Spider-Man's weapons are not logical about science

Silk threads help Spider-Man move and defeat many enemies may not contain as much power as on film.

Research on Spider-Man's weapons

Professor Fritz Vollrath of the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK, focuses on studying the properties of spider silk. According to the IB Times, Vollrath and his colleagues analyzed Spider-Man's actions and contrasted with real spiders. They concluded that silk produced by Spider-Man is not strong enough compared to today's spiders.

Explaining the power of Spider-Man in a scientific perspective, Vollrath said silk is a group of filamentous materials produced by arthropods. Animals develop silk thread and use silk thread 400 million years ago. Every kind of silk is a high molecular weight compound of protein. Molecules rely on rotational motion to activate the proper chemical process and assemble themselves to form a solid fiber that we call silk.

Spiders use silk to move between high-rise buildings.(Photo: Marvel).

Biomolecular protein complexes such as glue, horn and fiber have a three-tier or four-level structure in a wide development process. Unlike these substances, silk does not expand but is pulled out by strong elasticity and field force, combined with chemical buffers to initiate the molecular assembly process.

Considering the speed at which the Spider-Man shot the silk, Vollrath concluded that the superhero character released silk threads from his wrist after in-depth analysis of the online image database along with the description in the story.

"The shooting of silk poses many questions. First, where is the silk gland?" . Since silk takes time to synthesize, the silk gland must be quite large to accommodate enough fibers for one day of travel. Vollrath thinks Spider's silk gland is in the chest.

"One important thing to note is that Spider-Man, like spiders, can use both hands and therefore has the ability to shoot double webs. However, if the spiders always shoot double silk (each thread). can anchor the body weight like a seat belt), Spider-Man usually only shoots silk from a wrist, " Vollrath said.

According to Vollrath, such a way of using silk is dangerous if the protein bonds in the silk weaken. He speculated that the Spiders could survive in all cases thanks to a sophisticated silk quality control system located near the nozzle or the tube between the nozzle and the silk line.