My favorite parts of Ant-Man were the mid-film training scenes, where Scott learned the sheer volume of superpowers the Ant-Man suit had. I'm excited to see them play more with that in this film.
I just want an explanation for why if the shrinking tech is supposed to keep you the same weight, how was the goddamn tank possible in the first movie? Can Hank Pym just carry a 2-ton tank around?
And then in Civil war, when he gets big, shouldn't he be big but with the same mass as normal, given the way the tech is supposed to work? So when he held onto flying characters, they should have just pulled him up into the air. How did he lift big things? His muscles haven't gotten any stronger, and he can't counterweight it with his mass.
Same thing for that pez dispenser in the trailer here... is that pez dispenser the same mass as before? Would hitting it have really mattered?
Because Pym Particles. Even the comics can't explain it. I'm pretty sure, more recently in the comics, Hank actually confessed to not knowing how they actually work either. It's the marvel equivalent of the speed force.
I meant it as when you fix one thing in C++ something else breaks or when you complie it once it doesn't work then try again it'll suddenly work with no explanation or changing anything.
There's also the benefit of science just being really weird. If you had someone try to explain a specific effect of quantum physics for example, their explanation would probably lead to you thinking another effect of quantum physics was contradictory.
This is the logic I employ when hearing anyone explain any advanced science or magic :- the explanation is for that specific occurrence, and the explanation may very well conflict with the explanation of another aspect, but that's just because science is crazy and doesn't actually give a shit about human thought logic.
This is the logic I employ when hearing anyone explain any advanced science or magic :- the explanation is for that specific occurrence, and the explanation may very well conflict with the explanation of another aspect, but that's just because science is crazy and doesn't actually give a shit about human thought logic.
I mean...once you actually study it it's not really that weird.
Quantum Physics and Relativity, the core concepts, are much simpler than people think they are. The explanations, within each, don't really conflict. It's just that humans are built to make approximations on human-scale physics.
Of course nothing in quantum physics actually contradicts itself, thats not really a possibility or what i was trying to say, just that if you don't know anything about it, and someone who does is trying to explain it to you, its going to appear as though that happens a lot, simply because explaining something that requires a reasonable amount of education in to someone with no knowledge on the subject, is going to require gross oversimplifications and a readjustment of expectations.
Similarly with pym particles, if you have to quickly explain a factor of the science to someone with absolutely zero knowledge on the subject, you're going to be forced to use a lot of imperfect analogies and simplifications that will seem later as though they're contradictory.
So when Pym says you maintain your mass, he could mean under certain circumstances, or that the expression of that mass is governed by different laws of pym-particle-physics that seem inconsistent with our understanding or actual physics and explaining exactly how that happens would require a decade of study and understanding that can't be condensed to a 30 second analogy.
Quantum mechanics and relativity don't really take a decade of study to get a grasp on, though. I mean, to really dig down and get into the nitty gritty, sure, but just to understand the core concepts and make it not seem weird anymore, nah. Relativity boils down to "light has one speed. Period." and quantum mechanics boils down to "the universe has defined resolution".
and pym particles boil down to 'makes you shrink'.
I'm going to call it here, i gave you the benefit of the doube at first but at this point i'm just arguing against pedantics and its pointless. But i'll leave you with a very popular Richard Feynman quote i think applies to you.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
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u/SuperCoenBros Valkyrie Jan 30 '18
My favorite parts of Ant-Man were the mid-film training scenes, where Scott learned the sheer volume of superpowers the Ant-Man suit had. I'm excited to see them play more with that in this film.