maybe the portal is in his iris, around his pupils, that would explain why he usually has a reddish tint to his vision, evsn withouth his glasses, because the energy is always at the edge of his peripheral vision
it's an interperetation of that scene with quite a few liberties taken on the directors part, much like the rest of that movie. alex could still be right
The part of your eye that processes the colour red is the on/off switch. Close your eyes and shine a light into it and you’ll see a tint of red. His glasses and visor are red too so when his eyes are open while his glasses are on the “lasers” go off. Everytime we see cyclops close his eyes there’s always some kind of light around him giving the inside of his eyelids the red tint.
Cooper de Ruiter "Hi sir, how's your day going? Good? Good. Let's get started mister.... Summers. Mister Summers I'm going to need you to remove your sunglasses.. No? You cant..? Well uhh. I'm not sure what I can do for you today Miste- oh Scott, okay well Scott I can't really... Okay. Okay then... Uhh.. have a nice day Mr Summer-ah Scott. Ugghh what a wierd asshole. Who wastes peoples time like that. . hmph.. Janet, send in my next appointment please! Okay then.. Mister... uh . Murdock, hi how are we doing today? Oh.. more red sunglasses. Great." There ya go! That poor ophthalmologist never knew what type of day he was going to have.. Because after that blind jerk wasted his time too, Janet (Damned Janet!) got the wrong dressing for his chicken salad lunch.. THE WRONG DRESSING! God Damn You Janet.. But he also realized how stylish red shades look, so he bought a pair at the 7/11 on his way home, and he lived mediocre ever after. The End. -Dante Antonio.
I love how people are asking the same question over and over without even looking at answers given to the same question. First off, he doesn't shoot lasers out of his eyes. The energy that is called an Optic Blast, and it's a concussive force. The beams cause no recoil or heat, but are tremendously powerful, and can be used to rupture steel plates and pulverize rock. The beams constantly emanate from his eyes involuntarily, and can generally only be stopped by his own eyelids, or by shielding his eyes with "ruby-quartz", a translucent mineral. There is your answer to your questions. Both his brother Alex, aka Havoc, and him are immune to each others powers, but he has limited resistance to his other brother's power Vulcan, who is an Omega level mutant.
What material is Scot's skin that his eyelid can stop the concussive blast but steel cannot?? Doesn't that make Scot's eyelid skin tougher than steel....?
@@devilhunterredIt is stated in one of the books that Scott’s body generates a psionic field that resonates with the energy of the other dimension. Basically it dissipates it harmlessly. This also makes him immune to Havok’s abilities. Since the psionic field completely envelopes his body even a thin membrane of skin (eyelids) can stop the blasts.
Starting next week there will be video extras over on my Instagram (@sci_phile) after a new video drops! Also, I looked at my analytics and discovered that the show skews overwhelmingly male. This is obviously not my intention and I would like to get more of a 50/50 split happening. Open to suggestions/comments! -- KH
Why do you want more of a 50/50 split? Your channel works well and has a large following. I'd be happy with that regardless of the sex of your viewers. My advice... Make videos you love and you'll get the best audience.
+Raven Rain you sound threatened by the possibility of women invading this channel. Women like science, too, yet are rarely encouraged or included, rather are actively harassed away. There's nothing wrong with people in the science community stepping up and letting women know that they have places to come where their interests and opinions might be valued also. If this channel wants more female participation, that's their call. Don't be scared.
I think what he is getting at is that the channel is doing fine and us fans love it as is.. trying to bring in a new demographic may mean changes.. and as any nerd knows.. changes are scary as shit when its for the sake of accommodation.. this channel isnt anti anything but the subject matters tend to revolve more around a male demographic.. there is nothing here that would push females away aside from content not being interested too them.. yes there are women that enjoy science and nerdy stuff.. but they are out weighed by men not because the community isnt accepting, but because most women dont care.. which means to appeal too a new demographic would need big changes. there is no reason too force it.. I agree with this.. you really want to pull in the female demographic start a new segment.. dont change this one.. do something that females would be interested in. then each side has their fill. but please dont change this segment and start doing stuff like going shirtless or putting flowers.. idk really what would attract more women but dont do it for this segment.
