James Kakalios, physics professor at the University of Minnesota and author of The Physics of Superheroes, served as a consultant on Watchmen, and here he provides the Cliff's Notes to the scientific probability of what goes on in that bad boy. Kakalios is not the first expert invited to provide a real-world viewpoint on an elaborate sci-fi fantasy world; we can't help expecting that, a lot of the time, the analysis boils down to something like, "Sure, what the hell. Your check cleared."

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