Can a Magnifying Glass Destroy Ant-Man?

[@salemwildfire]

Hey Kyle, could the Empire State Building actually support the weight of King Kong? Godzilla episode got me thinking.

[@mr.stoneface7699]

I wish there was a way to send a reminder to myself to figure this out later, because this is one of those interesting problems I can lose an hour to. But right away, I can say that figuring out Kong's weight needs some kind of square/cube figuring. He's easily in the millions of kilos or pounds.

[@timross5351]

Gonna try this one. A literal 800 lb gorilla could be 6 feet tall. King Kong is 30-40 feet tall. if you double a gorilla's height to 12 feet, the mass multiplies by 8 and becomes roughly 4 tons. Double his height again to 24 feet and his weight becomes roughly 32 tons. One more doubling to 48 feet and his mass is around 250 tons. Now the Empire State buildings' lower floors can support much more than that in the load-bearing areas (365,000 tons), but I imagine the upper floors aren't designed to hold as much. Kong might be able to stand on the roof, but I am betting that any of the ledges or non-load-bearing areas of the building would crumble under his weight, especially as he ascended the building.

[@salemwildfire]

@@mr.stoneface7699 Oh I'm sure he's a very hefty boi!

[@salemwildfire]

@@timross5351 I sort of assumed the same, but I had hoped it was interesting enough of an idea to spark Kyle's interest. 😁

[@timross5351]

@@salemwildfire , Hopefully so!

[@iout]

0:21 There actually is one instance I can think of where Ant-man has faced off against a magnifying glass. In Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again, there's a quick panel showing Deadpool frying Ant-man to a crisp while pretending he's Sherlock Holmes. It's an alternate universe, but he does get killed by a magnifying glass.

[@leeman27534]

sorta funny, "ant man has faced a magnifying glass" "bet it was fucking deadpool. that's a touch of sadistic whimsy right there" "in 'deadpool kills the marvel universe again'..." "HA!"

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Thor: A magnifying glass will incinerate you! Ant-Man: YOU DON'T KNOW THAT Thor: *I'm the only one who knows that.*

[@izyaboi9844]

*Peter walks in with a magnifying glass*

[@Blazzes1001]

What would happen if someone collected all the photons that spread in every direction of a small dwarf star onto one point?

[@waddefaq4325]

Thanos: u not the only one who cursed by knowledge

[@Kotih]

@@Blazzes1001 aperently it makes a cool axe

[@cameronjosephvideos5942]

Thor: At least I'm the only one with the will to act on it *Vaporizes Ant Man*

[@KryptoSaiyan9001]

Hey Kyle, When Magneto runs he becomes an electric field. When Electro runs he becomes a magnetic field. How powerful would either characters be with their new superpower.

[@GuillermoANG]

i dont know hahahah u been trolled °D A B°

[@angelmorales8874]

Moment of silent for Anthony, Antoinet, Kevin DurAnt, Antonio, Antwon, Antero, and for Anti-vaxers

[@davidwanene1013]

I believe you forgot Ulysses S GrrAnt.

[@iriscorporation5447]

You should only use female names unless you burned a flying ant (and even if you did that it doesn't guarantee that you killed a male).

[@angelmorales8874]

@@iriscorporation5447 Antoinet isnt a female name?

[@sergiograndio577]

Lmao

[@valkyrieace5768]

Thank you

[@HBHaga]

"Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mister Lang, I expect you to fry!"

[@zeekeno823]

Ant man, does whatever an ant can, including die to a magnifying glass.

[@MotoCat91]

This was incredibly difficult to sing along to, but +1 for making me try anyway

[@kommentorpostker3911]

Ant man, Ant man, does whatever an ant can, including dying to a magnifying glass. He has an inconsistent mass, and he sneaks into Thanos's... L-lookout, here comes the Ant Man!

[@halamadruuid2380]

Ant-man, Ant-man Can do whatever an ant can, the size of an ant A smaller body but the same mass he can grow in size, a better sex with ant man he can grow his dick whenever he can he plunged into Thanos' asshole the moan reached 10 km max ANT-MAN YEEEEAAAHH! YEEEAAAH!!!! AAHHHHHHH!!!!!

[@Tasarran]

@@kommentorpostker3911 and he sneaks into Thanos's... Can? ;)

[@mobilegamingyeet3526]

He likes cap's ass

[@philipcollier4883]

7:56 not a correction just a missed opportunity to do a "Farenheit 451" reference 😁

[@aidanrogers4438]

9:35 Kyle, it’s fine. The ants pardon you. You’re officially pardoned. From life.

[@noahgormley4456]

I get that reference

[@kwezimashapa6425]

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 That line still kills me.

[@nt9382]

Oh My God!!! It smells like burned toast!!

[@Euthanasia-rc1pm]

That was a great line from Ragnarok!

