An idea for a future episode: Since Superman is a living solar battery (assuming that his body stores the energy with 100% efficiency), how powerful would his explosion attack "Solar Flare", where he releases all his stored energy be?
Could you do an episode on the biology of altered carbon. I haven't seen the show but the premise seems awesome and I know you'd do an amazing job at it as always. Keep up the awesome work.
The question of why the Hulk does not wear glasses, reminded me of a case that a patient had multiple personalities; one of these many personalities was blind, the curious thing is that the other personalities were not, they took an examination and the result was unexpected; when the blind personality was in control of consciousness the part of the brain responsible for the vision was inactive, and when another personality assumed the place of the blind personality, the patient could see normally. really a strange and unexplained situation, but I think this happens to the Hulk since there are two personalities trying to domain the same mind
Also shockwaves can propegate faster than the speed of sound that's what makes high explosives high explosives as differentiated from things like black powder
@@EwWhoIsTHAT no because of the loss of heat to the air. Now if you could perfectly insulate the chicken and yourself while performing the massage, then we are cooking with -gas!- massage?
Exactly. In a newtonian world the speed would indeed have to be ftl but then the speed of light is nothing special. But with special relativity, you can reach whatever amount of energy you wish just by getting closer and closer to c. Until your fist collapses into a black hole. But the squid thing already tried the black hole in Saitama and it didn't work, so I guess opm can pull his first out of an event horizon.
Yeah, an object of any mass traveling arbitrarily close to the speed of light can have arbitrarily high energy because bringing anything with mass to the speed of light would require infinite energy.
Thanks for the inclusion Kyle. I knew it is impossible, of course, it was just fun to think about. I feel proud to have my first comment ever in Footnotes
@@DrewLSsix Just replying to Kyle's comment of having that much Kinetic energy will require FTL punch speed. It does not. Approaching the speed of light will just increase his punch's mass and thus it doesn't need to go FTL to reach that kind of kinetic energy. I have no idea why I need to apply relativity to other parts in this particular comment. If you want to say he cannot punch his hand at that kind of speed or he doesn't have the energy to begin with, or anything about his body cannot sustain that kind of speed, it is not a matter of relativity, but like Kyle said, Satire.
As velocity tends towards _c_ mass tends towards infinity and so does the amount of energy required to change the velocity any further. Saitama would have to be infinitely strong to swing his fist at light speed, and he'd have one hell of a time stopping it thereafter!
@@MazokuJun The point is that the energy you need to put in to accelerate a mass increases by the square of that mass, thus exponentially. You said "when his fist approaches light speed its mass will increase and that GIVES him kinetic energy" Kinetic energy isn't granted magically, you need to put energy in to get energy out., and approaching light speed as you said will require close to an infinite amount of energy to be put in. I know, it's just semantics at this point, because it's ALL impossible, but hey ho, point made.
Hey, I've been reading the Eragon series because I missed it in middle school, and What caught my attention was that Saphira, the dragon character in the book, gets drunk at a party after tasting ale for the first time. My first thought was "how can a reptile get drunk on alcohol?" but then I realized that Saphira is clearly warm-blooded. Could you please do an episode on what, biologically speaking, is a pop-culture dragon?
I must point out that one of the principle fossil specimens of archeopteryx, from which most of our information of it comes from, is currently being disputed as a modified compsognathus fossil. I must say that I wouldn't doubt if the species never existed and was invented to satiate the desperation of Evolutionists with a "missing link." Again, it is being disputed, so nothing can be said for sure, but I have my hunches. Beyond that, if archeopteryx did exist, it would have been nothing special. Many extinct birds had teeth and claws, and some modern birds, such as the hoatzin, have them. All that to say, No, pop-culture dragons are not similar to bird-ancestors, but are likely their own type of animal. Warm-blooded but still vulnerable somewhat to cold-blooded effects from environment heat (Saphira talked about the desert heat making her feel "alive"), unique scales over mammalian hides, flammable gas glands and electric ignition organs, along with the tremendously tough innards to bear the flame, and finally, a highly advanced brain that is either equal to, slightly less than, or even greater than human brains. @@matthewmuir8884
Hey Kyle, some corrections on the tree vs human getting hit by lightning. Trees have LESS moisture content than humans. The reason people generally take less damage than trees is that people are better conductors than trees. Resistance to electrical flow creates heat, and it is the greater resistance to electricity that causes so much damage.
Actually, Genos burned Saitama's ordinary clothes off, not his super suit, and Boros only tore the cape off and left a few rips in the suit. I believe in the special episode Road To Hero, it explained where he got his suit, it was an old tailor's final achievement, and the old man says he put everything he had into it so it's entirely possible it's made of a much more durable fabric than ordinary clothes.
LOVE THE SHOW! Learned more from you than from my entire school life. Einstein said "Education is what you get in school, knowledge is what you gain outside of it"... something like that. Okay so: 1. Xenomorphs vs Superman 2. Opinion on speedforce (My head cannon is that it is energy itself. Physics don't apply to the Flash because physics allow it) 3. Kurama (kyuubi) from Naruto is said to cause tsunamis and crush mountains with one tail swipe, how much force/energy would it take. 4. Transformers require Energon to survive. Based on how much power it takes, what how much energy does one cube contain? AM I NERDY ENOUGH?!
I thought I recognized some of the locations you referenced. I live in the Milwaukee area as well. I'm sad I missed the event. Keep up the hard work. I look forward to any other upcoming meetups that might happen.
I would say the clouds weren't pushed by a sonic windgust, but were vaporized like the paint was by the nuclear explosion before the actual shockwave knocked over the bus.
@@DrewLSsix No, they consist of microscopic water droplets. That is not vapor. Vapor would mean that if you fly through a cloud, you get cooked alive because the cloud is boiling hot.
@@Seamus.Harper You are technically correct (the best kind of correct) but floating water like clouds and the condensate that comes from boiling water into steam are commonly referred to as "vapour." I'm not saying it's right or wrong, it just is.
