of all things, and 248 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 2: then an element is basically what color that lego is, 249 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 2: So blue lego, so blue would be the element. And 250 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: then when you start to stack those legos, that's when 251 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 2: you get molecules. So like if you take water, for example, 252 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 2: water is a molecule, so that's three legos together, So 253 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: you have two hydrogen legos and one oxygen lego put 254 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 2: together to make a molecule. So if we're talking about 255 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 2: vibranium and what it could possibly be in relation to 256 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 2: these things, it would probably be something closer to a 257 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 2: molecule and not an element. 258 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 4: Because if it's an element, it's an element that behaves 259 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 4: in a way that no other element ever has. 260 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 3: Okay, So the reason it might be a molecule is 261 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 3: because of its behavior, so like what it can do? 262 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 1: That's right. 263 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 2: So you know how the periodic table of elements is 264 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 2: set up, and it's not set up randomly. It's this 265 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 2: big grid of letters and everything on it that we 266 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 2: all saw in high school. But they are arranged in 267 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 2: very specific ways, and that arrangement is dependent on each 268 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 2: element's properties. And the way that vibranium is, it would 269 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 2: fall way outside of the periodic table. 270 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: It feels an element. 271 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 3: So what are some of the properties of vibranium that 272 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 3: make it so amazing? In black panther like, what are 273 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,439 Speaker 3: some of the properties? We see them kind of exploiting. 274 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 3: Can you walk us through that? 275 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 2: So one of the main things about vibranium, which is 276 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 2: how I think it got its name, is that it 277 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 2: has this ability to absorb vibrations. 278 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 4: It's like super absorbent for any kind of vibration, any 279 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 4: kind of oscillation, any kind of sound. 280 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 2: And vibrations can come in different forms. So when we 281 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 2: whittle it all down to one word, it's energy. And 282 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 2: so you can get vibrations from heat, you can get 283 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: vibrations from sound. Yes, you can get vibrations from physical contact, 284 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 2: which we see in black panther. And what vibranium is 285 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 2: able to do is take all of those vibrations and 286 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 2: store it and hold on to it in a way 287 00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 2: that most molecules can't. 288 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 3: Y'all, but open your mind, see, okay, because CT is 289 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 3: dropping some gems. I thought you could only get vibration 290 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 3: from sound. 291 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 2: No, So if you think about a piece of glass, 292 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,719 Speaker 2: if you were to take a if you were to 293 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 2: take a glass and you were to pour hot water 294 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 2: into it, eventually the entire glass will be hot. 295 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: Right. 296 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 2: That heat is actually vibrations in the hot water that 297 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 2: are being transferred to the glass, and that glass those 298 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 2: molecules that make up the glass start to vibrate as well. 299 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: Is that how water is boiling. 300 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 2: It's erupting mm hmm, it spawns being broken, and that's 301 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: how water turns into steam. 302 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 3: When they said good vibrations, they didn't just mean sound. 303 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 3: They meant physical, okay. 304 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 2: And the other really cool thing about energy is that 305 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: it can't be creator or destroyed. It has to be 306 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 2: coming from somewhere and going somewhere. 307 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 4: So presumably that energy has to show up in some 308 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 4: other place. 309 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 3: I think one of the coolest things we saw was 310 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: sure in the lab and that suit made of vibran 311 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 3: new how is he kicking the suit and falling backwards. 312 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 2: Weapons is that when t'chala goes to kick the suit 313 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 2: and once it hits the suit, the vibranium has this 314 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 2: unique ability to store that energy. When he goes to 315 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 2: kick the suit the second time, the suit is able 316 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 2: to give off that energy that he first put into 317 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 2: the suit. 318 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 4: So that's why when T'Challa kicks the suit on the 319 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 4: mannequin the first time, it goes flies across the room, 320 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 4: and then he kicks it at the same spot the 321 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 4: second time, and then he gets kicked across the room 322 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 4: because it stored that energy and then gave it back 323 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 4: to him as a recoil the next time. 324 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: And so it's just transferring. It's transferring from him to 325 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 3: the suit, and then the suit is storing it to 326 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 3: go right back out right to him. It's almost like 327 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 3: the scientific version of my haters make me stronger, right, 328 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 3: So if you think about it, somebody's insulting you or 329 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 3: injuring or punching at you, it just builds up and 330 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 3: then you're able to take those hits and push them 331 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 3: right back out. 332 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 2: Next thing you know, you Barack Obama. 