Avengers: Infinity War

Infinity War is no doubt a fantastic super hero movie. Between the entertaining fight sequences and the engaging story the movie was extremely entertaining. Aside from all its upsides it lacked in solid physics and some of Newtons Laws are explicitly broken throughout the movie in multiple scenes.

Scene 1:

In the movies last climactic fight sequence on Wakanda multiple laws are broken. The first law broken is newtons third law, which is for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This scene being one for comedic relief where Bruce Banner (The Hulk) is in the Hulk Buster Iron suit and is running across the main battle field and trips. This scene breaks newtons third law because every time Bruce stomps he doesn't leave an imprint in the ground. This is a violation because the suit is massive and has to presumably have enough force to rival that of the Hulks, which means each time the suit pushes off the ground the same amount of force applied from the ground to the suit has to be applied from the suit to the ground causing a crater from the disbursement of the loose surface level dirt.       

:40s 


Scene 2:

In this scene we see Dr. Strange levitating, this violates newtons second law which defines the relation between an objects mass and its acceleration. In the scene we see Dr. Strange float but we so no visible upward acceleration to combat that of gravitys negative acceleration downwards. 

 1:25s



Scene 3:

In this scene, concluding the final fight, Thor throws his new axe at Thanos to finally stop his tirade. The axe hits Thanos and stops immediatly, suggesting Thanos exerted a force equal to that of the hammers, which would also mean he would exert that same amount of force on to the ground causing a crater. Much like the first analyzed scene this did not happen defying Newtons third law once again. 


Using the ISMP ranking system I would give this movie a PGP because given its nature as a superhero movie at breaks enough laws to make it interesting but not too much to make it  impossible to enjoy.

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  1. Prof. Chris FragileOctober 8, 2019 at 6:08 PM

    Be careful how you think about Newton's Laws. For instance, in the 2nd Law, you shouldn't think in terms of accelerations canceling out. An object can only experience one acceleration at any given time. But, multiple forces can act on a single object and they may or may not cancel out. If the forces do not cancel out, then the object MUST experience an acceleration. For an object to levitate, all forces must balance. What force is Dr. Strange using to balance gravity?

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