I think an interesting episode might be how strong a magic weapon like Wonder Woman's God Killer would need to be to stand up to the strength of her attacks and what she is hitting. Or would a regular forged sword be usable by someone with superhuman strength.
1) Relativity means you can get whatever energy you want with speeds below c. 2) Can't shockwaves travel faster than the speed of sound? Isn't that kind of the point? It'd leave a huge zone of low pressure behind it which might (!) collapse dramatically like the mantis shrimp's punch causing cavitation in water. That sounds like a pretty cool episode actually. Would the atmosphere act like water in that regard, or would it just look like a sideways mushroom cloud?
Okay so that ‘you erupted’ super nerd quip was pretty damn funny and caught me off guard to the point where I *actually laughed out loud* - I was frightened hearing my own laugh. Disconcerting af.
I asked the glassing question too & as for the lightning survivor, my uncle has been struck 3 times while playing golf during his back swing. Ud have thought he'd have learned his lesson the first time but no, it took 2 more occasions to learn to stop playing when storms roll in
You have to use the Relativistic kinetic energy equation when dealing with speeds close to the speed of light: KE=(mc^2)*(1/(sqrt(1-((v^2)/(c^2))))-1). So the punch would still deliver a million septillion Joules of energy while moving slower than the speed of light. If it was moving at the speed of light, it would have infinite kinetic energy.
@ Kyle, I asked this in a previous video. I thought I would ask again here if there is a chance of you doing a video on the subject. I have a burning question that needs answering. In Star Wars, is the Force or the act of using the Force faster than the speed of light? In Star Wars both the Jedi and Sith are able to perceive events or use the Force from thousands of light years away. Examples of this are Vader using Force Choke from across the galaxy, Yoda sensing Anakin Skywalker’s pain between Tatooine and Coruscant or Obi-Wan Kenobi sensing the destruction of Alderaan from light years away. I realize the answer would seem somewhat apparent after watching the films and tv shows, but still think it would be an interesting topic. This also brings up another question, is there a physical limit as to how far away one can use the Force and it still work? Thanks for all of the amazing content and Best regards! Odawne
Force probably has to do with the manipulation of space time, the only way would be creating a small super weak wormhole so barely even light can pass through, send information through that wormhole (gravitons? Wich are the equivalent of photons for space-time waves?) And bend spacetime on the other side. That would require a really strong force user. But don't holograms just connect with people from around the galaxy instantly? Maybe they can use the same technology to basically force grip you out of the phone
Modern physic is only useful in planetary scale, if you go out into the universe or down to the quantum realm things change. Quantum entanglement is a good chance to drastically increase our information transmission speed or actually move to other stars without breaking the laws of physic: www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-quest-to-test-quantum-entanglement
Fun fact! You could have the shockwave from Saitama's fist travel as fast as shown (theoretically) by treating it as a shockwave/blast wave, since blast waves can and do propagate faster than the speed of sound in the medium, high explosives and nuclear bomb blasts are examples. With some trig, and counting the time from punch start to the visual of the Earth, I got an average speed of about 5*10^5 m/s for the blast wave. With the ridiculous output energy you calculated, it seems pretty reasonable.
For Bruce Banner/The Hulk's need for glasses: that's actually pretty easy. Assuming Dr. Banner is myopic (like most people who usually need to wear glasses) his eye is relatively too strong or long, between the power of the cornea and lens or the placement of the retina. When his body grows as he transforms into the Hulk, either the eyes actually become slightly smaller, correcting the myopia, or the power in the cornea and lens change with the size change to correct his vision. (Alternatively, the Hulk doesn't need to see fine detail, so he lives with the myopic blur and has the same refractive error as Dr. Banner). You know, still would make for an interesting episode, as I don't know anything about the Marvel canon pertaining to this topic, and you are very good at researching sources.
When it comes to that final correction, shockwaves through a fluid differ from normal compression waves . Shockwaves through air actually travel faster than sound waves and their speed increases with the amplitude of the wave. So the stronger the initial event is, the faster it moves. I have no idea as to how fast an air shockwave would move with a Saitama punch would be, but it would definitely be faster than sound.
I commented on the last video you posted involving the chicken cooking slap... there is ONE way to cook a chicken with a single slap, and that is to confine it into a space before you do so. A hydraulic press is the only means we have of doing so, but in theory, if you could perfectly seal a slap, you could build up the internal pressure until the heat cooked the chicken... it would be more of a can of chicken-spam when you're done than anything resembling a bird... but it should be possible to get it hot enough through compression.
Great episode. Love how you explained how the lightning doesn't cause people to explode from getting struck and explaining why that is. Honestly I am kind of ashamed that I'm as curious as I am about Thanos's potential colonoscopy lol.
One comment about the covenant glassing a planet, it would also be much more possible than an instant vaporization/glassing. The covenant spend weeks or even a month scouring the surface of a planet with their ships (depending on how many of them are participating). So while it should total 10^28J of energy, the actual weapons used would be *significantly* weaker. Several orders of magnitude, even.
You referred to the phenomenon of lightning vaporizing the moisture on the skin of someone who gets struck as flashover. Fun fact: flashover is also used in the study of fire. In this context, it's the term for the moment when the air in a burning room reaches the ignition point for the half-burned particulates floating around, and for all intents and purposes the *air* catches fire. Incidentally, this phenomenon creates the same telltale marks that used to be blamed on the presence of an accelerant (such as gasoline), leading to many an undeserved arson charge.
At 5:55 lightning (lightening?) can actually go up as well as down, in fact I be,live it's more common for lightning to go up, it moves so fast that it is indiscernible as to which direction the strike travels in.
About the velocity of his fist: If I recall correctly special relativity predicts that the mass of his fist would increase as it gets closer to the speed of light. Through this you can give an object an arbitrary large amount of kinetic energy without having to exceed the speed of light. However.. it's been a while since the last time I had a physics lecture, so someone with good understanding of relativity theory correct me, if I got sth wrong.
