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A5 3 An estimation of human size limitations
Get PDFThis paper investigated, in a simplified manner, the theoretical upper bounds of human size byconsidering the human body’s heat generation and dissipation capabilities as it is scaled up inheight. We calculated the largest theoretical human to be an astounding 12.97 m tall with a mass of 31 tonnes. This size is many times larger than the tallest humans on record as it does not take into account the other limiting factors of our biology such as bone density and cardiovascular function
A5 5 Under the Sea
Get PDFThe paper looks at the pressure at different depths if the Earth is flooded with water up to the height of Mount Everest’s peak. The pressure felt at the current sea level would be 8.672 × 10^7 Pa and for the deepest point in the ocean (the Mariana Trench), it would be 2.497 × 10^10 Pa
A5 6 The Power of the TARDIS
Get PDFThis paper calculates the energy required to move the Earth into its orbit around the Sun, as occurs in the 2008 Doctor Who episode “Journey’s End”. We find that 5.642 × 10^34 J of energy is required to move the Earth into its orbit around the Sun, which, when considering the energy of the TARDIS, is more than enough energy to accomplish this
A1 5 Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man
Get PDFIn this paper, we take the iconic train scene from Spider-Man 2(2004), where Spider-Man slowsdown a train that’s about to fall off the track by using his web, saving everyone inside. We usethis to estimate that the web undergoes a tensile stress of 2.9×10^8 N m^-2 and has a Young’smodulus of 6.2×10^7 N m^-2
A2 4 Saving the Dinosaurs
Get PDFIn this paper, we found the power and intensity required for a gamma ray laser that would slowdown and stop (or destroy) the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. We found the power andintensity to be 1.2 × 1014 W and 1.8 × 1018W/m2 , which allowed the laser to stop the asteroid in 1.59 years at a safe distance of Mars’ orbit, assuming it to be a blackbody. Assuming not, the laser disintegrates the asteroid in ∼ 9 minutes
'Together We Curate': Cultural Participation and Collective Curating
Get PDFIn the frame of the museums’ reflexive and participatory turn and given that curation has rarely been used as an inclusive practice, the co-curating program 'Together We Curate', initiated by the MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts (Thessaloniki, Greece) after the first lockdown of the covid-19 pandemic, has served as an attempt to break with established theory and practice. The paper discusses the participatory experience of a co-curating exhibition and critically examines if and how such an approach enables curating to become an inclusive practice. Via a practice-led research methodology, the paper reflects on how a radical shift in the institution’s received practices can serve as a vehicle for togetherness, enabling visitors to become active agents and transforming curating into an inclusive practice, possibly opening new spaces for thought and action in the process of democratizing art and culture
The Structure and Function of Enzyme 42
Get PDFIn the video game Subnautica, Enzyme 42 is an enzyme produced by the Sea Emperor Leviathan. It is able to destroy the Kharaa bacterium, a disease-causing pathogen. The structure of an enzyme is often specific to its function. This paper unites the function of Enzyme 42 with a hypothetical structure, based on both its purpose in Subnautica, and real enzymes with similar functions
The Wintersmith Poem
Get PDFDuring one of her adventures, witch in training Tiffany Aching encounters the Wintersmith after dancing in the “dark morris”. The Wintersmith is the personification of winter and upon meeting Tiffany, he falls in love. Determined to enchant Tiffany he becomes adamant that he will make himself human. After hearing a poem sung by children describing what makes a human the Wintersmith gathers the elements required. This paper looks at the claims of the poem to see if there are sufficient amounts of each element within the human body to accomplish what the poems say it can
P1 1 Tongue-tied
No full textThis paper examines the tensile strength of a frog’s tongue when modelled as a pendulum to demonstrate that it would not be possible for a frog’s tongue to support the weight of two rats and itself as shown in the film Flushed Away. We calculated the tension on the frog’s tongue from its own weight plus a single rat to be 16.2 N, and with an additional rat, this increased to 19.1 N. However, given the strength-related properties of a frog’s tongue, we calculated the maximum tension it can withstand to be 18.5 N. Therefore, with the combined mass of two rats, 0.3 kg each, and the frog, 1.35 kg, this tension exceeds the maximum limit suggesting that such a feat would not be possible if it occurred in real life
A2 6 Heads or Tails
Get PDFThis paper applies initial conditions to a coin by using classical mechanics to determine the outcome of a coin flip. If a 2p coin is flipped 0.5 meters with a total energy of 0.17 J, then the coin will always land on the opposite face up.This paper highlights how the uncertainty of a coin can diminish