Superhero comics offer super physics lessons
Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Spiderman Action Figure News
Deborah Halber, News Office Correspondent April 11, 2007 The public persona of the Atom is mild-mannered physics professor Ray Palmer, who fashioned a lens that enabled him to shrink any object to any degree he wished. The lens's secret ingredient is a chunk of a white dwarf star, and a 1960s version of the Atom comic book shows the professor in a grassy field, huffing and puffing as he carries a grapefruit-sized piece of the star (which has miraculously fallen to Earth) to his car. Palme
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