"That's what an oven does" I imagined an oven with many many micro hands slaping the chicken! And the cook looking from outside like "Yeah, that's hot! Slap that chick!" hahaha
Hey Kyle! I think it would be possible (in theory) to put any amount of kinetic energy into a moving object. If I remember correctly, as an object approaches relativistic speeds, it acquires relativistic mass (in addition to its invariant or rest mass). I think when calculating the kinetic energy (E=0.5*m*v*v) of a fast moving object, the mass would include this extra relativistic mass. Thus one could put any amount of kinetic energy into an object by accelerating it to relativistic speeds. Correct me if I am wrong. Really love the show.
The Mantis Shrimp. They really missed out using that as a Kaiju(sp) or Pokemon or Godzilla adversary. The paint on the bus doesn't vaporize all at once. It vaporizes in the spherical wavefront interface of the expanding thermal pulse which propagates at a significant fraction of the speed of light in the fluid medium of air.
Saitama may have an ability to control energy but he's just so dense that he does it instinctively instead of actively. This would explain 2 things. 1. His clothes not always getting damaged (Genos roasting his clothes would have happened because, unlike every other interaction besides Sea King punching his dome, Saitama was caught unawares by it) since he could have a "Shield." 2. His Serious Punch wouldn't have to be FTL if it's just an invisivle energy beam.
Kind of a correction to a correction: When I was watching Season 1 again in prep for Season 2, I noticed that after the Serious Punch not only was there a cone of clear sky in front of Saitama, but a thinner one behind him. Maybe that is where some of that equal and opposite energy went. Good enough for anime if you ask me
About Hulk/Bruice glasses thing - glasses are needed when ocular muscles are not strong enough to deform the lens into correct shape for focus. Hulk has stronger muscles, they can do it.
you were just in (and are from) Milwaukee?? Man, plug that in your videos more next time lol! im Madison born and raised and have been watching for years, would have been great to see your nerdery in person!
Hey Kyle. In a previous episode you said the flash couldn’t run in the opposite direction of a tornado because the air resistance against the tornado wouldn’t be strong enough given the height of Barry. My question is why wouldn’t the air build off of itself creating a wall of air (covering more distance vertically)? Also could the flash throw lightning??? 🤔
0:48 Actually, there's one more, the ant species Mystrium camillae, which is not really related to the trap jaw ant and holds the record for the fastest animal movement, in the form of its snapping jaws reaching speeds of up to 200 MPH.
i wanted to ask if you'd do an episode based on the equivalent exchange principle of alchemy in fullmetal alchemist. but uh... i see you have your plate full with the next episode...
Hmm. I definitely like Gwyneth's shockwave point - though I'm not sure we're going to have to worry about the propagation of the speed of sound, so much as the fusion byproducts from Saitama's punch. If he's punching at some extremely high % of the speed of light, the atmosphere in front of his fist is going to be fusing and accelerated to a similarly absurd speed, resulting in a cone of fusing atmosphere similar to that described in the first of Randal Monroe's 'What If' pieces - the light-speed baseball pitch, except probably a great deal larger given the much higher theoretical energies involved - which would be putting a lot more 9s after the decimal in our lightspeed value in this case.
You should really check out this feat by a character called Knocking Master Jirou from Toriko where he taps a planet the size of Neptune and almost stops it's rotation while paralyzing everyone on it.
Lightning bolts actually go from the ground to the cloud. The Slow Mo Guys were actually able to record this on film in their Planet Slow Mo series. If you are struck, the electricity is actually entering your feet and exiting your head.
The question of why the Hulk does not wear glasses, reminded me of a case that a patient had multiple personalities; one of these many personalities was blind, the curious thing is that the other personalities were not, they took an examination and the result was unexpected; when the blind personality was in control of consciousness the part of the brain responsible for the vision was inactive, and when another personality assumed the place of the blind personality, the patient could see normally. really a strange and unexplained situation, but I think this happens to the Hulk since there are two personalities trying to domain the same mind
I think the 10km running EVERYDAY and having no air conditioner at your home to cool you off for the entire summer day is the hardest part. Also doing a 100 push ups after a while strains your muscles alot, I doubt anyone would able to continue doing it for a year every single day, let alone 3.
the only relly difficult thing is the ten kilometre run, everything else is theoretically doable, if you are rich enough to find the time to do the workout, get the apropriate ammount of rest post workout and buy a proper ammount of food and still have enough time in your day left for recreational activity to keep your own sanity. long story short: for saitamas workout to be effective you'd have to be rich enough so you simply can decide not to have a job for three years, while still having enough cash on hand to buy extremely good running shoes on a regular basis so the ten kilometre run doesn't fuck up your legs and feet.
Hey, Kyle! Love your work! I have a saying for you that I learned from one of my teachers in college. "When a scientist says that something is impossible, they are most assuredly wrong. When they say something is improbable, they are most assuredly right." Think about it. Later!
I always imagined super strength as someone flash changing their mass to astronomical levels to achieve the insane momentum as opposed to going ftl with low mass. Sorta explains how they don't get blown up by these punches too.
Re: superluminal fists to produce X amount of energy. Not really. As soon as the fist starts going really quick (0,1c or so), the numbers from the usual kinetic energy equatuion are wrong. Because that equation is _actually wrong_ . It works at slow speeds, but in truth you should use the _correct as far as we know_ relativistic version of the kinetic energy equation (which I am not even _trying_ to write here, it would be a mess, go look it up) which goes infinite as you approach c. So it might turn out that you need v=0,999...c to get all them joules, but you'll never get to v=c, because then Ke=infinite for any mass above 0. And for v>c it actually gives you _negative_ energies, which is why we say superluminal travel is impossible according to relativity, you would have to first gain infinite energy, then switch it to negative energy, which makes no sense as we define energy.
I believe that E when v>C {E=mc2/sqrt(1-v2/C2)}.. Energy is rest mass divided by an imaginary number. So energy wouldn't benegative, it'd be imaginary.
