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  • @6.49 hermaphroditie her superpower is makibg my penis go soft. permanently.

  • Wait wait wait wait ... WHAT?

  • @EXALTEDDIRT geez dood take a rest, I juss wanna watch this guy make stuff up :p

  • This video id great. Watchmen is so cool.

  • I love to watch hero movie. It's fun.

  • I lik Watchmen.

  • lol physics, it seems to change with time, its evolving! :)

  • They whisper in movies because it sounds cooler to the soundtrack...

  • I'm glad they only zoomed in on hot chicks

    6:03 and 6:21.

  • why can't we just say its magic?

  • @darksore6 what exactly... is that?

  • So Jim Kakalios came to the University of New Mexico on Friday for a physics talk. He is awesome!

  • @rsxlover100 when was that? i also live here in ABQ. i'm a senior at UNM.

  • @rsxlover100

    *** Part I ***

    Yes, most definitely awesome. While studying my Masters, I met him for dinner twice. He WASN'T my instructor & my field wasn't remotely close to physics ... Music Theory. But I've been a very active & learned amateur astronomer since 8 or 10 years old. No matter how hard you try if studying modern astronomy, even if "only" an AMATEUR astronomer, you WILL come across elements of physics occasionally. So the field has always somewhat interested me.

  • *** Part II ***

    I had read his book & heard of his teaching style. So wanted a few tidbits of physics-stuff to help the astronomer in me understand the basics. Knowing the subject could easily confuse the he!! out of me, he & his style seemed just what I needed ... and it was. I'm no teacher, but was a weapons instructor & battle-skills evaluater in service. If ALL teachers understood young students so, our average IQ would skyrocket, rather than plummet as the last couple decades.

  • I Wanna know about Roschach's Mask :(

  • @XxTheAlfsterxX you can buy them on ebay its a special ink

  • Somehow i think he is making all this up.

  • @Darklarik I find that it does seem that way too, but he is going about these things with the idea of "if" they were actually possible. with a mind like his, it'd be easy for him to calculate outcomes and what not if these things could actually happen

  • he doesnt even touch into how dr manhattan can turn one object into anything he wants. ???

  • @bengalbengalbengal

    well i guess he disassembles objects into subatomic particles like protons, neutron & electrons

    and reassembles them into the desired substances , which he can now turn into the desired molecules. After that he manipulates the shape of molecule-clusters until he has the objects he wanted to make.

    like a replicator in star trek, just allot more powerfull.

  • I'll answer all of this guy's questions

    It's a movie, that's how.

  • I must go to this man's class NOW!!!!!!

  • I feel dumber having had watched this!

  • i feel both impressed and confused im only 13

  • I'd go to UMN just to take this guy's course!

  • How do you pronounce the "rich guys" name.?? It's like "ozymandias" or sumthing??

  • @xxxExvxaxnxxx Yes. I believe it would be pronounced the way it appears written down.

  • @lledec WEll thats a stupid name...

  • That's an awesome prof. Would love to be a student in his class.

    Ps. Dr manhattan is beyond cool.

  • BOOOOOORRRRIIIIING!!!!!!!!!

  • @doljesrebro silence unbeliver

  • "Not striktly corretct from a physic's point of view, but VERY COOL NONETHELESS." Hahaha, i couldn't have put it better...

    God, i love Watchmen!!

  • The superposition part in the beginning confuses me a little; if the waves are cancelling each other out while the machine is running and generating the second wave (the first being Dr. Osterman's intristic field, which should be constantly generating) - then shouldn't the doctor re-materialize as soon as the machine is turned off leaving him pretty much unaffected? Theoretically that is!

  • Trying to figure out all this stuff completely ruins the fun of the movie.

  • @TristanPonte wat i thought how deep and smartass the book was was what was cool about it!

  • Watchmen is so cool movie.

  • Jim Kakalios is very smart

  • This video is great.

  • I like movies about hero.

  • Watchmen is great.

  • Good video.

  • Can you do a video on the Science of giving someone Cancer and turning into a car?

  • Could quantum mechanics represent the passage or Arrow of Time?

    This theory is based on just two postulates,

    1.The first is that the quantum wave particle function explained by Schrödinger’s wave equation represents the forward passage of time or Arrow of Time itself photon by photon, quanta by quanta or moment by moment.

    2. The second is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle that is formed by the wave function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event.

  • lol after watching this movie and watching this youtube clip ... i am absolutely convinced not to go to the university of Minnesota ...