I was going to make this comment, then when I saw the comment, this reply. And I would have been able to do it too, if it weren't for you meddling commenters.
No because how he teleports is via another dimension itself and he prefers not to jump blind. That and he be tore apart the instant he reappeared as it nothing but energy in there.
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I feel his iris makes more sense, here me out. The portal could be more of a doughnut shape instead of a flat disk. The iris can dilate(get bigger or smaller) allowing any variation in power output to be explained at any point his history. Also, head trauma is used sometimes to explain why he can't control his powers. Assuming the head trauma is linked to his lack of control, that kind of damage can manifest as irregular optic dilation. This mechanic for the portal also helps explain why he still has eyelids. His iris just shrinks so small it limits the damage to his lids. His lids still need some gene that allowed some amount of leaked energy to be absorbed, but at least its more fathomable than indestructible eyelids. Finally, he would not be blind as light can still go through his pupil.
this was the best episode you've made yet dude! That exercise to locate the blind spot had me laughing pretty hard. Mainly because as soon as I closed my eye the other object disappeared and I noticed right away
IM SO GLAD U DROPPED THIS EPISODE!!! You don't how long i've wondered "If you shoot laser beams out your eyes, how would you see?" Tbh I thought I was a loner in this thinking and thought I would never receive closure. But you saved me. Thank you
Kyle you forgot to consider that Cyclops' portals could be one-way, meaning only the beams come out their side but light could ignore it from the other side.
According to the comics, the ruby quartz lenses in his visor and glasses dissipate and scatter the energy coming from his eyes (like a prism scatters normal light waves) so basically the only effect of his power on his vision is that he sees everything with an overlay of red, just like wearing tinted lenses in regular sunglasses.
Please do a video about the physics of Magneto. How does he generate magnetic fields and how powerful are his magnetic fields? Thanks, love the show ;)
Cool video... But it got me thinking about superheroes. What would happen if Hulk merged with the Venom symbiote? Hulk gets stronger the angrier he gets. The Venom symbiote feeds on emotion and augments the hosts power. Would this be a perfect pairing?
There is an what if comic that this happens, it is an what if that tells what would happen if peter never "defeated" the symbiote. We get a hulk venom, and if I'm remembering it right a galactus symbiote, cool stuff.
I can see that going one of two ways. First, he might just become ultra badass super hulk. It second, the symbiote would drain off all the extra emotional energy and leave the hulk just as strong but calm about it.
+Stefan Latimer I think it would be the first option. When Peter Parker merged with the symbiote, it made him more aggressive. "WE ARE HULK-VENOM NOW! I SMASH WORLD!"
Bruce Wayne i don't think so. Superman's heat vision is based on him storing solar energy and releasing that energy through his eyes on will. He can expand that energy in a single blast of he wants to and then has to recharge for 24 hours. At least that's the explanation I got from the show Supergirl. So the mechanic behind that is way different than Cyclops.
FYI. Bruce Wayne does not use the term mate. YOUR A FAKE!!! Someone call Batman!!! Someone kidnapped Bruce Wayne and is impersonating him on his google account!!!!
Perhaps Cyclops's visor acts somewhat like a capacitor in that it momentarily stores the energy from his optic blasts, then re-emits it a split-second later in a constant, directional stream. This could overcome the eye's micro-movement aiming problem since the visor isn't moving like his eyes. Or he has a mutation.
There is a small error in this video, that effectively negates the entirely of it. The "eye portals" are not objects physically INSIDE Scott's eyes, but, according to the comics, hyperthin effectively-two-dimensional doorways statically positioned fractions of nanometers above the surface of his eyes, and are polarized in such a manner to be invisible from his side. He can see normally, but due to the constant emission of energy, he is permanently full-colorblind except for shades of red.
i was thinking the portals were on his conjunctiva or the white of the eyes. This makes the iris, and optic lens and retina free to do what they do which is providing vision.
