Amph The Science Fiction , fact or fiction thread.

In this thread we discuss areas of Science Fiction that may have some truth in them. For example Thor's hammer why no one can lift it but him.
Wired did a piece on it.
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/can-hulk-lift-thors-hammer/

My question involves the Flash, What exactly would be the effects of him running around on his environment and the people around him. Would his speed create a whirl of air when he leaves a room?

 

I think that article missed the real question, if Mjolnir was forged in the heart of a neutron star, which is really damn dense and weighs twelve thousand trillion pounds, what would it do to the Earth's gravitational field? My guess is bad things.

 

beezel what the **** are you doing?

 

beezel what the **** are you doing?

 

I have another example. Die Another Day, while filled with ideas like space lasers and genetic reconstruction, accurately depicted the fact that the James Bond franchise is at its root a deeply childish endeavor that only really appeals to people stimulated by bloodlust and plain lust.

 

That's completely off-topic, Wocky. Don't do that again.

 

Forged in the heart of the star doesn't mean the same density. Just the same pressure, for all we know the original material it was forged from was less dense then it was now. Plus the Neutron star is mearly a blast furnace. But its possible using said neutron star to produce the material because you would end up using other materials and metals to give it its strength and particular structure.

 

The force is like, you know, how we're all connected. Like, we're all made of star stuff, man. And that's kinda like the force. Man. Yeah. Permeating. All encompassing. Ya know? Ya dig?

 

Beezel, this is gibberish. Even setting aside the fact that you don't know what a neutron star is, none of those sentences makes sense.

 

They rarely do.

 

Science Fiction. Fiction.

 

Metals can only be forged by stars. Some metals require dying stars to forge. So any piece of metal you see in your everyday life was once in a star (including neutron stars), a nova or a supernova.

Of course, the same can be said of most of the elements comprising the atoms of your own body.

Whether that sheds any light on the origins of mjolnir, I do not know..