333 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 3: Soh Now I'm getting a better understanding of how this works, 334 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 3: and then I'm also starting to think about some of 335 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 3: its limitations. Now I feel like you and doctor Kacallius 336 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 3: and the rest of your physical sciences crew have been 337 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 3: holding out. Are there any other materials that we should 338 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 3: know about that have some really cool features? 339 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: So there's nothing exactly like vibranium, but there are some 340 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 2: things out there that have similar qualities, And one of 341 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 2: my favorites is something called a piezo electric. It's a 342 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 2: material that when you apply stressed to it, so it 343 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 2: could be in the form of pressure, it changes the 344 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 2: materials properties slightly so that it then generates electricity. The 345 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 2: way it's kind of like vibranium is that it's taking 346 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 2: one form of energy and its output is a different 347 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 2: form of energy. But it's not like vibranium because it's 348 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 2: not storing that energy to give it back out. Yes, 349 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: and then there are also materials that are called sono luminescent, 350 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 2: which means that they take in sound sono and then 351 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,359 Speaker 2: they are able to put out light loomy exactly. 352 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 4: This can be seen in actually in something as simple 353 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 4: as water where you can develop a bubble and you 354 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 4: pound it with sound waves and the bubble actually glows 355 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 4: and gives off light. 356 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 2: My favorite material right now is the strongest material known 357 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 2: to man. 358 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: What is it graphene? 359 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 2: And it's basically a single layer of carbon that's arranged 360 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 2: in a very specific way. 361 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: It is only made of carbon, so only carbon, one 362 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: gray lego. 363 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 2: So it's basically six gray legos arranged in a hexagon. 364 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 4: Scientists have actually studied how bulletproof graphene is. It's stronger 365 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 4: than steel, it's stronger than lead, it's stronger than kevlo. 366 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 2: A thin layer of it that's about the thickness of 367 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 2: saran wrap. It would take an elephant balancing on a 368 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 2: pencil to break it. 369 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 3: So you have to concentrate that weight, yes, and it 370 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 3: would have to be a lot two tons. A ton 371 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 3: is about two thousand pounds, so we're talking about four. 372 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: Thousand pounds on a pencil. 373 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 3: This is what's crazy to me, though tt Like you 374 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 3: just told me how awesome vibranium is. It can store energy. 375 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 3: When Thano snapped his fingers, that's vibrational energy. I don't know, 376 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of vibration is it's something. 377 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 3: Why didn't that suit save t Challa. 378 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 2: That is a very good question, because up until this point, 379 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 2: vibranium is the answer to all of our problems. Yeah, 380 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 2: but the Infinity Gauntlet seems to have some type of 381 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: cheat code work around that does not work on vibranium. 382 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 4: Once he has all six Infinity Stones Thanos, including of course, 383 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 4: remember the Reality Stone, he has the power of basically 384 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 4: a god, and at that point the laws of physics 385 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 4: are subject to change with the snap of a finger. 386 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 3: So this is a case where there's only a little 387 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 3: bit of science and a lot of fiction because we 388 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 3: know no one is napping their fingers and eliminating the 389 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,959 Speaker 3: laws of physics. But this makes me hopeful, right, This 390 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 3: makes me feel like anything could happen in the sequel. 391 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 2: Like people could come back from the bottom of the toaster. 392 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: Yes, and just reassemble whole slice of bread. I'm ready. 393 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 3: So when we get back, we're going to dive into 394 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 3: some other Marvel characters that we have questions about, like 395 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 3: Thor that's a fine man and Iron Man Tony Stark 396 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 3: has all the tech, but sure he may have them. 397 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: Be stay tuned. 398 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 2: So we're back and all this talk about superheroes made 399 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 2: us wonder if you could have any superpower, what would 400 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 2: it be. 401 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: Here's what y'all said. 402 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: Teleportation the ability to like leave one situation a one 403 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 4: time sp place and appear in another. 404 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 5: My superpower would be to like convey emotions, like and 405 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 5: receive emotions. It's kind of cheesy, but I think one 406 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 5: of the biggest impasses we have with solving social issues 407 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 5: is like a lack of empathy. And I think if 408 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 5: you could literally put yourself in someone's position and understand, 409 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 5: like where they're coming from and how the world is 410 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 5: affecting them, we could make a lot of progress and 411 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 5: solve a lot of issues. 412 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 2: So, like a new age Captain Planet met Heart, my 413 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 2: tea was the most powerful all along. 414 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: I like you. 415 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 4: I would say time travel too. 416 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 3: The same dimission, different dimension different So you want to 417 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 3: be able to go back and forth and lift. 418 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: And right all of it. I want to hop around. 