my name is Dylan I'm a PhD in physics Dropout basically
Ant-Man Quantum Mania was coming out very soon and I realized there's much more important things to
do with my time for example calculating whether or not it's possible uh to shrink a human down
to Ant-Man size so that's what we're going to do today I'm going to work out if it's even possible
before this movie even comes out so let's see what the math says and if it's not possible then you
don't need to worry about going and seeing the movie so in Ant-Man the concept of shrinking a
person is introduced through the idea of that the empty space between the nuclei and the orbiting
electrons that construct their body can be reduced which would conserve the mass of a person but
greatly reduce the space in which they occupy so what we're actually doing in this video is not
determining if it's possible to shrink someone down but we're going to look at how practical
it is so we're going to assume that you know the process is possible and we're going to look at the
effects on you know some ant-man's environment so the math is dumb so Scott Lang himself
right he stands about six feet tall 1.8 meters there's a mass of about 190 pounds 86 kilograms
and when he shrinks he retains all of his mass and strength which is kind of weird so what's
the size to which he can shrink it varies we'll just take it to be about uh 12.7 millimeters which
means he's reduced to about 0.71 of his initial height uh but remember his mass is constant but
he's reduced volume means he becomes way more dense and so we'll assume he shrinks to about
0.71 of his initial dimensions and that means his volume is going to be a factor of 3.58 times 10 to
the negative seven smaller as well so the typical area of a human foot is between 73 and 113 square
centimeters all right so we shall take about 100 centimeters squared uh just for Simplicity so by
doubling it we can actually estimate that the area Scott applies his weight to is about 200
square centimeters 0.02 meters squared and then the pressure he applies to the ground
can also be calculated using right P equals mg over a uh where p is the pressure where
G is the gravitational field strength on Earth just over here oh no I don't know there we go
a is the area R the weight is being applied and let's also calculate the effects his small size
would have on his vision we can estimate basically the minimum angular resolution of an aperture you
know the pupil of the eye which is given by the Rayleigh Criterion whereas Theta is going to be
the angular resolution and Lambda is going to be the wavelength of the light and D is the diameter
of the aperture so let's get into the results so using one Scott's initial density is going to be
about 1300 kilogram uh per meters cubed and when he shrunk it becomes about a lot higher okay so
it's about 3.64 times 10 to the 9 kilograms per meters cubed so his new density is now multiple
orders of magnitude greater than anything we encounter on Earth with basically the most dense
Metals only slightly exceeding 20 000 kilograms per meters cubed and that's 3.64 times 10 to the
9. so not only is his density pretty large but the pressure he's shrunken feet will apply to
whatever he's standing on it's also going to be pretty large so you know using two up here you can
calculate uh that uh the Full Source got exerts about 42 000 Newton uh Newtons per meter squared
right and then when he shrinks and you assume that his feet shrink by zero point uh seven one percent
as well the pressure he exerts when shrunk is about 8.4 times 10 so the eight Newtons per
meter squared this again is much larger than any pressure a human could normally exert and would
be pretty impractical because his legs would be applying more pressure than a high power water
jet looking that up at they apply about 6.2 bar which is 620 000 Newtons per meter square
and you know we just calculated it was the power of 8 which is a hundred million so that means he
would probably find himself sinking into the ground or breaking everything he stands on
uh basically his enormous weight compared to the things around him I gotta make it impossible for
him to ride an ant as we saw in the show it would be similar to him applying 844 Newtons onto the
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when I release that one which will be really soon and let's get back to the video so what we have
just calculated there my friends is that Ant-Man is actually in fact the strongest Avenger by a
lot finally let's look at the vision so if you take the diameter of the pupil to be about three
millimeters in the wavelength of life to be about 0.55 micrometers uh using three this one up here
the angular resolution of a human eye is about 2.24 times 10 to the negative 4 radians okay so
when where if Scott's pupil now has a diameter of 0.71 percent of three millimeters his minimum
angular resolution would become 0.0315 radians and so so through basic trigonometry it can
be deduced that his eye could not resolve two objects that were 15 centimeters apart
if they were only five meters away from him in conclusion whilst at first consideration
the ability to shrink oneself and retain their Mass sounds rather useful uh as we have shown
the practicality of such an ability is rather limited because you'd be constantly exerting
close to 10 to the nine Newtons per meter squared of pressure onto anything you touch and you know
the estimates we've calculated demonstrate the enormous effect shrinking would have on density
and ground pressure not only that but uh it's going to be hard for him to get around because
he's increased minimum annual resolution of this is going to make it pretty disorientating for him
so yeah very impractical but we have confirmed that Ant-Man is the strongest Avenger confirmed
set in stone uh I don't know if it's actually possible to shrink someone down to that size so
rest easy you can go see Ant-Man Quantum Mania and uh not be too worried about how unrealistic
it is and you now know you'll be watching the strongest Avenger confirmed set in stock