[@donniemorrow]

Considering he keeps his same mass (and, I assume, cellular activity) how does heat-loss work when he gets small? People make about 100 Watts of metabolic heat energy on average, and Scott loses a lot of surface area when he gets tiny. With so little surface area, there's not nearly as many molecules of air whisking away his thermal energy. Assuming Scott goes down by a factor of 1000, the surface collision frequency of air molecules with his skin starts to approach that of outer space. Wait. Even more importantly for our calculations -- does this mean Scott is effectively a very tiny spaceship?? We also have to assume it works the other way when he gets huge. He'd need some really good insulation on his suit, or else sunny california would feel like a brisk winter to him

[@benwardwell1715]

Oooh this is an interesting point! Normally when things get smaller they get lighter too, and the surface area is a square function but the volume is a cube function. Basically this means the smaller something gets, the more surface area it has for its mass, so it actually gets easier to shed heat (mice actually can suffer hypothermia while under anesthesia for this reason). But if Scott keeps the same mass when he shrinks he really would have an issue with heat dispersal; the heat from his own metabolism would even be a problem if he gets small enough!

[@philiptite1082]

This is a fascinating question and I'd love to hear what Kyle has to say, but with the growth to giant-size, if I recall the comics correctly, Pym (and later Lang and others using Pym particles) gains mass from some other dimension when he grows. As for when he shrinks, I think the "keeps mass" is a short cut explanation for why he maintains the strength of a normal sized human. But if he temporary loses/stores away excess mass in that other dimension when he shrinks to ant size, would he be able to maintain his physical strength and abilities? I'm also wondering if there are negative consequences if Lang keeps his mass when he shrinks. What happens to him with increased density?

[@oafkad]

Starting to think that Kyle might have murdered some ants. Just a hunch. I used my incredible deductive skills here.

[@cherrydragon3120]

I think many of us did at some point in our life.

[@oafkad]

@@cherrydragon3120 Ants never suffered my wrath. But I do recall doing mean things to slugs a few times that I regret.

[@beccag2758]

I don't think I've ever burned an ant... alive. I have burned a dead moth though, smells horrible don't recommend at all.

[@becausescience]

This is my apology to all ants -- kH

[@chadfalardeau9162]

I never burned ants, but I did squish them.

[@icenic_wolf]

I have always assumed that Ant Man's biggest enemy would be himself, or more specifically, the internal heat that he has to somehow vent despite his exterior surface area shrinking considerably. Something something thermodynamics something...?

[@izyaboi9844]

There is a simpler soultion to burn antman........ *grabs lighter and bugspray*

[@cherrydragon3120]

*OR ANY FLAMMABLE LIQUID/GAS*

[@Cscuile]

Or just use bug spray hehe

[@r3d_d3d64]

Trust me axe body spray is like an absolute flamethrower

[@auri1075]

I threw water at an electric stove of these when i was little, but i forgot about flammable things and threw deodorant at it in hopes it would make the tssss sound.... never got so surprised in my life.

[@fighteer1]

Still wouldn’t work if he retains human mass while shrunk. His much lower surface area would mean he absorbs way less energy per second. He’d be fine. Of course, the same would apply to oxygen transfer across the Pym field, his ability to dissipate internal heat, and so many, many other things that it only serves to illustrate just how ludicrous Ant Man is from a scientific perspective.

[@kondekt]

I noticed a big development of visual aspect of the episodes. You are using a lot more effects and a montage is becoming really really good. Your episodes are becoming more dynamic and eye-catching. Did you change the visual director or the old one grew up ?;) Ant-Man is probably tottaly invulnerable to heat damage due to the unspoken abilities of his suit. When he shrinks with "a particle that could shorten the distance between atoms " he basically compress himself. So according to thermodynamics his temperature is rising very quickly to very high values (as we consider the values when human could survive). So my hypothesis is that his suit has to be extremely efficient device that is conducting heat from or to Ant-Man when needed in order to keep him alive. To be so fracking efficient it has to be absolutely cosmic-scale insulating and has a system of energy transport that will be jaw-breaking even for thanos and his supeduper tech team. According to this I assume that the only way to kill Ant-Man with sun is to put the sun into his butt or something similar;)

[@Daw3D]

Storm beaker needed the power of a magnifying glass to be made 😂👌

[@aceplayer555]

Kyle, would it work the other way around? If Ant-Man grew huge but kept his weight, and you used a magnifying glass on his big toe, would it slice it off like a tiny laser?

[@jenm1]

Yes, it would be even easier. He’s less dense

[@Troglodytemtg]

@@jenm1 if he keeps his mass he shouldn't be shaking the ground in the movies though right?

[@UncleSilverGaming]

While this video was about vaporizing Ant-man completely, I'm curious how long it would take to simply raise his temperature to the point of death.

[@tach-uq5tw]

At full mass it'd still aproximate a year I think

[@JubeiKibagamiFez]

Actually, whatever temperature normal humans die at when a fever gets to high or maybe something more plausible like heat stroke. I'd say core temp would only have to reach 115F for a human to die. Then if you consider that, what would the core temp have to be to cause unconsciousness. Once unconscious, Ant-Man would be done for.

