Could Wolverine’s Claws Cut Superman? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2024
- SURPRISE BECAUSE SCIENCE CHANNEL! Subscribe now and click the shiny notifications bell so you don’t miss out on all things science and pop culture.
bit.ly/BecSciSub
It’s the ultimate showdown the unbreakable claws of Wolverine and the man of steel, Superman. Could Logan’s adamantium claws actually break through the Last Son of Krypton’s skin? Kyle cuts down the science on this week’s Because Science!
Thanks to Loot Crate for sponsoring today’s episode! Go to bitly.com/2drafc3 to learn more about Loot Crate, and enter code BECAUSESCIENCE at checkout for 10% off!
Subscribe for more Because Science: nerdi.st/subscribe
Watch the last episode: nerdi.st/2fFDvjJ
More science: nerdist.com/topic/science-tech/
Watch more Because Science: nerdi.st/BecSci
Follow Kyle Hill: / sci_phile -- Instagram: / sci_phile
Follow Us: / nerdist
Because Science every Thursday.
Learn more:
• HARDNESS V TOUGHNESS: nerdi.st/2feEAM4
• HOW DOES A KNIFE CUT: nerdi.st/2geXUwG
• HARDNESS AND TENSILE STRENGTH: nerdi.st/2fVLyct
• ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH: nerdi.st/2dnWBcO
• OBSIDIAN: nerdi.st/2eYquxh
• PUNCHING FORCE: nerdi.st/2feIGUB
• MONOMOLECULAR BLADES: nerdi.st/2eDKxWq - บันเทิง
Wolverine: cuts steel
Supermam: man of steel
Problem solved
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science
He cant only a kryptonite Sword would do it
This matchup would be comical at best. Wolverine does not possess heightened superhuman strength; he is perhaps only two or at best three times stronger than a power lifter according to his comic book feats, with enhanced agility as an additional trait. In other words, while a world-class power lifter may be able to deadlift 1000 pounds, he cannot slam dunk a basketball.
Logan, on the other hand, could likely deadlift 2000 lbs (certainly not the movie version, that's for sure), but could also jump up and stand on top of a basketball net.
Considering this, people seem to forget that adamantium is literally described as "nearly indestructible," which is a far cry from being completely indestructible.
Wolverine would still need considerable force to cut through solid steel, and in the realm of comic books, we often overlook the laws of physics with many abilities, so accuracy might be questionable at this point. However, it would also depend on the sharpness of his claws. Regardless, if they were sharpened down to a few nanometers, they would not be able to pierce Superman's skin, which is considerably stronger and harder than adamantium.
1:16 give this man an oscar
Better: a MythBusters show
is it bad this guy is better than any teacher I've ever met
This guy gets paid if you get excited and want to watch more - teachers are not paid more if you learn more or want to listen to them more.
Yes but we learn more whit this guy then whit our teachers
Jorge Alejandro Granadillo True!
I whish some teachers were like him
NO. ITS TRUE.
Kal El: "What kind of monster are you?"
Wolverine: "The Wolverine."
The honey badgers are giggling.
Hey everyone. Just wanted to clarify that I (embarrassingly) was operating under a misconception about FTL communication using quantum entanglement. I was implying that if you had a complete mastery over QM maybe you could do something like Star Trek or Mass Effect, but because this involves randomness and probability it is (as far as we know) impossible to send
information as I described. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out and helped me learn! -- KH
Not to mention, how would you ever receive the message? As soon as you checked the entangled particle(s), you would cause their mates to take on the properties of the particles you just checked, destroying the entanglement, or at least losing it in a field of noise. Yes?
victor, yes they could
Vitor, easily.
Just wanted to comment this "mistake", it really is only so long one as our understanding of the matter doesn't improve that far that we could overcome the limit of the speed of light.
Hey, thanks! It is awesome when someone is nice enough to accept his/her mistakes. Greetings from Brazil! (I love this show!...)
Kyle, now that you mentioned Superman, can you make a Because Science about the super hearing and how it is super ridiculous? thanks!
Oh you mean how he heard that high-frequency signal from over a hundred million light years away in the vaccume of space...haha yeah good times
Diego Pachón always thought it's some kind of psionic hearing rather than hearing through his ears.
not just the vacuum of space, he heard it faster than anything can actually travel unless quantum entanglement works with living being entangled to a signal? which I doubt
It's also totally ridiculous how superman supposedly can smell odours from across the planet
If Superman can smell things across the planet that means he must know I had Mexican last night, that poor Alien I hope he doesn't have super smell
hey did u know that krypyonite can be liquidized wolverine can coat the liquid on his claws
Zafar Habib yup
Zafar Habib I was thinking the same thing. XD
Well, technichly krypton is a gass, so yes, but it would have to be very very cold
Krypton (real) has nothing to do with Kryptonite (fictional)
Why would he do that if the claws would kill superman anyway why add kryptonite
I love your videos they're addicting and i cant stop watching, i hope this channel lives on forever.
But can his claws cut through a nokia?🤔🤔
maybe but it would just keep working
Gimberg Preval it would regrow 2 more Nokia's!