  • Do not need to hiding

    Rorschach Family

    watch?v=iXqhOukjQn8

  • damm i thought da movie was in 2011 =.=

  • i think hes a tad too excited

  • "While it's a fictional, ill-defined ability in the story, here's the science of how this unscientific, unreal, ill-defined, non-existent thing would work, if it were real." Uh-huh.

  • @tjhoenecke Hence why it is called "theoretical science". Sience is a 'study of how things work'. This is, indeed, how it would work, if it were real (by difinitive scientific standards).

  • I didn't understand the explanation but I think it's pretty cool.

  • As a retarded 12 year old boy.. must say this is really really coOL

  • I graduated from the UofMinn a few days ago and Prof Kakalios said my name at the Graduation Ceremony! It was a huge honor!

  • That girl in the front row ain't bad

  • As a physics student I must say that what he is saying about those phenomena of physics is true, but those phenomena have nothing to do with the superheroes powers mentioned. Those are utterly and complete fiction. I feel sorry for you if you can't see the difference between reality and fiction and if you believe this man just because he is a physics teacher.

  • @houndarchon1 The stuff superheroes do are just abstract theoretical appliance of the true powers possessed. Imagine Dr. Manhattan as Einstein or Tesla for example. They were able to hold complicated structures in their head, thus succeeding in their respective fields. Manhattan simply knows more, more than Einstein or Tesla, more than me and you. Face the fact, We dont know.

  • this guy likes saying wave

  • Alan Moore wasn't considering any of this when he was writing it. The science wasn't even there for that. He made powers up just like any other self respecting comic book writer would. People should stop trying to explain it. It's like trying to explain Harry Potter

  • @dtothelu what if he had powers to see the human potential and wanted to depict it?

  • Very nice explanation,professor.

    I buy the movie .....i begin to see with my kids (i thought it was like Superman )...I sttoped inmediatedly after saw strong sex scenes and see Dr. Manhattan naked TOTALLY,that was disgusting.

  • @CaptainScarlet2006 You do realize they put these wacky newfangled things called "ra-tings" on movies, yes? And that next to the "ra-ting" it says *why* it is so "ra-ted"?? AMAZINGOMG

  • Too bad there isn't any "wave"...why speculate...

    

  • @iceclimbr1 this

  • how much they play him to say this shit?

  • im sorry man, eventhough this guy are professor from some university but i cant understand what he's talking about because all i heard is bla bla bla.....

  • wave-particle duality.

  • Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay..............­.......

  • I have mad respect for that guy.

  • bla bla bla

  • wtf?! its just a movie!!!

  • Dude CAN I BE YOUR STUDENT SERIOUSLY 

  • if he can control matter why did he have to look like a douche nude man wtf why not a woman aha transfestite YEAH a nude woman yeah thank you a whole lot better

  • NIce vid keep it up

  • Yes Indeed!

  • 6:05 nerd on the right!

  • @pmack169 because what happened to the doctor in the movie has 1:1,000,000,000,000,000 chances of happening, we dont even have that many people on the planet !!!

  • where is he looking

  • i love that i have no idea what hes saying :)

  • I'd love to hear him explain why The Doctor's TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

  • Now do it in english.

  • There's a point where your power is at such a high level, killing people gets boring. I mean it's just a flash.

  • He has a point just siting there listening to someone just talk about something is boreing and you're not gonna learn anything but if the teacher uses something to demostrate that everyone in the class knows atleast a little about as a jumping off point it does help.

  • The problem with school today is relevance they need to compare things in a relevant way instead of just sitting there in boredom.

  • i dont get it? xD

  • This guy is so cute.

  • Prof Kakalios,

    They do have similar books in Math as you spoke of, not quite as like superheros, but in a storybook fashion. It is called "The Easy Way" Like Trigonometry The Easy Way, and it is explained in a very simplistic entertaining method, that is quite easily understood. I have several different ones, with Arithmetic,Trig, Algebra, Pre Calc, and Calc. They are a Barron's Book.

  • I wanna suck manhattan's dick..!

  • @robke101 when he busts he probably busts depleted uranium so ur head would get blown clean off after he drops his load.

  • i thought this guy was cool until he said physics of superheroes lol

  • in a physics experiment......GONEAWRY...on a field of plaits???WHAT?

  • amen.. AMEN!!!!! :3

  • did the watch get superpowers to?

  • hmm...I'd think his powers would apply more easily to the manipulation of the vibration rate of matter ala string theory, and the ability to create new matter. That would explain the teleportation, the destruction, the cloning...everything really...