My favorite nerdy workout specialist Jaxblade, gets a question answered by my favorite nerdy answer guy? You can go home, the opening question of the video made my day!
Regarding Saitama's punching needing to be FTL: Wouldn't his punch gain mass as it approached relativistic speeds, thus not requiring it to travel faster than light? It would be more massive and impart more energy. Assuming that anime physics prevented his punch from producing a black hole or massive nuclear event of course.
A thought. If Saitama is deflecting the energy of Boros' attack, and Boros' attack is largely either plasma or photons in nature, it could be the repulsion of that energy that causes the clouds to appear "parted" in that instant. In actuality, it may simply be adding enough energy to those clouds to cause the molecules of water in the air to disperse to the point where they aren't visible to the eye anymore- possibly even enough to... vaporize it. This would also serve to explain how the clouds reappear only moments later, after the ship has crashed into the ground- the moisture re-forming into a liquid state.
Why hulk don't need glasses, well one thing is that usually his power is a form of very fast self-healing, and it might also apply to correct Bruces defect of vision, sometimes it's even pointed in comics that after 1st transformation into Hulk it's even healed for Bruce too, but in some older comics we had hulk wearing glasses for reading
Random thought, inspired by the propagation issue: Wouldn't it have taken *much* longer for the planets to be destroyed in "The Force Awakens"? Which leads to a much more interesting (to me) question: What is your favourite sci-fi spacecraft, if terms of propulsion system plausibility?
Kyle, doesn’t a lightning strike gets rebounded back to the sky? Does it still gets rebounded when it strikes something like a tree or a body? Does hovering off the ground while getting struck by lightning impose more energy to a body before traveling through and out towards the earth? On a side note, does Shazzam’s lightning also behaves like normal lightning ( cause it’s magical lightning)?
I don’t think Saitama’s fist would have to travel faster than light to have the effect in question. As I understand it, E=MC2 suggests that if the energy is increasing, then the mass is, too. So what you would actually see is Saitama’s fist grow tremendously as it it approaches the speed of light, without ever surpassing it.
A hero punching someone faster than light means the person gets punched before the puncher decides to punch. That would make a very funny plot for anime xD
with the bring up of the ligttning bolt on how much power it has, i remember one time when i was younger my mom had me walk to the store during a thunder storm, on my way there was a lightning bolt that struck down near me, i didn't get burned or struck or get arched, but what i do remember is feeling intense heat, this is a decade back, from your scientific annotations how far would i have been from this bolt to see it feel the heat, but not be singed or zapped by it, i only ask because its fun seeing you analyze things in your videos
"Why doesn't the Hulk need glasses if Bruce Banner need glasses?" My answer to that: Bruce Banner mainly needs glasses to read, write etc. These are things the Hulk wouldn't do nor need to do as he is a simple minded creature; the Hulk wouldn't need glasses to smash. He could just swing at the big blur of a villain in front of him with his giant fist and he would probably hit. However, if he were to be short sighted, then he may have difficulty making his super long/high jumps or throwing giant objects at his enemies accurately.
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Thanks for watching super nerds! I REALLY hope Thursday's video helps brings the Thanus meme to a close. Whatever it takes. -- kH
An idea for a future episode: Since Superman is a living solar battery (assuming that his body stores the energy with 100% efficiency), how powerful would his explosion attack "Solar Flare", where he releases all his stored energy be?
Haa...I was there...hey Kyle did you happen to check out Blue Marvel?
And thanks again for the picture and autograph.
Could you do an episode on the biology of altered carbon. I haven't seen the show but the premise seems awesome and I know you'd do an amazing job at it as always. Keep up the awesome work.
The question of why the Hulk does not wear glasses, reminded me of a case that a patient had multiple personalities;
one of these many personalities was blind, the curious thing is that the other personalities were not, they took an examination and the result was unexpected;
when the blind personality was in control of consciousness the part of the brain responsible for the vision was inactive, and when another personality assumed the place of the blind personality, the patient could see normally.
really a strange and unexplained situation, but I think this happens to the Hulk since there are two personalities trying to domain the same mind
"An oven slaps the chicken trillions of times with air to cook it" - Kyle 2019
Tee or Meme coming!?!
"The internet made me do it"
So if you massage a chicken for hours would that also cook it?
Also shockwaves can propegate faster than the speed of sound that's what makes high explosives high explosives as differentiated from things like black powder
@@EwWhoIsTHAT no because of the loss of heat to the air. Now if you could perfectly insulate the chicken and yourself while performing the massage, then we are cooking with -gas!- massage?
Highly ANT-icipating the next episode.
Wasp that a pun? I think that wasp a pun.
Get out. Both of you.
@@jacobsimon4358 why do you have to bee that way?
Jacob Simon Ant nobody want your opinion
“The ultimate tensile strength of butt stuff” is definitely not something I was expecting to hear on this channel
Ever hear of FATAL?
About the energy part, you would need to use the relativistic calculation of energy so: mc²/√(1-(v/c)²)
exactly what i was thinking. All the Energy would convert to a higher relative mass of the fist.
At what point would it collapse into a black hole and from whose point of view?
@@ciCCapROSTi the proof is trivial so i'll let you do that as homework
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Wouldn't the fist be able to gain mass because of the Lorentz factor as it approaches lightspeed?
I thought about that too, thx for asking. 👍🤓
Yeah 100% that's the science behind flashes infinite mass punch from dc
Yeah I'm not sure why Kyle didn't mention this.
Exactly. In a newtonian world the speed would indeed have to be ftl but then the speed of light is nothing special. But with special relativity, you can reach whatever amount of energy you wish just by getting closer and closer to c. Until your fist collapses into a black hole. But the squid thing already tried the black hole in Saitama and it didn't work, so I guess opm can pull his first out of an event horizon.
Yeah, an object of any mass traveling arbitrarily close to the speed of light can have arbitrarily high energy because bringing anything with mass to the speed of light would require infinite energy.