Please, no more nokias, we have them at a controlled number already
Well I once fought against a Hydra, it was horrible, worst part was it was made up of Nokia 3310, Nokia 3320, Nokia 3410 and Nokia 3420. It lunged one of it's heads towards me, making a loud ringing noise as it roared towards me, E¹-D¹-E-F#-C#¹-B-D-E-B-A-C#-E-A. It was terrifying. My trustworthy steed died, with one swipe the Nokia Hydra made my iHorse's battery die. The only weakness of that Hydra was that each time I cut off one of it's head, 2 new heads sprouted out from the neck, but thankfully the weak point is that each time the new heads were of newer and newer models. After a while it's battery died out, and I barely survived, my iBlade was heavily damaged. and my iKnight armor was in shambles and I lost both legs and an arm, 4 teeth, and got 6 broken ribs and a broken collar bone.
@The Major +1 for your efforts. you did your best.
For those arguing that I didn't take into account Superman's skin strength and force field:
1. Force fields aren't a thing, so I didn't want to just make a ton of assumptions.
2. Nanoblades have been shown to cut powerful versions of Superman: i128.photobucket.com/albums/p171/methosivanhoe/kc-137.jpg Even though Wolverine's claws aren't "magical," I think the claws being able to cut Supes is a good compromise between the science and the comics based on panels like these and what I said in the video! -- KH
There are only 3 constants that come into play when it comes to damaging Superman:
1: Kryptonite
2: Magic
3: Other 'super' beings
Since Wolverine is none of those things, I still can't see Wolverine hurting Superman, especially since we're ignoring Superman's speed in this scenario, in which case, Wolverine would never be able to land a hit in the first place.
the video is not about wolverine cutting superman with his claws, it's about if the claws are capable of cutting superman.
Nerdist sure force fields as we know them in fiction aren't a thing but they are an extension of the concept of magnetic fields are they not? Magnetic fields exist and can apply a force. The earth, the magnet on your fridge, fields being used to steer protons in colliders.
Some scifi writes force fields as just high energy oscillating fields that resist energy weapons and physical weapons. Stargate for instance. Usually the downside of these fields is the required energy to maintain resistance to a threat or finding the fields oscillation frequency and penetrating that by slipping through the periods where the field is not present.
Doesn't Superman have a bioelectric field now? I'm not well versed in comics but I remember seeing that one DC animated movie where they talk about his bioelectric field and powers stemming from it. If they wrote it in such a way could wolverine penetrate that field? I'm assuming they'd have to write that superman can make his field generate that much force to resist that sort of pressure from wolverine?
His bioelectric field protected him from solar winds or something in the movie would that not lend credence to it being able to stop wolverines claws?
The magic nanoblade here is orders of magnitudes sharper than obsidian and superman did that to himself, he could have been applying a trillion times more force than wolverine could attack with for all we know.
There are no such thing as force fields. There are field propagation of the four fundamental forces, nothing more nothing less. Electrical currents such as magnetic fields can't do shit against physical objects moving unless the atoms of that object are 10% or more aligned in the same direction.
And if the magnetic field was so strong that it didn't allow metals to pass through it and repulsed everything, then anything in that field living or dead would have each and every atom forcefully aligned in the same direction, instantly turning anything into plasma. Just due to the amount of energy needed.
Thanks for the great work you do in keep science fun.
Keep up the good work.
I just cant stop watching your because science videos...you get answer to all my questions!! :D
theoretically,wolverine could cut through Superman's skin. The problem is that his claws would never actually reach his skin. Superman has an invulnerable aura around his body that is unbreakable against anything that isn't kryptonian so the claws would skid off without doing any damage
+Mr. Papabear
That's easy. It stops moving, or the the thing it hit starts moving. The same thing happens if you hit a relatively sturdy object with another relatively sturdy object. If one can't break through the other, then the moving objects stops moving, or the stationary object starts moving.
Also, Superman is vulnerable against magic. You could cut him with an enchanted butter knife.
"A compromise."
Tom Leonard "skyrim flashbacks"
popeye697
Tell that to Thor who in a crossover bloodied up superman.
Can Wolverine cut steel? Yes
Is Superman the man of steel? Yes
Therefore he can cut superman
Damn this video could have been MUCH shorter. -- KH
Nerdist lol
Nerdist Guess its time to hire me
You have cut right to the heart of the matter.
Damn conclusion... 😂😂
Would you make a video theorizing the density of Adamantium? I made my own estimations, and my result was about 18 to 19 grs/ml. I used Wolverine's weight, average skeleton weight and bone density to get a accurate volume (and yes, I substracted the volume of the marrow inside the bones)
That wolverine/statue of liberty clip always bothered me too 😂😂😂😂
He could cut Superman if the writers decided he could.
enough everyone, we found the right answer
way to kill the mood
Dead on. That's also why Sci-Fi space travel moves at the speed of plot.
slashandbones13 someone had to say it
L
What if superman's secret to strong skin is by having unbreakable molecular bonds? Then the claws would just bounce off like a lead pipe.