***** Something like that. Blame a mix of poor memory of the comic and awkward wording in the original post I made, but, as best as I can recall the explanation I read, in essence, the portals don't prevent him from seeing entirely because they don't block incoming light, but the energy coming from the portals, being a constant flow (which is mostly outwards, but some "leaks" back into his own eyes), has effectively caused permanent "screen burn-in" of the non-red-detecting parts of his retinas, so everything he sees is just a reddish-tinted monochrome. In other words, poor Scott Summers sees everything as if it were on the Virtual Boy.
Byakugan does have a blind spot. It's directly behind the eyes, and slanting slightly up is the only place that the Byakugan cannot see. I have no idea why I remember this...
Actually if you read about cyclops you will find that his body is totally immune to all the effects of beams. They do not affect him at all. That is because his body has a Psionic field To protect himself from his powers. So technically the portals could be in the center of his eye as shown in the second diagram at 1:46. He would not be blind because of the light destroying the retinas because they have a psionic field protecting them. His psionic field can protect him from his own beams, his brother havocs beams, and limited protection from his other brother Vulcan's powers. And they only work against those powers. So if the portals were in the center of his eyes he would be totally fine.
A couple other possibilities. . . The portals are transparent, and the frequency of the light they emit is not absorbed by Scott's retina. . . Or the portals just replace the sclera of his eyes, and have nothing to do with the actual visual apparatus.
Yes! Like the experiments where people are shown an image briefly and then asked to describe what they saw. This often leads to mistakes because the brain cannot process all the information quickly enough and so it "fills in the blanks"...so to speak.
what did Cyclops do before he found out, which type of glasses help and wich not, when his powers first appeared? Try and Error? He must have had a heck of a track record of broken glasses stores.
Bernhard Glitzner His Visor is made out of Ruby Quartz, which absorbs incoming energy, which is how he is able to have his eyes open while wearing the Visor, and the two buttons release the stored energy
I thought I remembered him saying he can't see while firing in the cinematic universe, but then that begs the question of what counts as "firing", since he can see with his visor or some sunglasses on, and also he doesn't just laser his sunglasses off. It's almost like those portals close when his eyes are covered, instead of the eyewear blocking the laser.
If there's a portal to another dimension inside of his eyes, how does he turn it on or off? From what we've seen, if his eyes are open, it's pretty much energy blasts 24/7. So how does he not blow though his own eyelids? Your optic nerve would still work with your eyes closed. Close your eyes and have someone aim a flashlight at you. It's still perceptible, right? Maybe the opening and closing of the portals is entirely psychosomatic. When he closes his eyes, the portals close too. With practice, he might then be able to shut them off at will. Or not. Maybe it really is involuntary, and the physical action of closing the eyes is the only off switch needed. Less interesting that way, but a lot safer!
I haven't read the comics in about 10 years so I don't know if this has changed or not, but in previous comics there was some indication that his own body was immune to his optic blasts. I seem to recall a scene where he covered his eyes with his hands and instead of blowing his hands off, the energy blasted from between his fingers in different directions. So the portals are always open, but his eyelids are immune to the energy blast.
I have now established you as the resident expert on this subject and must inquire this: How do Scott's visor and sunglasses work to hold back the energy blast? Have read very little in the way of X-men comics and nothing pertaining to the specifics of his powers.
JuliusKing As to that, the glasses and visor are both made from ruby quartz. The crystaline structure serves to refract and focus the beams of energy, much like a laser beam. There's a focusing dial on the visor that lets Scott adjust the intensity of of the energy beam, maybe like the aperture in a camera.
Cyclops's body is naturally immune to the force of his own beams.[135] His mind projects a psionic field that envelops his body rendering it immune to his optic beam, allowing him to shut it off by simply closing his eyes. But it's strange the wiki doesnt mention portals inside his eyes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops_(comics)#Powers_and_abilities
I've never noticed the beams going at a slight upwards angle when not focused, they just seem to be broader beams in general that travel along his line of sight whever he looks until he closes his eyes or puts his glasses/visor back on
it's probably because those 'portals' which open up and shoot energy are closed while his eyes are closed too, so when he opens them, the portals open too
Roko Grgić so if you were to cut a hole in his eyelid, right by his pupil, would the portals open? His eyes are closed, there's just a hole in his eyelid. I'll go one step further: if there was some chemical that could make skin transparent, and you made his eyelids transparent, would the portals open?
