Elliot's Physics In Film Blog

The moral positions of the scientists in “Fat Man and Little Boy” and “Gojira” are pretty similar. In “Fat Man and Little Boy”, we follow the scientists involved the the Manhattan Project. After the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, American scientists are instructed to find out how to create and use an atomic bomb. At first the scientists are excited by the intriguing concept. In the beginning, the task is thought of to be impossible, however, as they begin to make progress, they start to realize that what they are trying to do is very possible. This causes many of the scientists to recognize the potential dangers of the bomb. When knowing the destruction power of their creation, they question whether or not it is humane, even when at war, to release such havoc. They didn’t know if they should just put their morals aside and do their research, or refuse to work on the project completely. While many had internal conflict, there were two main sides; one side thought it wasn’t morally ri

The source I read is the Climate page of the NASA website. It lists tons of ways how climate change is shown to be happening. It starts off by saying the satellites orbiting Earth and other technological advancements have allowed scientists to see climate on a global level, and how there is clear evidence of it. Global temperature rise is one of them. The surface temperature of earth has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 19th century, and continues to rise today. Most of this warming has occurred in the past 35 years. This can be directly related to the advancement of technology and its use of fuels that emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Sixteen out of the seventeen warmest years occurred since 2001. Along with warming surface temperature is the warming ocean temperatures. The earth’s oceans have absorbed much of this heat increasing its temperature by 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969. With the earth’s surface and ocean temperatures rising, it has caused glac

I chose to read the “Physics of Superheroes”. The chapter I decided to summarize is Chapter 1: Forces and Motion. In this chapter, the superhero of focus is one of my favorites; superman. At the beginning, the author talks about the concept pertaining to Superman’s creation, and the “explanations” behind his powers. The original Superman had only a few powers and the  justification of them was his Kryptonian heritage. Since his home planet had a stronger gravitational pull than Earth, his DNA was supposed to have encoded the development of impenetrable skin and stronger muscles.                     The ability to fly was introduced in later versions of Superman. Along with this came other various abilities such as, heat vision, x-ray vision, super hearing, and super breath. By this time the laws of physics did not apply to Superman and the creators needed a new explanation. This time, the reasoning behind his abilities was the fact that Earth orbited a yellow sun and Superman’s h