419 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: I want to go back in time, fix some stuff. 420 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: Go ahead, pick some stuff up. Butterfly fat, I saw 421 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: to the future too too. That's the one. That's the one. 422 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 2: Everything with vibranium kind of makes sense to me. But 423 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,679 Speaker 2: then there are some parts of the marble world that 424 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 2: I just can't wrap my mind around you and me both. 425 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 2: One of them is Thor's hammer. And the way that 426 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 2: Thor's Hammer came to be was that Odin whispered into 427 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: this hammer and said, whoever's worthy can pick it up, 428 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 2: whoever's not can't pick it up, right. But I wanted 429 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 2: to know if that is a physical property. Is there 430 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 2: some chemistry associated with that. 431 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 4: The hammer is made of, as you know, uru metal, 432 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 4: presumably in the handle of the hammer, there is some 433 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 4: biosensors of some sort that can quickly scan whoever's trying 434 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 4: to lift the hammer, and using criteria that Odin only knows, 435 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 4: they can determine whether you meet the worthiness threshold or not. 436 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 3: Like something that scans your eyeball is a biosensor, and 437 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 3: so you're so something like that that's scanning your hand 438 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 3: when you go to pick it up detects who you are. 439 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's one scientific theory that might explain Thorst's hammer, 440 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: and the other has to do with how it can 441 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 2: manipulate its weight. If Thort's hammer were just heavy, the 442 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 2: hulks should be able to pick it up somehow, right, 443 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 2: And and he isn't and we would also see it 444 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 2: falling through tables and anything that it was placed on 445 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 2: top of, which we don't see. 446 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 4: Right, So somehow it's got to be able to change 447 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 4: its heaviness at will. And so presumably URU metal, when 448 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 4: sufficiently triggered, when the handles it determines that someone's trying 449 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 4: to lift it who's not worthy, Uru metal will emit gravitons. 450 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 1: What are gravitons? 451 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 2: The idea of gravitans is a theory, and it's this 452 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 2: theory that says that the way that we are all 453 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 2: weighted down so with gravity, is actually particles that are 454 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 2: emitted from all things. 455 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 3: So all things have these particles associated with them, yes, 456 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 3: and what are those particles gravitons? 457 00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: So how does that play into the hammer? Though? 458 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 2: So as soon as you touch the hammer, if it 459 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 2: says you are not worthy, then it starts to emit 460 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 2: gravitons that are equivalent to the force that you're applying, 461 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 2: but in the opposite direction. So as you're pulling up, 462 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 2: it is emitting gravitons down with that same amount of force. 463 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: So even though it may be there's no net movement, 464 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: there's no net movement. 465 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 3: Is there vibranium in the hammer, because it feels like 466 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 3: it is absorbing some of that. 467 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: Like, that's crazy. 468 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 4: So that's why when Tony Stark and Rody are trying 469 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 4: to lift the hammer at the same time, they're applyotting 470 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 4: this large upward force. But the weight of the hammer, 471 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 4: it just emits more gravitons and the weight of the 472 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 4: hammer increases, thus that there's no net force. If there's 473 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 4: no net force, an object at rest remains at rest. 474 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 2: And then as soon as you let go, the gravitons 475 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 2: just stop emitting. 476 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 3: So what about the big blue power source in oron 477 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 3: man's chest. 478 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,719 Speaker 1: Right, that's a lot of power to holding your chest? 479 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: Is that like heartburn? That's what that feels like to me. 480 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 2: Sometimes, Shoot, I agree, man, we get old. We're talking 481 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 2: about heartburning. 482 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: Thought. 483 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 4: It's called an arc reactor. It's about the size of 484 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 4: a hockey puck and puts out the power of three 485 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 4: nuclear power plants. And they don't say it directly, but 486 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 4: they kind of imply at some point in the first 487 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 4: movie that it is an essence a nuclear fusion reactor. 488 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 3: Okay, so you already know my question nuclear fusion. 489 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 2: So there's two different types of ways to generate these 490 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: large amounts of energy. So one is fission and one 491 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: is fusion. Fission is when you take a really large 492 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 2: nucleus of an atom and you break it apart, and 493 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 2: that process of breaking it apart generates a lot of energy. 494 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 2: Fusion is when you take two smaller nuclei and put 495 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: them together. In the act of pushing them together generates energy. 496 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 4: So the take fission, where you take a big nucleus 497 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 4: and split it apart, is the atomic bomb. Fusion, where 498 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 4: you take to smaller nuclei and fuse them together is 499 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 4: the hydrogen bomb. 500 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 3: Fusion and fission are just two ways to generate the energy. 501 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 3: That energy is stored in that hockey book in Tony 502 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 3: Stark's chest, and that's what powers the Iron Man suit exactly. 