Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll is willing to accept that Hollywood is not always going to be scientifically precise. But there is one thing he wants film and TV makers to get right: the spirit of science.
Take the movie “Iron Man,” for example. While building a flying suit out of scrap metal in a cave in Afghanistan is fantastical, Carroll applauds the process that the main character goes through. Experimentation, trying, failing, trying again, until finally, a working solution emerges.
“That’s not magic,” Carroll said, “that’s science.”
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