Alright, but I'd have to make so many more assumptions that I don't think we could come to any conclusion. -- KH
+nerdist many people have pointed out ka'el's force aura that repels all non kryptonian matter. I guess we have to drop a few assumptions when it comes to superman.
And how do we know that Superman is even made out of molecules and baryons in the first place? As opposed to some form of exotic matter related to Kryptonite.
But superman has bled many times, therefore he doesn't have unbreakable molecular bonds.
When weakened or fighting a "force" similar to his home.
THANK YOU for mentioning quantum entanglement as a means of communication at the end! I have long been saying that quantum entanglement is the key for communication at extreme distances, where even the speed of light becomes “slow” for communication purposes.
Knives sure are CUTTING-EDGE technology when you think about it.
this pun is so lame, its already almost good again
hi
Starting with this video, each week after an episode drops here you can head over to my Instagram (instagram.com/sci_Phile/) for extra rants, thoughts, and mini episodes! -- KH
Huge nerdist fan
hey, just to say, quantum entanglement is still limited to the speed of light. its not insta msg
You're right, I had a slight misconception here. Collapsing the wave function does happen more or less instantaneously, but because the measurement of the first particle is probabilistic, there is no real way to send information. Sorry for the confusion. -- KH
Nerdist how does the flash run down the stairs while he's running super fast?
its Gucci KH. I myself was trying to develop a communicator based on QI but damn physics telling me what to do.
OK, but at what point of injecting the metal in liquid form would you sharpen it to that extreme? And if they're indestructible they could not be sharpened once solid.
I know, that's why I was talking about what nerds would accept Stryker-wise. -- KH
It is said in the films once is cooled down, there is no coming back.
Well originally Wolverine didn't have claws, bone or otherwise, before stryker put the adamantium on his skeleton, and stryker put the claws into his forearms so stryker could have made the adamantium blades that sharp pretty easily before putting them into wolverine. And the only things that have ever resisted his claws cutting force in the comics has been Cap's shield (also adamantium) and Mjolnir (made of an asguardian/dwarven metal similar to adamantium and enchanted by Odin, who scientifically speaking would be considered a reality warper)
scientifically, reality warping does not exist.
Cap's shield is vibranium not adamantium... and I alway wandered.... if Cap's shield can disperse de force of any hit perfectly... wouldn't a hit from the shild be like nothing ?
But that's not how superman's durability works... his durability isn't a function of material toughness but of a protective forcefield around his body powered by the solar energy he absorbed... so Wolverine could not generate the force needed to get through Superman's energy shield to get to his skin... (which he could definitely cut if he could get to it)
The correct assessment.
So wait, does that mean you could kill him if you teleported a rock inside his body? Does that mean night crawler might be able to kill superman?
Probably not, as Nightcrawler can't usually willingly teleport himself into something solid; the molecules of his body become entangled with whatever he intersects with (which is strange, considering that his powers work by shunting him through a wormhole and he displaces air fine.) Kitty Pryde, on the other hand, almost certainly could phase a pipe through his skull and leave it there, if she could get him to sit still long enough. But as long as his super speed is still a factor I'd wager that even if she got the pipe in, Supes could probably get away faster than she could let go to unphase it. Reacting faster than most humans can think is a perk.
ah the classic superman niche
I think he could pass thru the protective feild cuz the suns rays that form this shield are still made of molecules right? And the blades can cut or pass thru molecules. So his fist would be stopped but the blades should pass thru.
I've been binging on this for a few days (thank you so much for existing btw), and I've noticed that the longer your hair gets, the tighter your shirts get and the more high energy you get. 😉❤️
Regarding the Statue of Liberty scene: Why hasn't anyone pointed out the even more obvious? He has three razor-sharp claw blades. All three dig into the statue. It only falls off at the furthest point afterwards, however, and not in three pieces.
No it doesn't, watch it again.
*edit* Though it's in four pieces. One section between each blade and the larger upper section.
Well Wolverine did stab the Hulk with his claws in Hulk vs Wolverine and people often compare Hulk and Superman since they are two of the most powerful beings in their respective universes.
So I guess I would have to agree that Wolverine could cut Superman.
Marth superman is far more stronger than hulk
ROCKY 362 nah hulk has world breaker strength
Big Ben superman prime . I know its a worthless debate we can go years on this debate and it has no end.
Hulk wins because he doesn't wear underwear on top of his pants.
sups beat hulk already
UNEXPECTED KATANA!
3:36
Kyle: "This is Obsidian"
Minecrafters: "Are you really in charge here?"
Look, It's great that you try to quantify Superman with science. But when the guy can hear a sound in the vacuum of space from 25 light years away AND THEN fly to the source of that sound in just a little over 10 MINUTES (and that might even be lowballing that feat), it is very clear evidence that you can't.
Zarion Wildclaw 👏👏👏 you win sir
it's just a theory chill
That's why superman is the most boring superhero ever.
Flash would be back in 0.0000000001 seconds.
