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Neil deGrasse Tyson just took the mystery out of a cosmic mystery in comics, and somehow made it even cooler. How much does Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor forged from a collapsing star, actually weigh? Turns out, stars weigh a lot.
And, naturally, he got his hands on the real thing.
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African, Indian or Pygmy?
African Elephants are the biggest, weighing in about 5460 kg (54.5 kN) (Fully-grown adult male).
On that basis Mjolnir is 1,638,000,000,000,000 kgs heavy.
16,380,000,000,000,000 kg you meant
My bad, scrap that you are right
too many 0s and malfunctioned.
All well and good but even Neutron star matter is very very dense and heavy. A thimble full of neutron star matter would weigh as much as the biggest mountain on Earth. In the film, the hammer was on the floor of the Helicarrier when Hulk tried to lift it. It would crash through the helicarrier and perhaps hit the ground and sink further due its own weight.
I think at that density it’s a certainty that it would sink to the center of the earth. Even the hardest rocks or metal would be like air in comparison to it’s density.
An object can only sink twice its hight into the earth.
Why?
…yea but since you brought up the science… we are talking about something the size of a briefcase weighing as much as 3 billion elephants….
Yet somehow on tarmac on Earth it sits perfectly above the ground.
Wouldn’t Earth’s gravity make it heavier/lighter? Pardon my science, it’s shite.
More accurately, the Earth would move towards the hammer way more than the hammer towards the Earth (same principle as someone jumping off the ground – you move back down, and the Earth moves up a tiny, tiny, tiny amount)
I agree, but the hammer would then embed itself into the ground.
It’s all relative
You know its not real!
It’s hypothetical physics. You really think I* would be able to claim a segment of a neutron star?
Lol, I was joking!
I know, sense the sarcasm and gentle mocking tone of my aforementioned comment
I didnt no, heh heh
he says 300-billion not 3 billion just saying
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t such an dense object have a huge gravitational field?
Can’t image waving one about would be a great battlefield strategy.
You are right.
It would also make time do funny things.
If you can spin it around really fast it’ll let you fly as well. Fact! That’s science right there.
But you would crush/collide in an instant with object coming at you from all directions you would be like p/y-magnet
you would attract everyone and everything
So, I can’t get one at Homebase then?
It’d be ideal for knocking in the panel pins on a flatpack wardrobe.
Or messing up the earth’s gravitational field
No, it still wouldn’t be enough for that!
Certainly not from the value range, anyway.
He would get one from Up-stairs if he really wanted one :p
Obviously, Mjolnir is not made of -solid- neutron star matter. That would be ridiculous. It was “forged out” of a dying star. Maybe it’s an alloy of steel and star matter, or is just coated with it. Either way, it’s enchanted to be lighter than it is, so the whole discussion is moot.
Yeah, I know.
To be lighter or to have less mass? If it still had the sam amount of mass it would pull every thing towards it.
What is Sam Amount, and does it have anything to do with the eponymous Sam Gibbs?
You’d have to ask Odin.
wont that create a black if you compress so much mass into that size? and sucks everything in including the movie itself?
#hole
Out of curiosity I wonder how much it weighs when Thor picks it up?
I recall a recent episode of the Big Bang Theory covered the subject of Thor’s hammer?
NDT states “weight”. Weight is relative to the gravitational force created by the pull of one object on another. But magic/cosmic power is a variable in this equation, gravitational force could be altered, but mass remain constant. I believe the mass by itself could prevent anyone but Thor lifting(moving) Mjolnir. Your mass would have to greater than Mjolnir to move it.
That would mean that Thor is the strongest super hero ever!!!
He is really bad ass, unlike unreliable Superman who can stop bullets but cant help getting punched sometimes