[@JubeiKibagamiFez]

Vaporizing doesn't really happen to ants anyway when the get burnt by a magnifying glass. Insect insides are mostly liquid, so they just shrivel up. The temp at the focal point would have to literally be as hot as the Sun to vaporize instantly. Technically, during burning, gradual vaporization happen, but not instant.

[@adamxue6096]

We are also not very sure on how good is his Suit, because his suit can get him into some serious conditions without any problems or with minor problems, *_including the quantum realm_* , it seems like it has some ridiculous properties. So we aren't really sure about that either.

[@JubeiKibagamiFez]

@@adamxue6096 True, but how harmful would those conditions be, other than lack of oxygen and food? At a sub-atomic, there's no weather, radiation might not even be a problem because the neutrons would be to large to ionize antman's own atoms, but then according to Hank Pim, Antman shouldn't be able to shrink sub-atomic anyway, but for arguements sake, we'll say Pim Particals do actually change the density of atomic and sub-atomic particles.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

the only issue is that there's something odd going on with Ant Man's density because some times he's as light as an ant and other times he hits people with the force of a full grown man in a metal suit, his mass is just not consistantly portrayed

[@MarkJetronValencia]

What would happen to Ant-Man under a magnifying glass?? Kyle: Gone, reduced to atoms

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Atom Ant-Man?

[@halamadruuid2380]

@@MonkeyJedi99 Captain Atom and Ant-Man simple

[@owendavies8405]

Men will know, “Grab your ruler and your magnifying glass.”

[@GoinGreninja]

A D joke? Interesting...

[@jackyoung8354]

I get the ruler but whats the magnifying glass?

[@GoinGreninja]

@@jackyoung8354 to see someone's small dick

[@stranger6822]

I'd be most worried about his eyes. If someone focused sunlight on him with a magnifying glass, he may be tempted to look up at what's burning him, at which point his eyes would take all of that heat and concentrated light. If staring at the sun is bad for you, then staring into a concentrated beam of sunlight is much worse. I'm not sure if his red-tinted goggles would be enough to protect him (they may function a bit like a welding mask, in which case he might be unharmed). That said, I'm happy to say that I couldn't find numbers for how long it takes to permanently blind a person with a magnifying glass.

[@jakubratz8043]

W8 a moment Kyle... If the shrinked ant-man has all of his mass, like you say, how its possible, that he can ride on ants???

[@MiniBeas]

Would Tony stark break his finger flicking Ant Man?

[@izyaboi9844]

*visible confusion*

[@waddefaq4325]

The real question is; how the fck antman's bones doesn't break when tony flick him

[@stephendonovan9084]

Answer: it literally only depends on whether the movie needs Tony Stark to break a finger. Ant-Man don’t give a fuck about your “rules” and “logical consistency”.

[@PrachirNathETC]

@@waddefaq4325 If Antman keeps his mass, he would go THROUGH Tony's shoulders.

[@halamadruuid2380]

@@stephendonovan9084 Ant-man is very sharp, he can run and try to punch someone's head, not realizing he kept the mass, and he made a hole on the poor guy's head

[@glitchinthecode]

if we are only 8 light minutes away from the sun, than that means that the sunrise that I saw this morning actually happened 8 minutes before I actually saw it. wow.

[@Jesse_359]

Oh god, all the screaming ant-souls. They come for me too... :0

[@Kotih]

i cant tell them apart from the screams of the ones im still burning

[@skylx0812]

Hives churn em out by the dozens. Your fine. Ever watch drones haul out dead or injured ants from an ant hole and just leave em at the outer parimeter of the hill? Now that is sad.

[@CraneoHR]

I've slain so many ants

[@TeronGer]

Korne is proud of your slaughter.

[@Dr_Andracca]

If it is fire ants, you should feel bad for *not* burning them. Fire ants are an invasive species that attack native species. Do your part by burning a fire ant colony today! Would you like to know more?

[@ludvercz]

Fun fact: pretty much all ants you ever burned were daughters of a widowed single mother who relied on them to support her.

[@zuko1569]

Iron Man used SolarBeam! It was very effective! _Ant-Man burnt to a crisp!_

[@kamikazexd11]

grass type move is not very effective agaist bug types

[@PrachirNathETC]

Why tf are you everywhere?

[@halamadruuid2380]

If the sun can't burn him, well, God's hotness can

[@Ryantiisnllallksksks]

You said that the moon isn't hot enough to burn stuff. But the moon is just acting like a giant mirror for sunlight, it isn't generating any light itself. There are two effects decreasing the temperature of "moonlight". The albedo of the moon decreases the amount of light coming off of the moon. Second the moon isn't always reflecting the light directly at the earth. However, if you could somehow collect the light bouncing off of the moon and concentrate it, it would still be at the same temperature as the surface of the sun. Because ultimately it is sunlight whose direction has changed and become more diffuse. Hope this makes it in footnotes, if not my comment then one similar!

