Physicists find Spider-Man's webs could stop runaway train

In a paper titled 'Doing Whatever a Spider Can', three physics students from the university calculated that the strength of a real spider's webbing could actually bring a runaway train to a screeching halt.

Since the hero is supposed to use the proportional equivalent of a real spider's silk in his web-shooters, his heroics may have a scientific basis.


"It is often quoted that spider-webs are stronger than steel, so we thought it would be interesting to see whether this held true for Spider-Man's scaled up version," said Alex Stone, who authored the paper along with James Forster and Mark Bryan.

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