ReaLZiee I am calm, and I get that it is the theory. I'm just stating the problem with theories like this.
Thor talking about adamantium claws vs superman skin
Confusing, right? -- KH
Kyle,
A few questions:
1. Would the cities from the Bioshock series, Rapture and New Columbia, be possible to build?
2. What would be required to make them work?
3. Is the concept of plasmids and vigor from the series something that could potentially be a real thing to any degree?
If you see this and answer it, thank you so much! I haven't had this much fun learning in a very long time. I feel like I would have taken math way more seriously if my teachers had been able to show application to fun things like this.
I agree with his ending statement about the crown clip, it's a nice scene for movie purposes but the second you start thinking about it it's ruined beyond hell :x
Don't forget about Clark's bioelectric aura which also protects him from attacks
Kal El you just gave away your identity.
technically, it is said in several occrence of superman that he have a thin force field around himself (explaning why his costume is so resillient). I don't know if it is boelectric, but that would explain why his costume is torn apart in hand fight sometimes. But let's get to the idea that it is bioelectric (Supereel powaaaaa)
We've seen that Wolverine adamantium is subjet to electromagetism (Magneto in da place, bitch!), so his claws wouldnt even make it to the body of Kal-el in the first place, Logan not being strong enough to force through the fiel by pure strengh.
Kal El that's only the newer versions of superman. At his peak power in the '60's he had no aura, he was impervious to any attack, and could dive through the heart of suns (albeit not red giants) His clothes were indestructible because they changed like he did when he came to Earth. Somehow. And it doesn't matter if Wolverine can cut through him or not, Logan's strength and speed are far inferior and he couldn't even get close to Superman to try.
just said that.. wait. lol
his cloth came with him ? Full adult cloth came with a baby ? And the fact they absolutely don't look like Jor-El or Lara-El cloth is normal ? seriously ?
I mean, if Doomsday's rock hand can pierce Superman, I'm sure Wolverine's claw can.
Da Wreckor Wasn't that only because he was exposed to kryptonite, so his cells weakened?
Da Wreckor that was because of kryptonite
Doomsday has indestructable bone and punches with above planetary lvl strenght. Wolverine isnt even close
Also superman must be ixtremly drained to get wounds. If he is full of energy those bones wouldnt cut him just like in comics
Alexander Kieler wouldnt it be enough to lace his claws with Kryptonite to damage Sups?
Mate, just came back from work and ive been watching you for an hour.
You produce some brilliant content. Love how easily you write mirrored its impressive
Keep up the good work champ.
I know this comment is 4 years old but I'm hoping you learned the video is flipped horizontally, and he's writing normally with his right hand.
This is like my favorite segment on all of youtube...
I thought superman got his invulnerability from an energy aura, so wolverine would have to be able to cut through a forcefield
Nah, just super strong outsides, as in his eyes deflect bullets
Josiah Matthews yup
thx for the save
Erudalty VIden gotchu
Josiah Matthews wolverine cut through forcefield many times. never once stopped him
How powerful is Jimmy Neutron? Please do this one, I really want to know :)
And Kyle, if you do actually do this, don't say Jimmy's IQ is 210, because the person who said that was Beautiful Gorgeous and she, at the time, knew absolutely nothing about Jimmy except for what he had told her, and it's never been explicitly stated. Jimmy himself did say his IQ was "literally off the charts" and he has a machine that measures IQ in 3 digits, so his IQ has to be at least 1,000 if that's the chart he meant. BUT PLEASE DO IT.
Sensei Jack limitless
See the thing is that IQ's over ~170 aren't possible unless you are adjusting the score for age. So he gets a super high score, but it's on a child scale and if he were taking a adult test he wouldn't get higher than 170.
The thing is you really can't get that high on a IQ test, at best you can get every question right, which only gets you up to ~170.
The point I want to stress, is that the IQ scale just doesn't work for individuals too much smarter than the range of normal human intelligence.
Valcor Wabajak I've already taken that into account, but the thing about an IQ test is this:
People take it and the highest they can get is a 170.
What about the people who made the formulas? Let's say there was one person in the world who had invented every single formula and every language, grammar rule, etc. Would he still be at 170, making him just as smart as the people who learned the things he invented/discovered or would he be smarter? Plus it's a TV show where they tried to rationalize breathing in space, so anything can happen, and very easily with IQs. The IQ test itself may not list you higher than another individual, but that doesn't mean you aren't any smarter. There really is no "limit" to IQs, especially in Jimmy Neutron where Sheen's estimated top IQ in one episode was literally infinity.
Sensei Jack My point is just that the IQ test isn't really useful for measuring superhuman levels of intellect.
Even abstracting it; the IQ test works off percentiles, however if you are the smartest human alive, no IQ test could measure extra intelligence beyond that.
The IQ test is fundamentally a comparative metric, not a measure of absolute intelligence.
People using IQ in scenarios where you are dealing with entities smarter than any human, really irks me because _that's not how it works_.