[@mateusz.krzemyk7154]

If Ant-Man can shrink but keep his normanl weight then how small would he have to get, to get as dense as sun? (Or denser)

[@erbgorre]

the sun isnt actually all that dense. its super massive but also really, really big aka voluminous. i think tiny ant man with full human mass would be A LOT denser than the sun

[@mateusz.krzemyk7154]

@@erbgorre maybe then he could get as dense as a neutron start unless he crushes himself into neutrons🤔

[@mateusz.krzemyk7154]

I mean the neutron star at 25km diameter weights over twice the Sun in our solar system

[@erbgorre]

@@mateusz.krzemyk7154 i calculated in response to someone else that at average ant size with his full human weight, hed be at a density of ~7 million Kg/dm³, which is indeed denser than even the highest postulated density i could find for the core of the sun. the sun on average has a density of around 1.4 Kg/dm³ apparently, which is only 1.4 times that of water (or us, approximately). even 7 million would still be many orders of magnitutes shy of neutron star level density, tho. if he shrunk down to sub-microscopic size while still retaining his full mass somehow, then we might actually get there. which goes to illustrate just how ludicrously dense a neutron star is, i suppose -.-

[@Xenon_001]

@@erbgorre The core of the sun:

[@gwenresulta1470]

it’s amazing how this channel clearly explains theoretical possibilities, but also factors in the canon abilities of marvel characters that could subvert scientific expectations. i learn a lot! thank you for such interesting content!

[@Chrismas815]

Kyle: always answering the questions I didn’t know I had

[@infidel1993]

Here’s a useless but interesting factoid for you: if Scott Lang retains his mass regardless of size (roughly 78kg, plus some arbitrary value for the weight of his suit), and shrinks down to a height of approximately 1.158442816e-13 picometers, he would be swallowed up by his own event horizon and become a gravitational singularity.

[@emmanuelbrioche6582]

Wild Ant Man Appears. Kyle calls Magnifying Glass Magnifying Glass uses focused light It's Ineffective!

[@chris-.-sinn]

Correction: The diagram at 1:55 of the convex lens shows light getting refracting from pole (central point of lens on principal axis) It shouldn't happen, light doesn't refract while passing from pole, should maintain straight line...

[@becausescience]

Yeah that was simply my fault for not being able to draw straight. Apologies for any confusion -- kH

[@chris-.-sinn]

@@becausescience I kinda knew that was the case still pointed out cuz the community interaction is so fun >:)

[@firehellrain]

Finally all those physics classes I took in school about refraction of light in glass and mirrors have a meaning.

[@MaxStache]

The really scary thing about Ant-Man that I don't think you've discussed yet through your many Ant-Man related videos is the whole "Retains his mass" bit. If we go off the idea that Ant-Man can retain his mass as he changes size, then when he goes subatomic he would exceed his schwartzchild radius and become a black hole... Using some Google averages and assuming my math is right: Mass of human = 70kg Constant of Gravity (acceleration of gravity) using average height (diameter) of 69in = GM/r² = 6.08*10⁻⁹ Shcwartzchild Radius = rₛ = 2GM / c2² = 9.35*10⁻¹⁸ He'd have to go 18x smaller than a Hydrogen Atom, but in the first Ant-Man film during the scene where he goes subatomic you see him shrink WAY past the size of an atom. If he does indeed keep his Mass when he shrinks, then yeah, he'd turn into a black hole...

[@lelelekop]

I can't believe you didn't do a "This is fine" meme reference. SMH

[@smiley_1000]

I can't believe you've done this.

[@Sacremas]

He didn't do a "perfectly balanced" joke with the magnifying glass either, so close also...

[@bradleymathie1167]

Less meme = more respect

[@ryancostner1798]

Hey Kyle, I was just wondering, since we are so far from the sun, wouldn’t the reason the photons appear parallel be simply because it is only the photons which are already coming this direction are the ones that hit us? So therefore, if we were right next to the sun, shouldn’t we still be able to focus light since the photons which would be parallel are still going to be present regardless?

[@joakimhansen7733]

Dang it! There goes my discount super villan plan.

[@cricerysth7431]

If Antman keeps his mass then he would become incredibly dense, right? Would he be nearly impervious to physical damage at that point? How would he be effected if someone were to shoot him?

[@Falcodrin]

True he would be taking the force of a bullet with a large amount of his body. It likely wouldn't even slow him down just sting a little.

[@the88thdarcstar]

So if we had a big enough magnifying glass we could melt steel... Huh

[@nilaksh3226]

Yup

[@LEMMYKISGOD]

Cool.

[@maskedredstonerproz]

not just steel , any metal on earth

[@the88thdarcstar]

@@maskedredstonerproz I totally understand that, but I was just researching steel yesterday

[@Falcodrin]

Search KZbin for fresnel lens burner

[@sexysamurai6151]

The movie end game shows how resilient his suit is when he get hit by a energy blast from Thanos ship. Can you measure how hot the energy blast from Thanos ship is?

[@B_aka_Scias]

6:06 Lens seller, I need your strongest magnifying glass

[@a-blivvy-yus]

Now I want to see Antman get rekt by Lensman

[@bab1ell1e]

thor: do you understand boy you are going to take a small force of a star it will kill you ant man: only if i die thor yes that what killing you means

[@Blinkehyo]

Kyle's shirt was blue in the immortality video

[@Tuuvas]

When you say a bed of nails @ 7:40, do you mean more like... a pile of nails vs a single nail? My first thought was one of those evenly spaced bed of nails you can lay on without getting poked

[@BSJINTHEHOUSE420]

Ant-Man: *opens umbrella*

[@andergarcia9228]

I think an umbrella would melt

[@gjustin31]

If we had a giant magnifying glass in space would it be like a laser that can burn anything on the surface of the Earth? Or would we need multiple glass to magnify the effects more?

[@stuartpratt3662]

well in theory that would work but practically it will not

[@Ryantiisnllallksksks]

Nah man, Lasers have coherent waves. That's why you can't see laser pointers from the side but you can see flashlights and light being focused down to a point like a cone. Essentially you have photons leaking out of the sides of the path. With lasers no leakage.

[@TheNativeEngine]

Just what are you planning, villain?

[@NeinKyori]

Justin Garcia Focal length of magnifying glasses are usually very short so it won't be an effective weapon. You can add a concave len to turn the focus light into a parallel long range burning beam of destruction, but good luck finding a len that won't melt in seconds

[@sinfulwrath666]

Kyle mentioned in some episodes that Ant-man can become a black hole because of his matter being compressed but doesn't become one. What if the magnifying glass can trigger that black hole idea of yours Kyle? Can the magnifying glass trigger the Ant-man blackhole by adding enough energy to him?

[@jmcmc2209]

3:54 when he feels the sweet embrace of death again only to be denied by the camera cutting to the next screen

[@benwardwell1715]

Kyle! Love the show. Quick correction: you said you couldn't light a fire with moonlight using a lens but that actually isn't true, the "temperature" of moonlight is still plenty hot enough, since it is originally emitted off of the sun and only reflected off of the moon. What you're referencing is the fact that for an object which gives off light because it is hot (black-body radiation), that light can't raise the temperature of another object higher than the temperature of the object which emitted it. For example, the red light emitted from hot steel could only heat up another object to the temperature of that steel; however, a cold mirror can still reflect sunlight onto another object to make it hot. So while you definitely couldn't use a new moon to light a fire, with a full moon and a big enough lens it would be possible to use moonlight (reflected sunlight) to achieve very high temperatures (with the theoretical max temp being the same as the surface of the sun again). (Also disclaimer I'm a biologist and I 100% had to look this up: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/140927/is-it-possible-to-start-fire-using-moonlight) (Also also I'm still salty you never took my correction about radiation poisoning from your fallout footnotes video but I love you anyway :)

[@banderi002]

I see the distinction on mirrors and black-body emission but I'm still confused by the temperature point; isn't "temperature" just a measure of thermal energy density? Surely, if you grab *all* the emission of any black-body and dump it all into a small enough point - say, a single molecule - the density of the kinetic energy would be higher at that point than it would across the black-body surface on average, wouldn't it? What am I missing in my assumption?

[@benwardwell1715]

@@banderi002 Honestly I'm not sure... Did some quick searching but I couldn't figure it out (this wikipedia page is nice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation). The equation Q = A*E*F is limited in E (stars have a maximum temperature --> emission density) and F (all of the light is all of the light), but A is only limited by how big a star could get. So yeah I don't see why a huge hot star with lenses and/or mirrors couldn't concentrate light to a small point to get something hotter than the star itself. But another equation has a (T1 - T2) as a coefficient for the overall heat transfer, which seems to indicate the heat transfer is reversed if one thing gets hotter than the other, regardless. But I don't really get why that is; like maybe all the paths of light from the theoretical point would hit the theoretical star (via the lenses etc. which direct the stars light to the point) but I don't see why that would matter. Like the overall output at one end (the star) will still be bigger than the other (the point) even if the point is hotter, so I don't see why lenses etc. can't be used to funnel the energy to make it hotter at the point. So I really don't know. I'm also very unqualified to answer that question (but it was fun to try!)

[@Benjy-uh9zs]

(Forgot to switch off my google account before I posted... oops)

[@gokusleftshoe5948]

Did you take into account the energy needed to convert his state of matter for liquid to gas? Cause that would bring the time up quite a bit

[@becausescience]

yep -- kH

[@rafaynoman1180]

Mom: Go to sleep. Me: But I'm learning if I could burn Antman with a magnifying glass. Mom:...………. Yellow Jacket: *walks in* honey let the boy study.