"The internet made me do it." - Kyle 2019
Serial killer material right there... 😅
*"THE INTERNET MADE ME DO IT"* The answer to everything I do from now on.. Thanks Kyle.
2:55 Thanks for Answering xD
That Blacktama shoutout!
"Whatever it takes. But(t) let's get into it" 😂 I see what you did there
Thanks for the inclusion Kyle. I knew it is impossible, of course, it was just fun to think about. I feel proud to have my first comment ever in Footnotes
Dude! JaxBlade got on the show! Good job, bro 🙌😁
2:52 Wow.. Instant JaxBlade poppin' up :D
When his fist approaches light speed, its mass will increase and thus the kinetic energy will reach the required level before FTL.
If you are going to apply relatively you gotta use the whole thing. “Give him the kinetic energy” it will not.
@@DrewLSsix Just replying to Kyle's comment of having that much Kinetic energy will require FTL punch speed. It does not. Approaching the speed of light will just increase his punch's mass and thus it doesn't need to go FTL to reach that kind of kinetic energy.
I have no idea why I need to apply relativity to other parts in this particular comment.
If you want to say he cannot punch his hand at that kind of speed or he doesn't have the energy to begin with, or anything about his body cannot sustain that kind of speed, it is not a matter of relativity, but like Kyle said, Satire.
As velocity tends towards _c_ mass tends towards infinity and so does the amount of energy required to change the velocity any further. Saitama would have to be infinitely strong to swing his fist at light speed, and he'd have one hell of a time stopping it thereafter!
@@aitchpea6011 That is why he doesn't go FTL. You only need to approach the energy level calculated in the episode, not infinite.
@@MazokuJun The point is that the energy you need to put in to accelerate a mass increases by the square of that mass, thus exponentially. You said "when his fist approaches light speed its mass will increase and that GIVES him kinetic energy" Kinetic energy isn't granted magically, you need to put energy in to get energy out., and approaching light speed as you said will require close to an infinite amount of energy to be put in. I know, it's just semantics at this point, because it's ALL impossible, but hey ho, point made.
Hey, I've been reading the Eragon series because I missed it in middle school, and What caught my attention was that Saphira, the dragon character in the book, gets drunk at a party after tasting ale for the first time. My first thought was "how can a reptile get drunk on alcohol?" but then I realized that Saphira is clearly warm-blooded. Could you please do an episode on what, biologically speaking, is a pop-culture dragon?
Probably a missing link between dinosaurs and birds
I read the entire series in High School for fun and I gotta say I love the series. Thanks for bringing back some good memories!
Started on Eldest yesterday, gotta say Saphira getting drunk was the highlight of the series!@@ninsomboshi
A pop-culture dragon is probably a relative of bird ancestors, such as Archaeopteryx.
I must point out that one of the principle fossil specimens of archeopteryx, from which most of our information of it comes from, is currently being disputed as a modified compsognathus fossil. I must say that I wouldn't doubt if the species never existed and was invented to satiate the desperation of Evolutionists with a "missing link." Again, it is being disputed, so nothing can be said for sure, but I have my hunches. Beyond that, if archeopteryx did exist, it would have been nothing special. Many extinct birds had teeth and claws, and some modern birds, such as the hoatzin, have them. All that to say, No, pop-culture dragons are not similar to bird-ancestors, but are likely their own type of animal. Warm-blooded but still vulnerable somewhat to cold-blooded effects from environment heat (Saphira talked about the desert heat making her feel "alive"), unique scales over mammalian hides, flammable gas glands and electric ignition organs, along with the tremendously tough innards to bear the flame, and finally, a highly advanced brain that is either equal to, slightly less than, or even greater than human brains. @@matthewmuir8884
Hey Kyle, some corrections on the tree vs human getting hit by lightning. Trees have LESS moisture content than humans. The reason people generally take less damage than trees is that people are better conductors than trees. Resistance to electrical flow creates heat, and it is the greater resistance to electricity that causes so much damage.
I love how you are so reluctant to say something is impossible, human knowledge and understanding is always expanding.
Actually, Genos burned Saitama's ordinary clothes off, not his super suit, and Boros only tore the cape off and left a few rips in the suit. I believe in the special episode Road To Hero, it explained where he got his suit, it was an old tailor's final achievement, and the old man says he put everything he had into it so it's entirely possible it's made of a much more durable fabric than ordinary clothes.
LOVE THE SHOW! Learned more from you than from my entire school life. Einstein said "Education is what you get in school, knowledge is what you gain outside of it"... something like that.
Okay so:
1. Xenomorphs vs Superman
2. Opinion on speedforce (My head cannon is that it is energy itself. Physics don't apply to the Flash because physics allow it)
3. Kurama (kyuubi) from Naruto is said to cause tsunamis and crush mountains with one tail swipe, how much force/energy would it take.
4. Transformers require Energon to survive. Based on how much power it takes, what how much energy does one cube contain?
AM I NERDY ENOUGH?!
I thought I recognized some of the locations you referenced. I live in the Milwaukee area as well. I'm sad I missed the event. Keep up the hard work. I look forward to any other upcoming meetups that might happen.
I would say the clouds weren't pushed by a sonic windgust, but were vaporized like the paint was by the nuclear explosion before the actual shockwave knocked over the bus.
Clouds are already vapor....
@@DrewLSsix No, they consist of microscopic water droplets. That is not vapor. Vapor would mean that if you fly through a cloud, you get cooked alive because the cloud is boiling hot.
@@Seamus.Harper You are technically correct (the best kind of correct) but floating water like clouds and the condensate that comes from boiling water into steam are commonly referred to as "vapour." I'm not saying it's right or wrong, it just is.
8:37 Meme It Please!
"Ya know, SURE!!" 🤨😂
I learned something new today. You live in milwaukee... Being a Wisconsinite this pleases me greatly.
