{"id":6373,"date":"2012-07-04T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T07:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2012-07-10T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T00:31:17","slug":"the-science-behind-spiderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/video\/the-science-behind-spiderman\/","title":{"rendered":"The science behind Spiderman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blockbuster The Amazing Spiderman has plenty of physics and\u00a0quantitative\u00a0biology references. To get things right, the filmmakers consulted with James Kakalios, a physics lecturer at the University of Minnesota who wrote the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishpond.com.au\/advanced_search_result.php?rid=143423683&amp;keywords=physics%20behind%20superheroes\">The Physics of Superheroes<\/a>. Some of the physics behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoyts.com.au\/Times_and_Tickets\/Sessions_by_Cinema.aspx?cinemaop=BRO\">The Amazing Spiderman<\/a> can be explained through a descent of the Gompertz law and the Reliability Theory of Ageing and Longevity. However, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/news\/news-releases\/2012\/UR_CONTENT_395531.html\">University of Minnesota<\/a> press release, Kakalios&#8217;s most important contribution is the decay rate algorithm, an equation that relates to cell regeneration and human mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blockbuster The Amazing Spiderman has plenty of physics and\u00a0quantitative\u00a0biology references. To get things right, the filmmakers consulted with James Kakalios, a physics lecturer at the University of Minnesota who wrote the book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[351,850,74,444],"class_list":["post-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-movies","tag-physics","tag-science-2","tag-spiderman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}