Valcor Wabajak Oh I see what you mean, I misunderstood what your point was, but (I could be misunderstanding again) Jimmy made a machine that measured his IQ above 170, and for the sake of argument I'm going to assume it works, because he's made much more ridiculous things.
dude I watch so many types of these vids everyday from different people and yours are one of the greats 👍
best episode yet, the mention of knapping obsidian for the win
Excellent video! In order for this idea to work, we have to imagine that wolverines claws are molecules' thick; which his claws totally are! Super strong and extremely sharpened metal, makes wolverines the ultimate super weapon. He was developed to take on impossible tasks, which is why Department H send him to take down the hulk during his earlier missions. He was sent to take down the Hulk! The Hulk! This helps to further prove the amount of confidence that can be placed on The Wolverine!
His claws also sharpen themselves against his knuckles every single instance they extend which also keeps their sharpness maintained and increasing due to unbreakability.
considering that superman has survivied in places were cells would never be able to survive, its pretty safe to assume that his skin is above science
NOTHING IS ABOVE SCIENCE DALTON -- KH
*Nothing is above science, because science, Dalton
The blades wouldn't necessarily have to destroy cells in their path, just separate them.
No wonder even at Hulk's Rage Wolvie can cut through his very strong muscle. Sups has an bio-electric aura powered by the sun so yeah Wolvie can cut through Sups skin if he's drained enough bio-electric aura like Doomsday did. Oh and also if Doomsday can adapt to being cut by Adamantium later on he cannot be cut anymore so Doomsday wins.
I don't know about that last part
There should be a super hero called “Reality man” who has logic and reality powers
2:50 Please continue, i wanna hear this.
Kyle could do really good in the mirror dimension reading those flipped words.
Highly doubt that Logan's claws could cut in between sup's cells because the cells would not budge and it would not matter how hard logan slashed at him, but it really depends on what version of Superman we're talking about.. Perhaps if Logan was holding a shard of kryptonite in the palm of the cutting hand superman could get cut
With Kryptonite, You could cut superman with a pocket knife
His cells can be cut though the thing that protects superman is a combination of his molecular density and a bioelectric aura if Wolverine was able to apply enough force he could rip Superman to pieces.
But superman was killed by doomsday from being brutally punched to death.
GengarTV the argument here is that adamantium is harder than supermans skin. Thus all you need is sharpness and force and wolverine wins. Of course superman is fast enough to avoid being cut at all but if he was cocky and didn't expect the blade to hurt him it would surprise him for sure
yeah but that was a young sup's early in you his carear befor he new how his powers worked and the sourse of his powers plus he faught doomsday a 1000year IMORTAL killing machine that can adapt to his openents with poisen exending spikes that can cut superman and the poisen can hult a healing factor
Unexpected Katana replaces Surprise Lightsaber. I love it.😂😂😂
I just love the way you (dis)agree with the Stan Lee; the one who wins is the one who you script to win.
Idk man supermans skin is strong enough to survive the center of the sun where nuclear fission happens I just can't see him being able to be sliced and diced by wolverines claws even if they were razor sharp
Jay Bisky yeah but Kal-El is powered by the sun's so that's kind of hand waivable not really a milestone when you're a solar battery
Midnightv but still his cells need to have the tensile strength in order to molecularly stay together through that kind of environment do u believe that wolverines claws could separate his super cells? Superman has survived miles lazers kryptonite darkseids omega beams idk man I'm just skeptical
Jay Bisky But you're fine with a flying alien fighting an immortal metal boned mutant lol
EP3mentalist but their not immortal metals. they have been cut threw. a metal can only hold up to so much. superman's skin is past measurable densities. in fact at his point it is unmeasurable. superman would just be hit by wolverine and wolverines claws would bend or break under the pressure
*fusion not fission
But we don't know what Superman is made of. Science doesn't really apply to him.
StupifiedRex it's comics, it shouldn't.
We know that he has bled before which means he's not completely invulnerable. While we don't have exact data I'd argue his skin is probably on par with some of the strongest materials in the universe, but that'd still mean it can be broken by one of the other strongest materials.
wishbone346 He held a black hole in his hand.
I doubt it.
StupifiedRex There's a difference there. I mean that difference makes no god damn sense because a black hole should just tear literally any matter apart, but a blade that cuts a molecular level is causing damage far different than a black hole would. You can't compare the two. It's like how some material can withstand a nuclear explosion but can still be cut by other more conventional means.
wishbone346 I do have to agree. although theoretically if we could create something denser than a black hole. such as superman's skin. then nothing could cut down to that molecular level. because as we know it, black holes are the densest thing known to man. and the strongest theoretical metal is amazonium. worn by diana. aka wonder women. so I would have to say that as long as there is a sun. there is a superman. so wolverines claws would prove to be nothing to the son of krypton
Great video. 2 things. 1) You say that given ''enough pressure '' wolverine's claws can cut through anything, but Wolverine only has so much pressure he can apply. He isn't super strong. 2) An idea for another video: If we were to take someone with an increased healing factor and cut them up they would grow back to normal given enough time (although not much time would be needed depending on the individual). What would happen though, if we were to cut them up, or maybe just take a he part of their body away and restrict their space (i.e. putting them in concrete or a very small confined space)? Without sufficient space what would happen? Which would win out, the concrete or Wolverine's healing factor?