503 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 2: And the other crazy thing about Iron Man is that, 504 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 2: you know how he's just shooting lasers and flying and 505 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 2: he doesn't have to say fly or shoot hyperbeam or whatever. 506 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 2: He just kind of thinks about it. Doctor Cacalius says 507 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 2: that that is a real thing that is not fiction, 508 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 2: is just science. 509 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 4: Wait a minute, there are scientists who are working on 510 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 4: cybernetic helmets and one of them, his name is Ben 511 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 4: He first name Bin, second name he He, and if 512 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 4: you google Bin He and helicopter, you will see students 513 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,360 Speaker 4: in his lab wearing a cybernetic helmet that are piloting 514 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 4: a remote control helicopter through an obstacle course. 515 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 2: He uses brain signals, So he puts this cap with 516 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 2: all of these sensors on it, and he uses signals 517 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 2: from people's brains to control how things move. 518 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 4: Professor he is not trying to develop an Iron Man suit. 519 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 4: What he's doing is trying to develop treatments for paralysis 520 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 4: and improvements in prosthetic devices. 521 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 2: So if you had were to have this attached to you, 522 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 2: you could think, I want to raise my arm and 523 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 2: be able to raise the arm. 524 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 525 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 3: That's like Professor X that's Magneto, that's all of those people. 526 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: Hey, we got to get X men. We've got to 527 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: be X men. I'm ready. What's your na be an 528 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: X man? 529 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 3: Because I'm gonna be my own villain and I'm gonna 530 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 3: have me a laugh. I'm gonna be less X men 531 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 3: and more like what was that movie aon Flux where 532 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 3: I want to be like Atomic Blonde. She had the 533 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 3: best outfits, Okay, and I want to be able to 534 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 3: have a lab on the back of a eighteen wheeler 535 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 3: and I can just travel around with my lab and 536 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 3: do science. 537 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 1: So what did you think? See? 538 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 3: So when we started this episode, we were just really 539 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,479 Speaker 3: focused on Black Panther and the science fiction and how 540 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 3: could it be real? But now my eyes are open 541 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 3: to all of these other things that are possible, and 542 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 3: this is just what we know about, right this is 543 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 3: public information for everyone, you know, like technology is moving. 544 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: So fast and everything is advanced. 545 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 3: Like I think something we talked with doctor Cacalius about 546 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 3: was like people were thinking there will be hoverboards, but 547 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 3: we got something even better an iPhone. 548 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: Okay. 549 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 3: So I mean when you start really figuring out, like 550 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 3: who's going to be leading the next direction, what's going 551 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 3: to be the next big push. I don't know what 552 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 3: it's going to be, but I am feeling really optimistic 553 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 3: that I'm going to have a hologram on the Apple 554 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 3: Watch five like ha, and that graphing is gonna save me. 555 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean when you think about graphing and 556 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 2: what it could do possibly, we're talking about like the 557 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 2: military and making like things that are stronger than kevlar, 558 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 2: so like bulletproofing, material is going to be on a 559 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 2: thou Wow in just a few years. Yeah. 560 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 3: I felt so inspired, and it made me kind of ask, 561 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 3: is this like one of those art imitates life or 562 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 3: life imitates art in this case? 563 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 2: Right, because doctor Kakali has talked a lot about the 564 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 2: science fiction, but then he also talked a lot about 565 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 2: science that is actually going on that sounds very futuristic. 566 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: So I think it can be both. 567 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 2: I think we can inspire artists that make these movies 568 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 2: to push the technology, but then we can also watch 569 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 2: the movies and be inspired to create new things in 570 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 2: the lab. 571 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 3: You need the science and you need the art, and 572 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 3: the art needs the science. Like I feel like it's 573 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 3: just like a beautiful marriage. 574 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: Right, and that's what we are. I think we are 575 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: art and science. 576 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 2: There we go and Marvel if you're listening, t T 577 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 2: needs to be the Next Door. For more on today's episode, 578 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 2: check out our cheat sheet and the show notes at 579 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 2: Dope Labs podcast dot com. So we're gonna be doing 580 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 2: an Instagram live on Thursday, April eighteenth, and we will 581 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 2: reveal the theme for our next episode, So make sure you. 582 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 3: Tune in and our phone lines are always open. 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T. 604 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: Shadia and Zakiah Wattley. 605 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 2: Okay, so when we get back, we're gonna dive into 606 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: some other Marvel characters that we have some questions about, 607 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 2: like Thor and yes, and man, what that is? A 608 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 2: fine man, let's be honest. Okay, you can bring that 609 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 2: hammer to my house.