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Jim Kakalios

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Good News: The Amazing Spider-Man is Scientifically Accurate

If you’re looking forward to The Amazing Spider-Man for the math, I have good news. It’s accurate.

University of Minnesota physics professor Jim Kakalios was the official science consultant on the film and gave the filmmakers the scientific basis for wall crawling and the tensile strength of spiders webbing. His biggest contribution, however, was an equation called the Decay Rate Algorithm.

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