Part of his mutation makes his body immune to the energy. There has been at least one point showing the beams hitting his arm when his visor got taken off, and they did nothing to him. Further proof is that his brother Havok uses the same energy, and they are immune to each other as well.
In the alternate storyline "The Ghost Boxes" Cyclops explains he can actually harm himself with his optic beams but he has to push his powers to the limits. It's how he committed suicide in the story
1:58 of ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R8nWG456o-Q.html is what Cyclops sees when he shoots his laser. Edit: 0:35 of ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IgFE8sP-dgQ.html is what Cyclops sees when he wears his sunglasses or visor.
What does his visor do with all the energy from the constant beams? How does it deal with it and what stop the visor from just being melted/destroyed by said beams?
Chinedu Opara ooh i like tgat and it makes if the frame of tge visor is made with vibranium, whic absorbs energy and distributes it, of course you still need to dissipate that energy to the environment in a non-harmful way.
This doesn't fit any of the things I have ever read in the comics. If it was because of their own sun then why do they not have powers on their own planet, or under other red suns and why would the powers vary depending on which sun they might find themselves under. Superman is actually more powerful when he is under a blue sun.
It is also not really because of the sun at al but because their moleucels lact liek tiny solar batteries that store the energy and the level of power they store depends on the radiation which is put out by the sun, from little to no energy under a red sun, slight amounts under orange suns, what we are sued to seeing under yellow suns and emense energy under the hottest blue and white suns.
I've tried to fully explore the science behind Cyclops's optic blast but I given up because there are too many contridictions.Like,if hes blast is concusive force,witch is why it pushes things away and doesn't burn them,but if its pure kinetic energy then how can hes body be "immune" to hes own blast,it makes no sence the only way to be immune to kinetic energy is to be made of adamantium.Another thing is that it should not be abble to be focused with eye lenses if its concusive force I've also seen it bounce of mirrors witch agian makes no sence if its kinetic energy,its not like you can reflect the blast of a bomb with a mirror.
Couldn't the wave just be exerting radiation pressure? I'm not too sure if you could find a frequency that at the same time doesn't burn most things(as in being mostly reflected instead of being absorved by whatever it hits) but also has enough momentum to push things away (and you would need an enormous ammount of photons) , but that would solve most things except the problem of him not burning his own eyelids (though some comments say that the portal closes when he closes his eyes. If so, no problem)
Actually, even if the portal is in his blind spot, it makes no sense whether it is "radiation", lasers, or "kinetic" That's because if it's laser or radiation, it instantly evaporates the vitreous humour and his eyeballs explode If it's kinetic, his eyeballs blow out of their sockets And that also dictates it being directional - i.e. the portal only opens in an anisotropic manner, that is the beam / force only travels linearly with no angle, and not backwards or to the side And of course, his eyelids would not stop either of these. Now, it could be that when his eyelids close, the portals close - your brainwaves change when you close your eyes so it's not unreasonable to say that these magical portals dissappear when his brain activity changes And maybe he doesn't emit red light - maybe that's just cherenkov radiation as it interacts with the air. It might make sense if his eyeportals scramble the information entered into it (one manner of possibleinformation-theory-compatible wormhole, in which energy can be transmitted but information - i.e. order - is not and only almost pure high-energy particles is all that comes through). Perhaps he has altered colour cones meaning the red colour is irrelevant and he can see through it. But then how do the glasses stop it? Ultimately, cyclops is magic. gah.
Except in comics logic, they made Cyclops immune to his and his brothers' powers a long time ago. Doesn't affect him at all, except for maybe helping to charge/overcharge his abilities.
I did see an error as Scott and his brother Alex are immune to each others powers their own so the portals opening in the middle of the eye wouldn't harm him. Either way good video, keep it up.
Dumb concept: due to his eye mutation, he can't actually see in the same wavelength as his eyebeams, only seeing colors on the more blue end of the spectrum. As for the micro-adjustments, simple: Scott's eyebeams don't come out in a straight line, they come out in a massive cone of energy that covers everything he can see. There's a few comic panels where he actually intentionally uses his powers without any kind of focuser or glasses, and basically everything goes red for a panel and anything in an arc in front of him is practically obliterated (honestly, some of my favorite panels).
