Ant-Man (film)

"Heroes don't come any bigger"

"No shield. No armor. No problem. From The Director Of Blown Away"

"It's not as simple as saying, 'Oh, everything will shrink down and stay proportional."

"He'll probably have to eat his own weight daily just to stay alive."

"There’s another thing, his hearing would be affected. Your eardrums can be thought of as a two-dimensional vibrating surface. Our hearing ranges from as low as 20 hertz, low-frequency noise, like Barry White, up to like 20,000 hertz. If the cutoff is at 20 hertz, then at ant size the cutoff would be something closer to 340 hertz. And since normal human speech is at 200 hertz, below that cutoff, what happens is he wouldn’t be able to hear what you were saying."

"His vision gets messed up because light is coming through the iris in your eye. The opening of your iris is maybe a few millimeters. If you shrink that down to ant size, now the size of the opening in your eye is not hundreds of times greater than the wavelength of light, now it’s less than 10 times greater than the wavelength of light."

"Our normal speaking voice is in the range of 200 hertz, 200 cycles per second,” said Kakalios. “If you shrink down to the size of an ant, if you model the vocal cords as vibrating strings, his voice will go from 200 hertz to 3,500 hertz or so. So he will be talking in this high, squeaky voice."

"Regardless of how information enters our brain, whether we read it, detect it with our eyes, hear it with our ears, at the end of the day it’s converted to an electrochemical signal. That is then processed, and we translate that into information or noise or what have you."

"We’re made of atoms, and the neighboring atoms are all touching each other. One method of changing your size that’s out: Just squeeze the atoms closer together. The atoms in your body are already touching other atoms. The reason why they don’t just pull super close together is because as they get closer and closer, the electron clouds from neighboring atoms overlap. Electrons are all negatively charged, and similarly charged objects repel each other, and when they get closer the repelling force is really strong."

"The atom smasher tends to just collide them once. Here you’d have to put them in the olive oil press. Then when you release the pressure, it’s not gonna be good."

"The other technique that people talk about is removing mass, removing atoms."

"What determines the size of atoms anyway? Physics actually has an understanding of why atoms have the size they do. They all tend to be roughly the same size. They all are about a third of a nanometer."

"In order to change the size of an atom, what you’d need to do is — and this is where the suspension of disbelief comes in — you have to have some sort of mechanism by which you’d change the values of these constants. There’s a lot of other properties of matter that depend on these constants, in addition to just the size of an atom. If you change Planck’s constant, all the rest of chemistry gets thrown into a mess."

"Even though the original writing by Stan Lee and his co-author meant to take this … less scientifically seriously. The true science does involve some quantum physics."

"Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man"

"Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne"

"Corey Stoll as Darren Cross / Yellowjacket"

"Bobby Cannavale as Paxton"

"Michael Peña as Luis"

"T.I. as Dave"

"Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon"

"Wood Harris as Gale"

"Judy Greer as Maggie"

"Abby Ryder Fortson as Cassie"

"David Dastmalchian as Kurt"

"Michael Douglas as Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym"