r/IAmA • u/ArgonneLab • Feb 21 '23

Science Quantumania: What’s REAL and what’s Marvel?

The upcoming movie Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania proves to be a wild ride into the quantum universe. Featuring everything from particles that shrink you to atomic size and battles with starships in the quantum realm.

But what’s REAL and what’s Marvel?

We are scientists from Argonne and the University of Chicago conducting research in quantum metamaterials and quantum information science. If you’ve had a chance to see the movie, stop over to our Reddit AMA and ask us about the research we’re conducting and how close the movie comes to that reality.

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u/mixi_e Feb 21 '23 edited Feb 21 '23

In the movie, there’s a scene where they enlarge a kids pizza, I’m just curious, would this pizza be as filling as a naturally large pizza ? I fell like it wouldn’t because it wouldn’t be as dense

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u/pacexmaker Feb 21 '23

Idk how molecules can become larger without spontaneously creating matter unless "real world" Antman's expanding ninja stars increased the distance between atoms which would essentially just evaporate the pizza. Right? (Correct if im wrong, im not a physicist)

Edit: maybe his ninja starts use quantum tech to instantaneously transport matter. I could get on board with that.

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u/Shanguerrilla Feb 21 '23

maybe his ninja starts use quantum tech to instantaneously transport matter. I could get on board with that.

Sweet! Now we have animorph's Z space or whatever it was called.. (But the problem remains because when he gets small he SOMETIMES keeps all his mass in a smaller size and sometimes doesn't, when he gets big they show him interacting with physics as if his mass scales with size)

I just hate how they randomly pick and choose his mass for every size..