I think an interesting episode might be how strong a magic weapon like Wonder Woman's God Killer would need to be to stand up to the strength of her attacks and what she is hitting. Or would a regular forged sword be usable by someone with superhuman strength.
1) Relativity means you can get whatever energy you want with speeds below c.
2) Can't shockwaves travel faster than the speed of sound? Isn't that kind of the point? It'd leave a huge zone of low pressure behind it which might (!) collapse dramatically like the mantis shrimp's punch causing cavitation in water. That sounds like a pretty cool episode actually. Would the atmosphere act like water in that regard, or would it just look like a sideways mushroom cloud?
"Where did that energy come from?" Maybe he wound up his punch.
Okay so that ‘you erupted’ super nerd quip was pretty damn funny and caught me off guard to the point where I *actually laughed out loud* - I was frightened hearing my own laugh. Disconcerting af.
I asked the glassing question too
& as for the lightning survivor, my uncle has been struck 3 times while playing golf during his back swing. Ud have thought he'd have learned his lesson the first time but no, it took 2 more occasions to learn to stop playing when storms roll in
This week on because science:
we are very late on an April fools joke
Jaxblade my boy. Should have expected to see you here. Gettin tough like the toonz and smart too.
You have to use the Relativistic kinetic energy equation when dealing with speeds close to the speed of light: KE=(mc^2)*(1/(sqrt(1-((v^2)/(c^2))))-1). So the punch would still deliver a million septillion Joules of energy while moving slower than the speed of light. If it was moving at the speed of light, it would have infinite kinetic energy.
@ Kyle,
I asked this in a previous video. I thought I would ask again here if there is a chance of you doing a video on the subject.
I have a burning question that needs answering. In Star Wars, is the Force or the act of using the Force faster than the speed of light? In Star Wars both the Jedi and Sith are able to perceive events or use the Force from thousands of light years away. Examples of this are Vader using Force Choke from across the galaxy, Yoda sensing Anakin Skywalker’s pain between Tatooine and Coruscant or Obi-Wan Kenobi sensing the destruction of Alderaan from light years away. I realize the answer would seem somewhat apparent after watching the films and tv shows, but still think it would be an interesting topic.
This also brings up another question, is there a physical limit as to how far away one can use the Force and it still work?
Thanks for all of the amazing content and Best regards!
Odawne
Force probably has to do with the manipulation of space time, the only way would be creating a small super weak wormhole so barely even light can pass through, send information through that wormhole (gravitons? Wich are the equivalent of photons for space-time waves?) And bend spacetime on the other side.
That would require a really strong force user.
But don't holograms just connect with people from around the galaxy instantly? Maybe they can use the same technology to basically force grip you out of the phone
Modern physic is only useful in planetary scale, if you go out into the universe or down to the quantum realm things change.
Quantum entanglement is a good chance to drastically increase our information transmission speed or actually move to other stars without breaking the laws of physic:
www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-quest-to-test-quantum-entanglement
This was so much fun. Also can't wait for more Saitama. :D
Fun fact! You could have the shockwave from Saitama's fist travel as fast as shown (theoretically) by treating it as a shockwave/blast wave, since blast waves can and do propagate faster than the speed of sound in the medium, high explosives and nuclear bomb blasts are examples. With some trig, and counting the time from punch start to the visual of the Earth, I got an average speed of about 5*10^5 m/s for the blast wave. With the ridiculous output energy you calculated, it seems pretty reasonable.
"The Internet made me do it!" rofl
I imagine your mom calling you to say "Would you jump off a bridge if the internet asked you to science it?"
The way you said whatever it takes was perfectly balanced. As all things should be.
For Bruce Banner/The Hulk's need for glasses: that's actually pretty easy. Assuming Dr. Banner is myopic (like most people who usually need to wear glasses) his eye is relatively too strong or long, between the power of the cornea and lens or the placement of the retina. When his body grows as he transforms into the Hulk, either the eyes actually become slightly smaller, correcting the myopia, or the power in the cornea and lens change with the size change to correct his vision. (Alternatively, the Hulk doesn't need to see fine detail, so he lives with the myopic blur and has the same refractive error as Dr. Banner).
You know, still would make for an interesting episode, as I don't know anything about the Marvel canon pertaining to this topic, and you are very good at researching sources.
1:55 "butt...getting right into it." I see what you did there...
When it comes to that final correction, shockwaves through a fluid differ from normal compression waves . Shockwaves through air actually travel faster than sound waves and their speed increases with the amplitude of the wave. So the stronger the initial event is, the faster it moves. I have no idea as to how fast an air shockwave would move with a Saitama punch would be, but it would definitely be faster than sound.
I commented on the last video you posted involving the chicken cooking slap... there is ONE way to cook a chicken with a single slap, and that is to confine it into a space before you do so. A hydraulic press is the only means we have of doing so, but in theory, if you could perfectly seal a slap, you could build up the internal pressure until the heat cooked the chicken... it would be more of a can of chicken-spam when you're done than anything resembling a bird... but it should be possible to get it hot enough through compression.
Great episode. Love how you explained how the lightning doesn't cause people to explode from getting struck and explaining why that is. Honestly I am kind of ashamed that I'm as curious as I am about Thanos's potential colonoscopy lol.
One comment about the covenant glassing a planet, it would also be much more possible than an instant vaporization/glassing. The covenant spend weeks or even a month scouring the surface of a planet with their ships (depending on how many of them are participating). So while it should total 10^28J of energy, the actual weapons used would be *significantly* weaker. Several orders of magnitude, even.
"The internet made me do it"? Come on Kyle, own it. You just wanted to know more butt stuff xP
Just started the video... and the biggest Avengers meme I can think of right now is uh... "the GIF."
That's a bold choice for a video, Kyle.