Can you take a crack at how Halo's Covenant infantry plasma weapons actually function? How do they maintain the plasma packets' integrity over distance?
Do they ever even mention that anyone actually sees the energy? Couldn't it just be as simple as it being invisible to everyone and it's just being portrayed as a huge red laser for the viewers?
I have a question... Does Wolverines "Logans" skin flake and shed? Humans shed up to 0.003 ounces of skin an hour. Roughly 1.6 pounds a year. With Wolverines healing factor, is the skin shedding accelerated or decreased....If not stopped all together?
The part that flakes and sheds is already dead so his regen factor doesn't stop that. Since it renews his living cells at an increased rate he sheds more then a normal human.
I don't think he sheds at an accelerated rate, it's just that his cells multiply faster after damage than normal people. To shed more, he'd have to have a higher cellular turn over than we do. -- KH
so wolverine have the worst case of psoriasis, and he could not move because of the thickness of his skin , the only way this is not happening is that the healing triggers when he takes damage, self controlled healing, wolverine would die if all his cells work at that rate always, or at least have a lot of health problems, all the energy that the cells use at that speed will consume all the fat muscle and glucose in hours, but thats not your question, i think he wont shed more than a normal person, the skin you shed is the dead skin after a cycle of life, the skin cell divides and changes, you in your epidermis have 5 layers of skin in different stages, in psoriasis, the cells divide faster but dont change and fall that fast so you end with a thicker skin, probably thats what happen if wolverine keep that rate all the time.
At various times, in various places (the comics and the first animated series come to mind), it's been stated that all he sees is red. It could be that as the light leaves his eyes, they don't remain in his blind spot. They aren't really like lasers--since they don't generate heat and don't fire as a beam--but rather more like the light of a flashlight, fanning outward in a given direction from an isolated point. Though, unlike light, they strike a person with a significant amount of force. (Hence why they're called 'optic blasts'.)
Why not this? Portal opens from the gap between eye lids. And when they part (open eyes) the portal opens. This would make the laser on the outside of the eye and not blast energy through them. So, to explain the visor, special dual layer lenses are used to dull the energy so they are blocked like a super UV blocker but allows his vision to see through the goggles. when the back layer is opened, it allows the laser to penetrate the front lens that allows the energy through. Because science ;)
According to a magazine type thing I read in Sixth grade, he also must have really strong neck muscles to counteract the force of the blast... although I suppose that doesn't count if he isn't actually generating the energy and is in fact just a passageway for it. It also said that SusanStorm shouldn't be able to see anything when she's invisible because no light would be entering her eyes.
Cyclops was never supposed to have "laser beam" eye sight. In the original comics his power was to fire a beam of concussive force. Hence why he can see.
the most annoying thing about Cyclops is the fact that what he uses to contains his RED lasers are a transparent RED ruby set of goggles... RED ruby of which only lets in/out RED light and thus is the worst thing to hold the RED laser-light that he emits... its like the exact opposite of what it should have been! like green or cyan!
He doesn't shoot lasers out of his eyes, but some kind of concussive force. The glasses block the force, but I don't know how they would block the light.
Well, I have a theory about how those glasses might work. Since his ability is a mutation, opening and closing portals must be controlled by his brain. And since the portals are opened when his eyelids are open, the opening of eyelids itself must be the trigger that makes the portals open. If you assume that this mechanism in his brain is triggered by some particular parts of light spectrum which are otherwise filtered by his eyelids whe he has eyes closed - it would explain how those glasses work. Instead of not letting through or containing energy/force coming FROM opened portals, the glasses filter out some parts of INCOMING light spectrum that work as a trigger for portal opening mechanism in his brain. So generally speaking, they still filter light but not in a way you are thinking.
that makes a lot of sense since he isn't firing the lasers at all when he's wearing the glasses, if the glasses were stopping the lasers it would still produce light
Hey man, nice explanations and hence a unique refreshing channel. Well, I'm not good at science,but what I have pointed that you said Cyclops should bent his head downwards to shoot straight. Isn't it possible that the refraction of rays through his eye lenses let him not to bent his head to shoot straight...