Hey speaking of Solar Energy, can you do a really important calculation for me. In the Digimon franchise, a being called WarGreymon has an attack called "Terra Force" and what its descriptions said was "Takes all of the energy within the atmosphere and concentrates it into one spot, then fires it as an extremely dense, high-temperature energy shot."
How much energy would that require to make the Terra Force attack?
The answer is yes and no. The problem is how inconsistent Wolverines cutting ability is. There are instances where Thor took a full force swipe across the face and wound up with minor paper cuts. Then there was a time he lost a whole arm due to Wolverine's claws.
Superman and Thor are comparable in durability feats.
NOTHING CUTS SUPES FAN ARMOR!!! Its a million times stronger that plot-armor, the second toughest kind of armor in existance!!!
That's the Bat armor actually, the strongest form of PIS.
He's not talking about armor, just his skin dude
Chad Benjamin what is PIS?
Random Gamer Plot Induced Stupidity
Chad Benjamin lol okay thats hilarious for a while i was going to look into it 😂
I never understand what he's saying when talking about the science but I just love the videos
Hey, I love so much this videos, and I have one good question for one: How Godzilla atomic breath works? I know is hard, but would be awesome to a video
Technically wonder woman's sword is the sharpest thing ever
hawkeye's bow is the strongest weapon in the universe
No you have it all wrong the sharpest thing is safety siccers
Didnt ask
Clorox Bleach ok you need black jesus
@@linleybaruch8368 Nice one, and Hulk's pants is the strongest armor
So could Wolvie cut threw Luke Cage's unbreakable skin?
Also, more Star Trek science, please. :-)
I think Luke Cage's skin would definitely get snikt-ed -- KH
they actually used adamantium in the comics to perform surgery on luke once, iirc
Luke's not impenetrable. He got shot.
People forget that Superman has Luke Cage's power. He's not just strong; another one of his powers is super-invulnerability, exactly like Cage.
Adamantium is one of the few metals that can cut Luke Cage.
He got shot by some Vibranium I believe in the series. I think it vibrated it's way into him, and his healing was forcing the metal deeper inside him.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The crown applies a counter-force against Logan's claws from the center of the diadem out towards the point of entry, but this is oblique to Logan's actual trajectory, which results in a shift in the direction of his velocity. This process is continuous over time such that it results in a centripetal deceleration.
Question: Rayleigh scattering is the process where small particles will scatter certain wavelengths of light. If blue light is 450nm wavelength, then particles under 4.5 nm will scatter blue light. Does a 3-4 nm cutting edge also scatter blue light? Or does it need to be particles which are scattered and not along a cutting edge?
but it is just a theory a science theory
Stop it. -- KH
Nerdist that's hilarious I was just watching one of his videos
Aaaaaand cut... get it? cuz the.. wolverine.. and the.. ill be over here.
AAAAAAND CUT (Superman)
OHHH no it isn't
Remember when Superman was shot in the eye and not only the bullet didn't do anything but it was crushed without leaving a mark? I believe that if his eye can withstand that his skin (which can also withstand air atoms coming onto it with speed greater than the speed of sound) can withstqnd those blades...
& yet I’ve seen Wolverine slice 50 cal bullets & deflect bullets as well as block plasma blast with those claws.
The bullets aren't sharp. They are applying their force to a MASSIVELY larger surface area. They would need exponentially larger amounts of force to equal the same amount of pressure as his blades
what you talked about at the end Quantum entanglement. ive told so many people that would work your the first person ive seen to agree with me
I love how you close out the vid BECAUSE SCIENCE
>not taking supermans bio-electric field into account
wew lad
He's been cut though that before. Well, unless it didn't exist at the time.
don't forget his dense molecular structure...... you know. what makes up his body and all.... so many things skipped because.... science
And with this bio-electrik aura he can move object without breacking them (like f*** boat and plane) and literally bend time and space to fly and moving faster than the speed of light ....
The video wasn't titled "Could Wolverine's claws cut through Superman's bio bullshit", it was "Could it cut through his *skin*"
Tyrant Lizard King
the question still remains, could wolverine's claws cut superman??? with his bio-electric field. most likely no, and considering superman has a super dense molecular structure.... even if the field wasn't a factor, it's VERY VERY UNLIKELY wolverine could do more than scratch him..... hell doomsday didn't have a bio aura, and he could tank pretty much anything, and superman's skin is almost as tough.... so i'd say, no, wolverine's claws can't cut him
how the fuck superman shave if he is the man of steel? can u do a video on that?
arman sayeed he barrows logan.
Technically he can use his fingernails to scrape his stubble off. On the other hand, he has to bite his fingernails (bad habit) or scrape his fingernails shorter with his own fingernails.
He reflects his heat vision off of a mirror at an angle and uses that to shave.
