I had a wonderful time at Ant Man and Wasp! Such innovative fight choreography! Such fun in the imaginative scenery going to the quantum level…but
The shrinking technology is based on the assumptions that you are reducing the space between atoms. There is a reason that certain distances between atoms exist. The inner pressure of the atom prevents incursion of other atoms. It is like stuffing people into an elevator. If you were to put all the people into a blender, they wouldn’t take up as much room and then you could put more people into the elevator. I could see how the blender might be objectionable to people going to meetings or on their ways home. The fact is this: even if you eliminated the space between people, the mass of the people would remain unchanged. 500 pounds of people is 500 pounds of people, whether intact or blended.
(I have to apologize, I’ve been watching too many “Bones” episodes. So this gooey example may not entice you to read the rest of the blog. Have no fear! There are some funny moments coming! Read On!)
What does that do for our plot? A couple of things come to mind. How heavy do you think a building is? Tons and tons right? So if they shrank the lab building, even if they managed to put it on a dolly or hand cart, it would crush the hand cart and you still would be unable to move it. Superman would have problems with it. Not even John Cena could do it. So we suspend our belief for just that moment where they shrink the building, put it on a hand cart and throw it in the back of the van. (Picture the bottom of the van hitting the pavement with the front up in the air, all 4 tires crushed.) Then they try stealing it, grabbing this building and throwing it around. We’re talking tons of steel, glass and concrete being caught one handed by someone who has problems moving their luggage in the airport. Wait, it gets better. Our heroes get the building back and in order to escape the bad guys, shrink the van they’re driving with the building inside. It is now matchbox sized and that makes a 30 story building the size of a dime. When you get that many atoms into that small a space, wouldn’t the temperature go up? They’d have to do some major Air conditioning to cool it so it wouldn’t explode.
Here’s the kicker…this building is sitting in our sidekick’s LAP. Think about it. You have a multi-ton building with temperatures approaching several 1000 degrees sitting in this guy’s lap. I’m thinking this might be a tad uncomfortable.
Then our heroes shrink themselves down to the quantum level. Wait. Quantum physics involves energy and particles on a scale smaller than atomic scale. So you’re taking something made of atoms and making it smaller than atoms. What could go wrong? What happens when you shrink the distance between the atoms and then compress the atoms to be smaller than atoms? Black hole? oops. Then you release the pressure on the guy to let him return to regular size. I’m not sure any release of the pressure could be gradual, and you are moving from nano-sized to human sized in a matter of seconds… Sounds like an explosion to me. Think mushroom cloud.
What happens when he expands to 60 some feet? Same number of molecules in his body, just further apart. Like a balloon. I would think he’d have some cohesion challenges. “Oh NO! My head just floated away!” Lord help him if he sneezes! He could blow himself into another county!
So yeah, it was a very enjoyable movie and I fully intend to buy the DVD when it comes out. But, consequences people. Consequences!
Measureable progress 