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Hey Vsauce I'm Jake and if you've played Injustice: Gods Among Us, you know how awesome it is
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to be Superman and punch people into space. But what if he were to hit you in real life?
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What would happen if someone who is able to lift 200 quintillion tons with one hand, power
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the sun or, my favorite, punch dimensions apart...were to punch you?
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And this brings up an interesting idea: Superman -- and really any fictional character -- is
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only as powerful as the person writing them. He has gone from being able to leap tall buildings
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in a single bound to moving faster than the speed of light. In this theory, no matter
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how strong Superman is, there is one universal law of physics he can't break--that nothing
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with mass can achieve--travelling the speed of light. So we will put him 1% below that
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299,792,458 m/s limit at 99% the speed of light.
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So you're, unfortunately, in a fight with the Man of Steel who, in this case, will not
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restrain himself when hitting you. If his fist has an average mass of 300 grams and
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it's moving at 99% the speed of light, it would have a total energy of about 190,000,000,000,000,000
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joules. Which is equivalent to 45 Megatons of TNT or over 2,800 times more powerful than
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the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Throwing just one punch at near the
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speed of light with that much energy would burn around 45,400,000,000,000 calories or
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almost 82 billion Big Macs.
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Now you have one of the largest bombs ever, condensed into a fist, and aimed at your face. What
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happens when Superman releases that punch?
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This is when it gets incredibly cool...or incredibly hot since the energy being released
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by Superman's fist would be around 80,000,000,000,000 Kelvin, which is 5 million times hotter than
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the core of our sun.
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It takes about 1 centisecond for the light that hits your retina to then be processed
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by the brain, so since the punch is travelling at near the speed of light, it would only
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take 3.4 Nanoseconds for the fist to get to you. So you literally wouldn't see it coming.
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But what we can see is that from the fist's perspective, since it is moving at an amazing
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296 million meters a second, all of time is practically frozen. The particles in the air,
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the oxygen and nitrogen, are just suspended in time. And Superman's hand hits them with
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such energy that it creates nuclear fusion. Gamma rays explode from every collision and
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create an explosion unlike any the Earth has ever seen. A giant fireball engulfs the surrounding
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area and a blast wave shoots out, shattering windows, structures and rips trees out of
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the ground. There might be fictional characters with more powerful punches, but at this point,
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when it comes to you still existing, it doesn't matter...
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Superman wouldn't only knock the wind out of you, he would knock the atoms out of you.
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His fist has pretty much become a particle beam. At 7,000,000,000 electron volts it is
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more powerful than the Jefferson Labs Particle Accelerator in Virginia. The atoms that made
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up you would be completely disintegrated, liquified at the atomic level. You'd turn
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into fundamental particles and quark-gluon plasma which is what was created right after
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the Big Bang. And from all of this energy, new particles and anti-particles would form.
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So out of your unfortunate destruction, something new, something we might not have ever seen
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before, could be created.
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To visualize the explosion we can use Nuke Map to see what a 45 megaton bomb would look
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like in terms of sheer damage, but what we can't really show is that the damage from Superman's
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punch would look more like a traffic cone with a beam shooting out from where his fist
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landed, destroying everything in its path and creating an explosion all around him.
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It would leave a crater almost 1km in diameter and 221 meters deep.
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So how close could you or I come to having 'Superman's strength'? My friends at AsapSCIENCE
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breakdown strength muscle growth and how superhuman strength may be more attainable than ever
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before.
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Don't piss of Superman and as always, thanks for watching.
