http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/science/wms-mjolnir/

Quote :

"In early February, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said on Twitter that the superhero Thor’s Hammer (aka Mjolnir) “weighs as much as a herd of 300 billion elephants.” News outlets pounced on this, and the news was quickly circulating online. Sadly, Tyson was wrong. Tyson’s reasoning was based on the idea that Mjolnir was “made of neutron-star matter.” Not so fast. (Art by Mike Deodato Jr.) “The critical mistake Tyson makes is thinking that Mjolnir was forged of the core of a dying star, when it was actually forged in the core of a dying star"

2/18/2013 3:42:25 PM

It's probably closer to 299.99999 biillion elephants (Repeating of course)

2/18/2013 3:57:20 PM

Neil deGrasse Tyson says:
February 17, 2013 at 7:12 pm
I could have sworn I heard the fellow in the recent Thor movie say that Mjolnir was forged **of** the material of a dying star. If not, I stand corrected. And, I suppose, even if he did say what I thought, I stand corrected — I gladly defer (as should we all) to hard-core Comic Book people. But now you’re stuck making up all kinds of supernatural forces to account for the behavior of what is otherwise an obviously heavy object that even the Hulk can’t lift.
-NDTyson, NYC.

2/18/2013 4:08:06 PM

YES AND THOR IS REAL

2/18/2013 4:12:42 PM

HAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

2/18/2013 4:31:34 PM

I don't think a hammer made of neutron-star matter would be particularly stable

my seventh-grade science teacher (Mr. Bigham at Apex Middle...I only mention him b/c he was sort of a legend) once told us that if a teaspoonful of neutron-star matter were somehow introduced to the Earth's surface, it would immediately plummet to the Earth's core and come almost all the way out on the other side, and then oscillate like that for awhile (he didn't say how long)

2/18/2013 4:35:59 PM

2/18/2013 9:09:05 PM

^^ oh yeah, I remember him. I think he yelled at the class once and called us a bunch of fuckin shits. good dude.

[Edited on February 18, 2013 at 9:16 PM. Reason : also, snakes]

2/18/2013 9:15:57 PM

yeah, in retrospect...he was the man. My buddy works at the credit union in Apex, and still sees him sometimes. He's doing fine, last I heard.

2/18/2013 10:46:30 PM