I cant believe I wasn't subscribed this whole time ive been watching these damn things
You referred to the phenomenon of lightning vaporizing the moisture on the skin of someone who gets struck as flashover. Fun fact: flashover is also used in the study of fire. In this context, it's the term for the moment when the air in a burning room reaches the ignition point for the half-burned particulates floating around, and for all intents and purposes the *air* catches fire. Incidentally, this phenomenon creates the same telltale marks that used to be blamed on the presence of an accelerant (such as gasoline), leading to many an undeserved arson charge.
At 5:55 lightning (lightening?) can actually go up as well as down, in fact I be,live it's more common for lightning to go up, it moves so fast that it is indiscernible as to which direction the strike travels in.
About the velocity of his fist: If I recall correctly special relativity predicts that the mass of his fist would increase as it gets closer to the speed of light. Through this you can give an object an arbitrary large amount of kinetic energy without having to exceed the speed of light.
However.. it's been a while since the last time I had a physics lecture, so someone with good understanding of relativity theory correct me, if I got sth wrong.
"That's what an oven does"
I imagined an oven with many many micro hands slaping the chicken! And the cook looking from outside like "Yeah, that's hot! Slap that chick!" hahaha
Hey Kyle!
I think it would be possible (in theory) to put any amount of kinetic energy into a moving object.
If I remember correctly, as an object approaches relativistic speeds, it acquires relativistic mass (in addition to its invariant or rest mass).
I think when calculating the kinetic energy (E=0.5*m*v*v) of a fast moving object, the mass would include this extra relativistic mass.
Thus one could put any amount of kinetic energy into an object by accelerating it to relativistic speeds.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Really love the show.
Kyle, heard you hung out with my boi JP from Egotastic Fun Time(Orville fan/Scifi youtuber channel) at Yuri's night.
Hope you had fun!
That is all!
The next video is going to be #1 trending calling it now.
Oven slaps chicken.
Oven: this lil beauty is done
The Mantis Shrimp. They really missed out using that as a Kaiju(sp) or Pokemon or Godzilla adversary.
The paint on the bus doesn't vaporize all at once. It vaporizes in the spherical wavefront interface of the expanding thermal pulse which propagates at a significant fraction of the speed of light in the fluid medium of air.
Saitama may have an ability to control energy but he's just so dense that he does it instinctively instead of actively.
This would explain 2 things.
1. His clothes not always getting damaged (Genos roasting his clothes would have happened because, unlike every other interaction besides Sea King punching his dome, Saitama was caught unawares by it) since he could have a "Shield."
2. His Serious Punch wouldn't have to be FTL if it's just an invisivle energy beam.
Kind of a correction to a correction: When I was watching Season 1 again in prep for Season 2, I noticed that after the Serious Punch not only was there a cone of clear sky in front of Saitama, but a thinner one behind him. Maybe that is where some of that equal and opposite energy went. Good enough for anime if you ask me
About Hulk/Bruice glasses thing - glasses are needed when ocular muscles are not strong enough to deform the lens into correct shape for focus. Hulk has stronger muscles, they can do it.
you were just in (and are from) Milwaukee?? Man, plug that in your videos more next time lol! im Madison born and raised and have been watching for years, would have been great to see your nerdery in person!
Hey Kyle. In a previous episode you said the flash couldn’t run in the opposite direction of a tornado because the air resistance against the tornado wouldn’t be strong enough given the height of Barry. My question is why wouldn’t the air build off of itself creating a wall of air (covering more distance vertically)? Also could the flash throw lightning??? 🤔
0:48 Actually, there's one more, the ant species Mystrium camillae, which is not really related to the trap jaw ant and holds the record for the fastest animal movement, in the form of its snapping jaws reaching speeds of up to 200 MPH.
i wanted to ask if you'd do an episode based on the equivalent exchange principle of alchemy in fullmetal alchemist. but uh... i see you have your plate full with the next episode...
"And then they'd turn to dust, just like spiderman."
I was not prepared
Hmm. I definitely like Gwyneth's shockwave point - though I'm not sure we're going to have to worry about the propagation of the speed of sound, so much as the fusion byproducts from Saitama's punch. If he's punching at some extremely high % of the speed of light, the atmosphere in front of his fist is going to be fusing and accelerated to a similarly absurd speed, resulting in a cone of fusing atmosphere similar to that described in the first of Randal Monroe's 'What If' pieces - the light-speed baseball pitch, except probably a great deal larger given the much higher theoretical energies involved - which would be putting a lot more 9s after the decimal in our lightspeed value in this case.
I can see Ant Man becoming the butt of everyone's jokes soon.
"BUTT getting right into it" x'D you're hilarious Kyle
Love the ferris buler ref!👍
You should really check out this feat by a character called Knocking Master Jirou from Toriko where he taps a planet the size of Neptune and almost stops it's rotation while paralyzing everyone on it.
I'm pretty sure it would result in Thanos pooping out an 80kg meat-sausage made of ant-man paste.
Nasty
You sound like my teacher that's just great
Awesome to find out one of my favorite youtubers is from my hometown of Milwaukee!!!
Lightning bolts actually go from the ground to the cloud. The Slow Mo Guys were actually able to record this on film in their Planet Slow Mo series. If you are struck, the electricity is actually entering your feet and exiting your head.
I needed this today
Good to see a crossover between Jax and Because science
It is awesome to have Jax Blade featured on this! (In a sense, at least)
THOR!
you bastard.
The guardians need you ASAP! LoL :)
4:36 That's Saitama's next finishing move: Consecutive flimsy micro-slaps
Ok
The question of why the Hulk does not wear glasses, reminded me of a case that a patient had multiple personalities;
one of these many personalities was blind, the curious thing is that the other personalities were not, they took an examination and the result was unexpected;
when the blind personality was in control of consciousness the part of the brain responsible for the vision was inactive, and when another personality assumed the place of the blind personality, the patient could see normally.
really a strange and unexplained situation, but I think this happens to the Hulk since there are two personalities trying to domain the same mind
I think the 10km running EVERYDAY and having no air conditioner at your home to cool you off for the entire summer day is the hardest part. Also doing a 100 push ups after a while strains your muscles alot, I doubt anyone would able to continue doing it for a year every single day, let alone 3.
the only relly difficult thing is the ten kilometre run, everything else is theoretically doable, if you are rich enough to find the time to do the workout, get the apropriate ammount of rest post workout and buy a proper ammount of food and still have enough time in your day left for recreational activity to keep your own sanity.
long story short: for saitamas workout to be effective you'd have to be rich enough so you simply can decide not to have a job for three years, while still having enough cash on hand to buy extremely good running shoes on a regular basis so the ten kilometre run doesn't fuck up your legs and feet.