[@Mike504]

Magnifying glass and rulers, isle 10, left side about half way down. Staples Brighton Michigan.

[@beardeddemon]

Just an off-topic comment... In your biological immortality video, you said we wouldn't remember. But I do! Your shirt was blue! Because Immortal Science!

[@twice1962]

Marty Bourgeois I would theorise that (for the most part) the reason you remember it, is because your attention was brought to it. By saying “you wont remember the colour of my shirt”, immediately you look at his shirt and take notice of it. If the posed comment was “you dont remember the colour of my shirt last week”, most people probably wouldnt remember. Example, can you remember the colour of the first Marker that Kyle used in the immortality episode?

[@richielavey1565]

What if to shrink and keep his mass ant mans suit shrinks every atom in his body individually would that affect these numbers? Would the sunlight also shrink after entering his suite, would it make a difference either way?

[@SeantheBawse]

Coo episode! If only the Pym particles were more consistent.

[@DickDiamond74]

Even Reed Richards has unstable molecules.

[@f.d.animelegoman6430]

Can you please cover the science behind the myths and legends of Giants and is it possible for a way for humans and animals to evolve into Giants and if so what sacrifices would have to be made for both humans and animals

[@ivingegacy2330]

If tiny ant man held up a tiny mirror would he be able to send it back

[@erbgorre]

pretty much. any highly reflective surface would be fine up to a certain point. in the footage of the super lense melting the metal screw towards the end you can see, though, that there will be limits to that strategy unless you manage to completely reflect the full 100% of the incoming sunlight. which i dont believe a mirror can actually do.

[@liquidrock2u]

You might not be able to evaporate Antman but you can definitely give him crazy heatstroke.

[@leonidas8513]

So could you say it is a laser?? Btw great video ❤️

[@UltraBatshift]

Does anyone else have a weird glitch at 4:02 where the video is messed up, but if I rewind closer to 4:05 it's fine? This is the second video I saw this on. Is it KZbin or my video card?

[@PaleGhost69]

Ok, nerd moment. Since it's almost the season for Nuptial flights in most species of ants, I wonder how Ant man relates to other ants. Does he get harassed by a bunch of female Alates or attacked by other male Alates fighting for competition? Does he die after mating like male ants? Ok, I know he doesn't get his power _from_ ants but still. Happy queen hunting to all my fellow ant lovers out there! AntLoveForever!

[@WillPower311]

¡Light Minutes! ¡Bad ASS!

[@jaredcarter1165]

Hi effect of the MCU was MAGNIFICENT. I WANNA HEAR YOU SAY IT

[@Yickerd]

Well, I think that, since the atoms are just being pushed closer together, Scott’s skin and his suit would become much denser, making it harder for light to get through his suit/skin. However, his doesn’t always seem to be how he shrinks, but I think they said this in ant man.

[@akumaking1]

Couldn't Thanos just fart to kill Ant Man?

[@unholycrusader69]

he wears a helmet...

[@waddefaq4325]

No, that will make an easy way to antman go inside him. U know what i mean.

[@auri1075]

He wouldnt be millions of times more masive, he would be millions of times more dense...

[@zaneyoshikawa-heilpern8523]

can someone break someones arm by squeezing it? like in hunter x hunter

[@joshuarichardson6529]

If you can generate enough force you can. How much is needed depends on if you're trying to rip cartilage or literally break bone.

[@Ramiromasters]

3:46 Actually it would work just as well focusing those parallel rays and in fact the ray would be stronger because of the proximity of Sun. However, the light dot (focal point) would look more diffuse as there is more diffuse light as well as parallel rays going through the magnifying glass... Kyle you know this...

[@arf3497]

So basically, we just need to get Ant-man in the focal point at one of those times Marvel wants ignore physics. How dare you be scientifically inconsistent Marvel!

[@defsnot]

Yo, Kyle. Love the show. Quick question, would Ant-Man even be able to see when he goes tiny or quantum? I'm no physicist but, I think i heard somewhere that light particles wouldn't even be able to fit into an eye that small and instead would just see darkness or some sort of strobe light kind of effect. Thoughts?

[@infiniteaseem6523]

Well yes, you could easily kill Ant-Man with a magnifying glass... Just crush him with it

[@BristonTerry]

Actually if ant mans mass doesn't change this would be near impossible

[@infiniteaseem6523]

@@BristonTerry not if I made my magnifying glass outta diamond. I hope. 😅

[@infiniteaseem6523]

@@BristonTerry also, it wouldn't be quite so impossible. Just because he's incredibly dense doesn't mean he's not still a little squishy. A lot tougher but still a little squishy. Sure the helmet may be hard to damage but I think we can still crush Scotty if we attacked the torso.

