Superman Meets Newton and Einstein

This Week's Speaker: James Kakalios is a Taylor Distinguished Professor and Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy. His experimental research ranges from the nano to the neuro, and he is active in outreach and public engagement. In this talk he will discuss the principle of gravity as it relates to Superman. Isaac Newton's Law of Gravitational Attraction will be used to explain why Superman's home planet Krypton exploded. He will then turn to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in order to account for how Superman was able to reverse time by rapidly orbiting Earth in the 1978 Warner Bros' film Superman: The Movie. Prepare to be educated in the nerdiest way possible!

For information on the full series, please visit the Astounding Astrophysics webpage here.