X-Men: Days of Future Past

Hello Humans! Right now, I just finished writing my last blog post on Gravity and am still remembering some of my favorite times in the basement Physics lecture hall and lab. The final project for the Physics Lab is one I will always be very proud of and take pride in. It’s one of the things that changed my perspective on Physics and what I want to do when I graduate. I am forever grateful to Professor Wiggins for changing my attitude on the subject. It will forever have a huge impact on my life and what I choose to do and how I choose to see the scientific world. Anyways, Wiggins had us prove, or disprove a movie scene by using the laws of Physics we had learned so far that year. I, being the Marvel Comic Book nerd that I am, choose the scene from “X-Men: Days of Future Past” where Quicksilver runs around the kitchen, beating up the police officers so that Logan, Charles, Erik, and himself can escape. I wanted to know if the force put on Quicksilver’s body from the acceleration of his running would kill him or not. It turned out to be really rad and super fun, and the best part, was all I had to use was simple physics we learned at the very beginning of the year. Long story short, I found out that Quicksilver would not survive the force put on his body from running so fast. I then concluded that his mutation was not only being really fast, but also to him being able to survive a much bigger amount of force on his body. I mean, this is a movie about Mutants we are talking about, so pretty much anything is possible. As we learned in my previous blog post, Jean Grey can manipulate gravity to pull objects to her. When I got up to present, Wiggins said that as he was watching the movie in the theatre, he wanted to deconstruct that same exact scene and see if it was possible or not. It made me so happy and made that project all the more worth-while. So, the next time you see a movie, think to yourself if it would be possible in the “real-world.” You’d be surprised what could be real, and what couldn’t be. The project also taught me that Physics is used for so much more than the standard “bowling ball vs. a feather falling form the empire state building,” and made me begin to realize the laws of Physics applied daily in my life. Try to see some of the Physics in your life, it makes the little things seem bigger than they are.

Also, can we all just take a minute and acknowledge that Quicksiver is wearing a super awesome t-shirt of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”. And he has a pretty rad style. Stay wild, flower child.