Are you about to use science to explain Antman crawling up Thanos’ ass to kill him?!? Gosh darn it I love your commitment
Question.
How fast did Sonic land on Saitama’s fist, and how much energy dis his balls absorb?
😂
My main got balls of steel
*-no homo-*
Hey, Kyle! Love your work! I have a saying for you that I learned from one of my teachers in college. "When a scientist says that something is impossible, they are most assuredly wrong. When they say something is improbable, they are most assuredly right." Think about it. Later!
By the way, there's a businessman called Sean Seah that performed Saitama's training and got incredible results in 1 mo
man i am exited for season 2 today
I always imagined super strength as someone flash changing their mass to astronomical levels to achieve the insane momentum as opposed to going ftl with low mass. Sorta explains how they don't get blown up by these punches too.
Re: superluminal fists to produce X amount of energy. Not really. As soon as the fist starts going really quick (0,1c or so), the numbers from the usual kinetic energy equatuion are wrong. Because that equation is _actually wrong_ . It works at slow speeds, but in truth you should use the _correct as far as we know_ relativistic version of the kinetic energy equation (which I am not even _trying_ to write here, it would be a mess, go look it up) which goes infinite as you approach c. So it might turn out that you need v=0,999...c to get all them joules, but you'll never get to v=c, because then Ke=infinite for any mass above 0. And for v>c it actually gives you _negative_ energies, which is why we say superluminal travel is impossible according to relativity, you would have to first gain infinite energy, then switch it to negative energy, which makes no sense as we define energy.
I believe that E when v>C {E=mc2/sqrt(1-v2/C2)}.. Energy is rest mass divided by an imaginary number. So energy wouldn't benegative, it'd be imaginary.
@@MrEscape314 Right, I misremembered that and forgot the square root. An even more nonsensical answer then, and thanks for the reminder!
Next episode is gonna be awesome.
My favorite nerdy workout specialist Jaxblade, gets a question answered by my favorite nerdy answer guy? You can go home, the opening question of the video made my day!
Hey Kyle love the show. But tell me is a quantum relm theoretically possible
If by realm, you mean the point at which Quantum Physics takes over, then yes. He did an episode about it.
Regarding Saitama's punching needing to be FTL:
Wouldn't his punch gain mass as it approached relativistic speeds, thus not requiring it to travel faster than light? It would be more massive and impart more energy. Assuming that anime physics prevented his punch from producing a black hole or massive nuclear event of course.
A thought.
If Saitama is deflecting the energy of Boros' attack, and Boros' attack is largely either plasma or photons in nature, it could be the repulsion of that energy that causes the clouds to appear "parted" in that instant. In actuality, it may simply be adding enough energy to those clouds to cause the molecules of water in the air to disperse to the point where they aren't visible to the eye anymore- possibly even enough to... vaporize it. This would also serve to explain how the clouds reappear only moments later, after the ship has crashed into the ground- the moisture re-forming into a liquid state.
Why hulk don't need glasses, well one thing is that usually his power is a form of very fast self-healing, and it might also apply to correct Bruces defect of vision, sometimes it's even pointed in comics that after 1st transformation into Hulk it's even healed for Bruce too, but in some older comics we had hulk wearing glasses for reading
“The internet made me do it.”
I’m gonna use that excuse for everything.
Random thought, inspired by the propagation issue:
Wouldn't it have taken *much* longer for the planets to be destroyed in "The Force Awakens"?
Which leads to a much more interesting (to me) question:
What is your favourite sci-fi spacecraft, if terms of propulsion system plausibility?
Kyle, doesn’t a lightning strike gets rebounded back to the sky? Does it still gets rebounded when it strikes something like a tree or a body? Does hovering off the ground while getting struck by lightning impose more energy to a body before traveling through and out towards the earth? On a side note, does Shazzam’s lightning also behaves like normal lightning ( cause it’s magical lightning)?
I don’t think Saitama’s fist would have to travel faster than light to have the effect in question. As I understand it, E=MC2 suggests that if the energy is increasing, then the mass is, too. So what you would actually see is Saitama’s fist grow tremendously as it it approaches the speed of light, without ever surpassing it.
THAT ENDING MEME LITERALLY ALMOST MADE ME DIE I SWEAR
A hero punching someone faster than light means the person gets punched before the puncher decides to punch. That would make a very funny plot for anime xD
with the bring up of the ligttning bolt on how much power it has, i remember one time when i was younger my mom had me walk to the store during a thunder storm, on my way there was a lightning bolt that struck down near me, i didn't get burned or struck or get arched, but what i do remember is feeling intense heat, this is a decade back, from your scientific annotations how far would i have been from this bolt to see it feel the heat, but not be singed or zapped by it, i only ask because its fun seeing you analyze things in your videos
"Why doesn't the Hulk need glasses if Bruce Banner need glasses?"
My answer to that:
Bruce Banner mainly needs glasses to read, write etc. These are things the Hulk wouldn't do nor need to do as he is a simple minded creature; the Hulk wouldn't need glasses to smash. He could just swing at the big blur of a villain in front of him with his giant fist and he would probably hit. However, if he were to be short sighted, then he may have difficulty making his super long/high jumps or throwing giant objects at his enemies accurately.
Also, Kyle, could you please do an episode going over Superman's sole power: gravity manipulation.
"Stay Nerdy" ?!?! that's the slogan from the guys at Nerdarchy! :O
good episode though.