Actually, no less that Neil DeGrass Tyson answered that one. Sandpaper can be used to rub away steel, even though sand is technically softer. Water can be used to cut through steel. It's all about abrasion, rather than cutting.
Heat vision.
Also, steel rusts.
hi nerdist! yeah I've been watching a few of ur videos and I think u guys are doing great work. I have a question that I'd like u to answer? do u think the murasama blade could cut kryptonian skin?
A materials strength is based on how much energy it takes to break the bonds between the atoms (or, more usually in metals, the grain structure of the metal, which breaks first). So if the blade is thin enough that it doesn't matter how strong those bonds are, then it isn't breaking them, just passing through them, therefore not cutting.
how does the flash see when he's running?
How Quicksilver listen Sweet Dreams while he is running?rsrsrs
Karam Sayer because his senses are enhanced by speed to
It's the same answer you will get concerning any question about Flash: The Speed Force. It not only allows him to move at superluminal velocity, but it protects him from all the negative effects that would have.
+Aj Forte thats so dumb but its comics so it isnt
"What do I see when I run across the country Superman? *Everything* and *Everyone*."
"I can think at the speed of *Light*"
As said by the Flash himself, he can also perceive Attoseconds so yeah.
... Did someone say Dragon Glass?
No sir. Nobody did.
Except GOT season 8.
Awesome videos! One of my favorites! But you said Wolverines claws being the sharpest, but in another video you explained why wonder woman sword was the sharpest due t splitting atoms I believe. Lol
great episode
But could he cut Batman?
harry scott NO.
harry scott yes...
Batmans human
harry scott easily. decapitate him with ease. I know your joking but man that's still silly tbh
Yes, but for some nerd reason no. -- KH
Not if Batman was prepared
Does anyone notice that he is writing backwards
Pinda Clan he's not. He's writing on glass and the image is inverted.
He's not. The video is mirrored.
We could ask... But the lack of ease with which he writes makes me think that he's writing backwards and they're not flopping the video. I'm not sure why, since mirroring video frames is something every video editor ever can do.
Tony Hammitt
They're definitely mirroring it. It's not quite as obvious here but there's plenty of videos where he wears shirts with pockets that are changing sides.
hi Kyle, love this episode but quick question thought;
if obsidian blades are 3 nanometers thick, than how thick are the blades on steel scalps, military knives and sword (especially the Katana)?
Love that pen you got there!!
What would happen if Superman punch Logan. Because of Logans healing, adamantine bones and because of superman super strength.
Possibly cause a black hole.
Henry Smith My bet's on, his flesh goes splat everywhere, but his skeleton flies off planet orbit.
Well since Hulk has both bent and torn adamantium I imagine if he hit hard enough he would destroy the adamantium. Or at least bend the shit out of. at which point logan would regenerate into a mangled mess.
Cricket101382 Hulk can bend Secondary Adamantium, not True Adamantium like what is present in Wolverine. And if Superman punched Wolverine, his skeleton would survive and he would heal.
If Superman punched Wolverine upwards... into the Sun. Then he would kill him....? Does Wolverine survive the Sun?
This makes sense...but will I accept it? Absolutely not.
Very scientific of you. -- KH
***** You know whats not very scientific? Kyles illustrious mane. It disobeys the laws of physics. No ones hair is that bouncy and voluminous!!!! NO ONES!!!!
Hi Kyle. These sections are always educational and I like this one. There is a nerdy thing that sort of stands in the way of your analysis from a fictional perspective though.
Superman's toughness is not a physical property of his skin or flesh. A lot of Superman's powers are explained by the idea that he generates a powerful bio-kinetic field in most situations. This explains how Kryptonians can carry and even catch falling objects much larger than himselves without them falling apart, their flight and biologically impossible speed and strength and their vulnerability to red sunlight and kryptonite. If Kryptonian skin were simply dense and tough, they could never be made instantly vulnerable by those kinds of radiation, not without their skin literally melting off. Kryptonians project a biological force field under yellow sunlight, and hurting them requires some means to disrupt that field or deplete it somehow. I'm not sure how this is consistent with Superman simply getting overpowered by physical force, but I think Superman is literally invulnerable to conventional edged weapons under most circumstances. So unless Wolverine's claws have a specific interaction with psychokinetic fields I'm not aware of, they wouldn't hurt Supes.
Lol, re: Hugh Jackman, that reminds me of the joke from Modern Family's Australia episode. 🤣
If Wolverine could cut Superman with his claws, then Captain America could just outright destroy Superman with his Vibranium shield.
How come?
Cause of the shields properties. It's made from a combo nation of both Adamantium & Vibranium.
if he could hit him, he might be able to daze him...but assuming a shield doesn't have a blade, I doubt it could do much more. On the other hand, it might allow capt to block a hit from the man of steal (not full force, ie sped up around the world, mind you)
FlyingShazbot Oh please, superman wouldn't be hit by wolverine or captain america. They're snails to him.
Wolverines ability to cut Superman has nothing to do with the materials it's made from, it's completely because of his claws's sharpness. Considering how Captain American has hit many things and people with his shield and haven't sliced all of them in half I highly doubt it has any sort of sharp blade, not to mention that sharp.