Alex Tapia Its more complicated then that.Its a concusive beam yes, but the friction with the air makes the air ignite and turn into plasma so at higher power it can melt stuff through friction.
For a long time I figured Scott had parapolic lenses that reflected and focused his optic blasts, which would mitigate the slight shifts in his vision since they'd all be reflected at the same angle no matter what, right? I think that's how science works.
Hey Nerdist/Kyle, A few questions: 1. Would the cities from the Bioshock series, Rapture and New Columbia, be possible to build? (one is a city underwater and another is a floating city) 2. What would be required to make them work? 3. Is the concept of plasmids and vigor from the series something that could potentially be a real thing to any degree? If you see this and answer it, thank you so much! I haven't had this much fun learning in a very long time. I feel like I would have taken math way more seriously if my teachers had been able to show application to fun things like this.
***** semantics. you got the idea. still, if the premise is that his beam works by gathering energy from around him and focusing it into his eyes, then the closed eyelid would prevent that from hapening, and so, no beam. _still_, it all depends on how his lore is written.
Facts are not "semantics" - snake venom is not poisonous, your stomach will digest it. As mentioned in the video, canon says the energy comes through portals from another dimension which are located in his eyes. If he closes his eyelids but the portals are in his eyeballs, he's not really shutting the portals at all and the energy is still coming through. So I guess the inside of his eyelids are just really really tough? Lol. I think the premise you proposed is the one Marvel should have used.
Tosh Outdoors What if he and his brothers are just psychic, and he's subconsciously opening the portals that close when he's not "feeding"? Kind of like how we instinctually close our windpipe when eating or drinking so we don't die.
Keo Jin I've tried to fully explore the science behind Cyclops's optic blast but I given up because there are too many contridictions.Like,if hes blast is concusive force,witch is why it pushes things away and doesn't burn them,but if its pure kinetic energy then how can hes body be "immune" to hes own blast,it makes no sence the only way to be immune to kinetic energy is to be made of adamantium.Another thing is that it should not be abble to be focused with eye lenses if its concusive force I've also seen it bounce of mirrors witch agian makes no sence if its kinetic energy,its not like you can reflect the blast of a bomb with a mirror.
Vlad the Impaler I would have go back in the comics and research more about his power. but your correct in the area. I have no idea or work around for his powers at the current moment once you start to studying most of the mutant or super heroes powers they seem impossible.
I think his eyes are build so that the different lights wavelengths are filtered for specific purposes, like he can't see his lazer but can see very well with all other wavelengts!
Cyclops' eye blasts aren't "lasers", though. They are concusive blasts emitted in the form of a ray. In the comics, movies, and tv shows, his beam never melts or cuts through anything or anyone. It always leaves what appears to be smash indentions. In the train station scene from the first X-Men movie, there's debris falling from where the blast hit instead of molten girders and stone. Later in the same movie, Toad's slime shatters after Cyclops blasts it instaed of it melting. The bathroom scene in X-Men Apocalypse shows the same thing. When the stall door is hit by his blast, it crumples under heavy force, but neither the door or the kid on the other side have singe marks or other signs of laser burns.
Not to mention that his power is to shoot kinetic energy, which is focused to such a degree that it converts air to plasma, it's also likely that his eyes filter out the specific shade of red that the plasma emits.
Phat Nipol potentially, but not necessarily. Mutations both in real life and in X-men occur at a genetic level. It could affect the physical aspect of his eyes or how they are built to better adapt him to use his power without self distructing, but it does not guarantee it.
Phat Nipol actually no... Mutation is just the deletion, insertion or rearrangement of genes.... The alteration is genetic and not so physically prominent to effect his initial anatomy on ur indicative scale
I mean not necessarily, mutants in that universe usually have one change in then that gives them whatever power they have. Beyond that, they would have identical human anatomy. Wolverine for example has the ability to rabidly heal, but it doesn’t mean his organs would function any differently. It certainly can explain how cyclops can see with his power, but unless the comics explicitly state his eye anatomy is different than normal humans, it can be assumed his eyes function just like anyone else’s (besides the portals to different dimensions).
