WH: When we watch the Thor movies, yes, there’s a lot of mysterious stuff going on, but the flight-by-hammer-twirl, that’s kind of based on the rules of physics we see in our everyday life. But if you tell Tony Stark, “well, this is just science that’s so much more advanced that you don’t understand its operation yet,” he could at least presumably accept that. If everything that Thor does is just completely magic, Tony Stark’s going to have a problem with that. And they wanted Thor to be able to exist in the same universe as Tony Stark. They did this deliberately with Thor in the first Thor movie because they knew the plan was to eventually make an Avengers movie. Clarke dictum that “any sufficiently advanced technology would appear to a less advanced society to be magic.” They accounted for Thor and all of the other characters in Asgard as coming from another world, another dimension whose science is so sophisticated and so advanced that for us, it appears like magic. And in the movies, they made a very deliberate decision to move away from that. Jim Kakalios: In the comic books, Thor is a Norse god, and basically his powers, strengths and abilities were all magic-based. Walt Hickey: When you see these Avengers movies, which character changes between the comic books and the movies do you think ground them more or less in the real world? This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Kakalios gave me a theory that explains Thor’s hammer, Captain America’s shield and the deal with a newcomer to the team, the Vision. Real-life scientists aren’t looking to nitpick these movies - they don’t debate pesky questions about the Hulk’s Incredible Pants - but instead like to use the movies as a jumping-off point to talk about the real-life research being done on stuff we see on-screen. To get prepped, I talked to Professor Jim Kakalios of the University of Minnesota, who researches nanocrystalline semiconductors by day and is the author of “ The Physics of Superheroes” and a scientific consultant on films like “Watchmen” and “The Amazing Spider-Man” by night (and day). “Avengers: Age of Ultron” hits theaters Friday.
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