The editing in these videos are getting
Out of hand
Agreed!
Kenneth Wong YEAAAAAAAAAAH
*Shoots self
Well, they're good, but did you notice, when he zoomed on Katana, he didn't enhance?!?!
They have a long way to go.
sharp
Boo. Also, my editor Charles is flippin' great, so I keep challenging him. -- KH
I love to see Kyle explain the science of how Tony Stark's Arc Reactor could work. Please do it, guys!
coolest outro youve done 😂
Quantum entanglement will resolve a very serious modern problem: lag.
TurdFurgeson571 this is the single most usable comment on this video. while people argue about fictituos things, you sir are a hero
*I can't see how any can take this video seriously.*
Thanks for watching. -- KH
Step Dad that's not the point. Yes the superhero stuff is just for fun and using your imagination. it's about the science of it, and the science of it is still applicable in real life application.
Chris Halligan *My problem is that they clearly know nothing about how Superman's body works.*
Step Dad Okay soooo how does his body work then?
Chris Halligan *First of all, his body has an aura that would stop his claws from even connecting to his skin. Secondly, saying Wolverine's claws can stab Superman is like saying obsidian can stab Superman, it's absurd. Lastly, Batman has stated that the only thing that can stab Clark is a kryptonite knife. His cells are to strong for anything to penetrate, hence why he's virtually indestructible.*
Gurren Lagann science! That final battle explained would be awesome!
I enjoy the videos you make. I think you could make some good one from borderlands 2. the weapons, shields, characters special skills, animal, ect. Have you played borderlands 2? What do you think?
what would happen if super man punched captian americas shield as hard as he can?
SMOKEY TARANTINO The shield would break
First the shield breaks and so does the planet afterwards.
and so does superman cause the shiled whould first direct the force back and then break cause it couldnt return to it's original shape anymore
All the new york will destroy by the force of the punch and super man needs a doctor 😂😂😂😂
Monika Adhikari pop
You and Matpat should collab.
I'm sure MP is too busy but I finally met Vsauce Jake in person last weekend! Would love to work with that dude. -- KH
he even cuts through that concrete/steel or whatever wall when he escapes after he gets the metal in him
there is a scene in comics where wolverine says vibranium is the only thing adamantium can cut through or some thing like that it happens in an ultimate spiderman episode
So add obsidian knives to superman's weaknesses?
Can't, obsidian isn't the second hardest thing on earth...... Although it is in minecraft. In fact, on earth, obsidian is very brittle.
The hardests thing are usually the most brittle.
Sorry, my English isn't good. I mean fragile.
Lo Wai Ip
Exactly, the hardest things are often the most fragile. If you throw a diamond (the hardest natural material known to humans) at the ground, it will break into a million pieces.
Hard materials are very weak to impact, they are only good when you need something that can't be cut, scratched or easily deformed.
This is with the assumption of you are hitting the scatter point, some ending of its molecular structure. Otherwise, it is very difficult to break a diamond. On the top of that, some of the material that are among the hardest are metals. They have relatively strong tensile strength allowing some degree of deformation. Tough, I just found out that obsidian actually is as hard or possibly harder than glasses as they hold the blade better, which mean it is not that fragile as I am thinking of.
Comic books and science. There's a joke there somewhere.
haha, right?? I was just thinking the same thing... but, this 'show' is pretty cool though.
because nerds and geeks enjoy talking about objectify pointless things in abused details
not just any joke though.. an ULTRA-JOKE! ... written in big red block letters over and exploding speech bubble
I love your profile pic. So happy to see another Darker than Black fan. I used to have the exact pic.
slashandbones13 Lame.
the end of this is like saying hey if you punched that wall could you break it well with enough force you could
I'm convinced, but would still like to know more. How deeply would Wolverine's claws be able to cut into Superman's body.
I've sometimes used razor blades in sculpting clay. The blade will easily cut through the clay, but the deeper it goes, the more pressure I have to exert. I suspect this is because of the friction the clay causes on the sides of the blade, which builds up surprisingly fast.
So, assuming Wolverine's claws will cut Superman, do they make kitten scratches? Do they make shallow cuts? Deep cuts? Lop of limbs?
i wish my girlfriends hair was as nice as kyles hahahahahahhahhhahah
He can dip his claws in liquid green kryptonite. Then he will be able to cut superman.
Jorge Melero thank you the first logical explanation I've seen!
Jorge Melero Actually no.. he cant.. the liquid kryptonite would not stick to it.. like blood.. it cant stick to the claw.
Roi Gipot how bout a powdered kryptonite..
@@roigipot8120 but what if they freeze on the claws or the powdered version of it on the claws. He could cut superman and the kryptonite could go into the cuts and weaken him,and if it doseint get cleaned it might kill him.
I got a question. If we had a blade just as precise and thin as Wolverine's claws, but made out of a non-indestructible steel, would you be able to cut through gun barrels and humvees, but only for one or two strikes?
You should do an episode on how he did the thing with the Statue of Liberty