[@chris_hanson7936]

If Ant Man really maintained his mass while shrinking, his density would become so great, he would create his own gravity well. Allow me to explain: Using the mass of an average squishy human of about 70 kg and the volume of an average ant of about 10 cubic mm, his density would be about 7x10^9 kg/m^3. Now, it looks like you used the dimensions of one of the smallest ants in the world (the Pharaoh ant) for the episode and they have a volume of about 0.016 cubic mm, which would give a density of about 4.375x10^12 kg/m^3. This would place Ant Man's density somewhere between a white dwarf star and a neutron star. Love the show Kyle, keep up the great work!

[@HeckMayster.]

So like with many of these episodes. Yes BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT. Also no

[@becausescience]

Reality is often disappointing -- kH

[@Hope_IsNotMyName]

It ant man got that small and still had the same mass, he would not be able to stand on anything less dense than he because of the small surface area. Also, he would turn into a black hole. Therefore, you have to assume that his mass changes when he shrinks. Also I love the show,and I am a huge fan.

[@halamadruuid2380]

No, unless he shrinks into an atomic level, also it wouldn't break just make a hole because his small focal point, and kept his mass, he is basically a heavy knife, as he is sharp

[@halamadruuid2380]

YOU HAVE A SWORD? HAHA, I HAVE A SMALL THROWING KNIFE, *THROWS* SCOTT: *INCREASE HIS MASS* GUY: *DIED*

[@daviddoesgaming9856]

Fourth but idc , this is first in my day

[@ultimasdragon7840]

I'm glad you put not to scale on the sun and earth because I was about to be really confused. Also glad you told me to get adult supervision to use a ruler, I had almost forgot last time I put an eye out. (Awesome episode btw)

[@deathtaco-dp2wf]

First

[@alysaronda]

LMAO

[@tomlanphen]

third (;

[@cautics2147]

Nice episode as always, but where is the title at the beginning of the video?, i mean normally in the episodes it begins with a short introduction to then show the tittle of the episode, which i thought would appear with the fire at 0:44, so is it just me who is missing it?, or is the void already consuming my soul

[@isaacburr3074]

Ant-Man: falls on tile and breaks it Also Ant-Man five minutes later: rides ant Because science

[@pablosotopower]

Hi Kyle! how are you? A building in London (it was in London?. UK for sure) Melt cars and crack sideways because it has glass in the walls and with a convex form. Also, I pyrography wood with a magnifying glass. No correction, just random facts

[@Djalmanac]

I usually audio listen so this opening is a big surprise to me. Epic stuff man!

[@GFCOLCQuote]

6:08 YOU CANNOT HANDLE MY MAGNIFYING GLASSES, TRAVELER. MY MAGNIFYING GLASSES ARE TOO STRONG FOR YOU.

[@indygoWuff]

What would actually happen if you were slowly getting closer to the sun, I know that you would eventually be insinerated, but it's not like you are going to burst into flames in space without an atmosphere right?

[@mr.knightthedetective7435]

I have a better idea. Hit with Arctic Spyder 3 laser or with a laser *much* more powerful.

[@vinny8589]

Hey Kyle I have a question..Why don't Kai blasts from the Dragon Ball universe (Z, S, etc.) blow up the earth when kai blasts collide with something, someone, or against other kai blasts..actually for that matter what the heck is a kai blast made of to do that kind of damage or fast is moving to cause it?? try figuring out that 20yr old mystery if you can.

[@petalkeys6669]

Kyle: "The moon just isn't hot enough." Moon: *offended gasp*

[@IgneusDei2]

Great video as always! While a magnifying glass won't do the trick, I think that heat could still be his undoing. The human body does a great job of maintaining a balance of temperature, shedding enough heat to the air to prevent our metabolism from cooking us from the inside out without losing so much that our internal body temperature is incapable of doing it's normal functions. However, when Ant Man shrinks, his surface area drops, reducing the rate at which he loses heat to the air (convective cooling transfer: Q=hA(Tf-T)). Being smaller, he would have less air around him to take heat, so it would be like normal-sized Ant Man being in the near vacuum of space. Assuming that he has a normal surface area of 1.7m^2 and drops to a surface area of 1cm^2, his rate of heat transfer drops to around 0.006% his normal convective heat transfer rate. As such, if his body continues metabolizing at the same rate (2000 Cal/day), his body temperature would grow quickly to dangerous levels simply by shrinking. Presumably, growing too large would cause a similar effect but in reverse, chilling him down to dangerously close to room temperature. Somewhat related, I have heard that this is a limiting factor for warm-blooded animals' size. Because volume scales faster than surface area, if an animal doesn't have enough surface area to shed the heat generated from its insides, then it will die. Ant Man would suffer the same fate unless he had some other way of shedding the heat such has having radiator panels like the ISS uses that allow him to shine away his heat through IR radiation or having a system like the ones used by astronauts' space suits who cannot convect in the vaccum of space by running coolant that could sublimate heat away.