  • 471 people didn't understand what he was talking about.

    They only understood one word: wave....Wave...WAVE....WAAAVVV­EEEE....

    :D

  • is it possible? anything is possible im sick of hearing that this or that or anything is impossible. People should remember just bceause something has not happened before does not mean it wont happen.

  • Watchmen is the best comic i've ever read! Fantastic, I don't know how Allan Moore could do that! The man is a legend!

  • @Hoppus217 wholeheartedly; it was a monotone "Gee, thanks!" with an almost raising of the voice--which in the aloof way of teens represented ecstatic enthusiasm

  • wave...

  • if the atoms went away what is he made of

  • i left this video to load for maybe 10 mins. After it was done i realized that there's 1080p and i have to reload again -.-

  • @darklyperfect Why did you have to reload when you realized there was 1080p?

  • @Sclunger well cos by default it loads in 360p

  • @darklyperfect So? D:

  • @Sclunger Well so in order to watch it in a higher def i had to reload it again, thus taking a further 10mins. Its just my preference to watch everything in the best possible quality yea

  • @darklyperfect Ah, I see. I have slow internet so I have to watch everything at 240p or lowest possible. I don't mind much.

  • Cannon's cold steel, ignited illuminates subliminal, spontaneous combustion effects, that reveal Kelvin, percepts of astronomical, eruption in the, face light years, away with the, body to extra, mundane when combining, Kelvin Cannon one, illuminates life or, death beyond heaven, or hell through, " Kelvin's " extra mundane, scale ( Jr.) is, the sequential concoct, of Kelvin Cannon, having ignited twice !

  • When tachyons produced within the intrinsic field centre bombarded the physical body of John, the web that separates the consciousness/soul from his body was destroyed and at the same time his mind fused with "physical" matter at sub-atomic level. Also those energies which begun to flow in appear to have some sort of indwelling intelligence of the highest level imaginable to humans which enables him to re-assemble his body all the way from the sub-atomic to organic level. Bit metaphysical :)

  • @raydan18 Great comment! Your own thoughts?

  • @TheGreatMalefic Thanks :).. I used some core concepts from the esoteric philosophy which deals with the energetics of the subte bodies, my limited knowledge of physics, biochemistry and spectroscopy and my own intuitive realization...or probably the synthesis of all of these...

  • @spectre0075 Lucas used physics though it being loosely.

    I know what you mean though alderaan blowing up haha.

  • Amazing!

  • @ 0:34 Take that you Vietcong CUNTS!!! I'm Vietnamese by the way.

  • "I can change almost anything, but I can't change human nature." That is so sad... and so fucking TRUE.

  • why dont u become a superman and stop all of the wars instead of telling us how it works?

  • holy shit cant understand any of it but still awesome haha

  • All matter of science began from astrology.Just sayin, even though I'm a physics major.

  • @biggydx No, Physics came first... there is physics in astrology only it wasn't discovered yet... physics explains all of the universe and how and why it is.... astrology doesn't really explain the construct of the universe... you 'just sayin' it doesn't make it true, do your homework.

  • @mamakunem People were studying the stars before they studied gravity. Im a physics major by the way. Yes, Physics explains the universe but it wasnt the first scientific hobby that was practiced. People just assumed what the church told them about how the world worked was true when it came to the stars and the components of physics. To go even deeper, Astrology technically goes back to the beginnings of theology.

  • A person can learn anything,

    But it takes a genius to dumb it down,

    "Just think of it as a pimped out microwave!"

  • @FDAapprovedd or an alternative version my prof once said: "Anyone can learn.... dogs learn. The key is to question."

  • Yeah, this way you can really teach kids "boring" stuff more exiting

    however this is merely the first step, explaining comic book supernatural stuff with reallife physics etc.

    the next more important step would be, creating a comic that is based on real physics, so we won't end with "yeah, but this can never happen in reallife, even if it does make somehow sense" which in the end makes it dull again.

  • wow this is boring just show us the big blue DICK!

  • @nezj89 how is this boring man? it's physics. physics should be fun to learn; it explains how subatomic particles behave and how our universe operates on the large scale i.e. einstein's general relativity.

  • wave... wave... wave... wave... wave... wave...

  • dude, most people say boring to this, but I'm 16 and I'm saying that's pretty cool.....

  • Dr.Manhattan is probably thinking to himself "**** you physics, I do what I want".

  • So he don't understand why some students find physics boring?

    Look at it this way:

    Hard and difficult + lot of work + no progress = dull

    Understanding + progress = fun

  • Really?

  • wtf? its just a movie! this school sucks

  • @tricyclebanana actually its a movie based off a graphic novel made up of a mini series of comics

  • @tricyclebanana its physics, dude. a genius author used his knowledge of science to write a book, it would be an insult to not explain the science behind it, and just think its all fantasy, this movie has no science behind it

  • koyaanisqatsi

  • My son & I are both superhero geeks. I saw his book & had to get it. It was for my son's b/day

  • His IQ is over 9000

  • @bembry3000 he is a physicist , you have to be smart to get the job , its not literature.

  • @bembry3000 WHAT 9000?!

  • @bembry3000 lmfao!!

  • epic physics nerd is epic

  • waaave, waveee, waveeee, waveeeeeeeee. WAAAVEEEEEEEEE

  • Nice vid. Heard Dr. Kakalios on the Skepticality podcast. If you like this, check out their interview.

  • @joeygil I also came here because of his appearance on the Skepticality podcast. Fun stuff. :)

  • Stand back... i'm going to try physics!

  • i know what to do for the science fair.

  • funny how they get a scientist from Columbia to put to test ideas of Quantum Mechanics, a drop out like Alan moore fully understood when he created watchmen

  • soo why didnt a bunch of people try and go into that room and become Dr. Manhattan?

  • @TheMossad921 lol i guess u ddnt hear the first statement he made??

  • @beccaRed11 no whatd he say?

  • @TheMossad921 i got same question.. pls some answer us !!! :D

  • talk to stan lee!!! hehe

  • video doesnt work brah

  • Please correct the subtitles.. several times he says "phenomena" (plural) but the subtitles say "phenomenon" (singular)...

    Seriously, it's a university, and you don't know the plural of "phenomenon"? :/

  • @myciello They didn't write the subtitles

  • @audveltadmuna oh. well, then the person who did should have been wise enough not to attempt translating scientific material while clearly lacking the basic terminology..

  • @audveltadmuna though if the video was added by the University (it's their channel right?) then it had to be somehow authorised by their representative.. so I still think it is at least partly their fault

  • @myciello well nobody wrote the lyrics, it's just some robot on the internet that listens and writes something that he hears but he doesn't hear well

  • Dr Manhattan is the boss.. Above the Predator..Predator controls Alien. The Thing defeats Alien.. Predator's technology would detect the Thing...but Dr Manhattan would disentegrate the Predator.. But this guy is brilliant but I cant understand him.! Possibly, a great man though!

  • Dr Manhattan is the boss.. Above the Predator..Predator controls Alien. The Thing defeats Alien.. Predator's technology would detect the Thing...but Dr Manhattan would disentegrate the Predator.. But this guy is brilliant but I cant understand him.! Possibly, a great man though!

  • I'm not exactly sure why there are 466 thumbs down compared to the 3582 thumbs up. That's a relatively large number of thumbs going down compared to what this video has to offer. I thought this video was pretty cool and informing and to make abstract concepts clear to people, whether to individual persons or large masses, it is a very good thing to relate the presented abstractions to things that basically are from the concrete, normal modern day life. It enlightens the collective masses better.

  • →DuDe, stick your quantum mechanical physics up your tight nerdy diffracting ass ←

  • The Physics of Superheroes Kicks ASS!!!

  • this guy is awesome. 

  • im so gonna take physics now hahaha

  • Hmmm... Ok, now my head hurts!

  • thumbs up if Gmod Idiot Box 7 Got you here :D

  • i was looking for behind the scene...F**K THIS.

  • I've got a question for Prof. Kakalios here; how does a guy who was apprenticed in watch repair figure out all of the intricate details of human anatomy to the point of recreating his own physical structure proton by proton?

  • @Bobzeaux He went to college!

  • This guy is like an offspring of Einstein and Stan Lee. Without the moustache.

  • I find it funny how he can do pretty much anything except zap himself a pair of tighty whities.

  • Physics. The greatest subject of all time.

  • I just assumed that Allan Moore meant Valence Fields when he used the term "Intrinsic Field" by mistake.

  • I want to be Dr. Manhattan! I want to go to Mars and stay completely alone!

  • Hey...It iS JuSt the Way we ExPlain thinGs to the Masses ! Let us pen-pal Theories ! ! ! ( " Mark Timar " ) So, Atoms are spead out unless they notice the STAGE ! I Love IT ! ! !