[@brent6855]

I've looked everywhere but i can't seem to find anything to answer my question. If you focus the light with a magnifying glass into another magnifying glass, does it result in the same temperature?

[@just__mate]

5:00 what about being in a black hole? Or to be more specific the event horizon. Couldn't you see light from a star from all directions, assuming it is close enough without being torn apart by the gravitational forces,because light (maybe even some light from a couple thousand years ago) might be bent towards you? BTW love your show. Edit for time stamp correction

[@GrowingAnswers]

I have had to explain this concept to people several times. I have a giant fresnel lens that can melt steel with the sun. So other people immediately started arbitrarily coming up with ideas (after they saw it in action) like using it to heat a pool. NO! all a lens is doing to taking the light that is already there and redirecting it to a smaller spot. It doesn’t add any more heat than the area it collects light from. So if you want to heat a pool, just put a black tarp on it. If you want to add more heat, run the pool water through black tubing coiled up on a flat surface in sunlight. Setting up magnifying glasses that have to track the sun and that focus light on a metal tube with water flowing through it, is a way over engineered and inefficient way of heating water using the sun. Because Science.

[@HuyV]

But if he retains his mass, why can they lift a whole building when it is shrunk and put inside a car?

[@MrPointness]

Because as Kyle said, how the power works "flip flops in the movie". It's extremely inconsistent. Things sometimes keep their mass while shrinking, sometimes they lose, almost always gain a helluva lot of mass while growing, always conveniently to fit the story ... It's the only reason I can't enjoy those movies :/

[@feroexe7965]

6:05 what brand of glasses u use kyle?

[@christiaanventer8183]

(Kyle holding the magnifying glass) "I can see your will is strong, but we have ways of making you talk!"

[@szlingozec8395]

The thing about heat/temperature is that it is actually made of motion. Temperature is dependent on the kinetic energy of the particles in a substance. And molecules can absorb energy through internal motion because many atomic bonds act springlike allowing atoms to move relative to one another as well as though regular "move across the room" motion (sorry don't know the proper name for it). Therefore while ordinarily the properties of molecules do not fluctuate relative to mass making mass a good proxy for the amount of heat absorbing capacity a given amount of a given material will have, I am not sure that everything will scale neatly in a Pym-ajusted molecule (using the shoulder riding version of Ant-Man which would almost certainly need to have adjusted mass). Furthermore we have no reason to assume that it is actually the temperature/heat of particles that causes chemical and physical reactions, in the real world there is no way to adjust the amount of energy a molecule or set of molecules have relative to the particles and to the mass of the particles independently. For example if we have some water molecules that have been Pym-adjusted to be 1% the size/mass of normal water molecules and normal water molecules both traveling across a room at speed [V1] in this case (disregarding internal motion for the moment) the Pym-adjusted molecules will have only 1% the kinetic energy (aka temperature) of the normal ones, if we increase the speed of the Pym-adjusted molecules to 2[V1] they now have 4% the kinetic energy of the normal ones but that's 4X the energy/mass ratio. So what happens? Assuming that the normal particles are at 50 degrees C are the Pym-adjusted ones frozen in both cases?, liquid at speed [V1] and hot steam at speed 2[V1]?, is 1% 50 degrees cold enough to become a Boise-Einstein condensate?? And that's not even considering how the spring constants of the atomic bonds and the distances that the atoms are able to move will be effected.

[@kyiore]

Great episode! Shout out to the editors doing the crazy stuff we see every week!

[@daikhairai7194]

does this mean that if your were further away from a sun than the rays would be so much more parallel that you could possibly use that light for industrial applications? preferably an even hotter sun because if you have the option of doing what i think would work than why not go for higher efficiency and equal or grater strength.

[@arcaneclockwork6470]

if antman shrunk down to about 1E-25 meters, he'd form into a black hole. problem with that is that the radius of just a single proton is 1E-15...

[@stephendonovan9084]

Well yes, but only if the movie wanted him to. Otherwise I’m sure everyone is just fine.

[@Killerean]

Well in technicality, if we consider what's happening with Antman during his shrinking, he should burn every time he shrinks. On that same note, he should freeze every time he gets to his normal size. This is caused by the fact that while Antmans size is varying, the amount of energy withing his body is not (or at least it's not established). That means that the energy spread across the human body to maintain it at 37 degrees C, remains constant in the shrinking. But now, that same energy is stored at significantly smaller space and so is concentrated to that spot, increasing its temperature, proportional to the new size of the object. Should the new size of antman than be 1/100 of his original size, his new temperature will be 3700 degrees C or as following tab shows: 1000/1 = -370 or literally beyond cold. 100/1 = -37 10/1 = 3.7 1/1 = 37 1/10 = 370 1/100 = 3700 1/1000 = 37000 hotter than the surface of the sun. I'm not exactly certain about the scale of the cold side but I'm fairly sure about the hot side.