The Cartoon Laws of Physics | StarTalk

so we talked about animation here and
some earliest some of the earliest
concepts of animation there’s a drawing
on a is it an urn in Iran where it shows
several images that in sequence is a
moving animal yeah it’s a leaping animal
Addison so we’ve been thinking about
this from long there’s as many the first
movie 5,200 years ago and I’m sure that
before that there is a piece of pottery
with some porn on it because that’s the
first thing that people go to whenever
any new technology reproduction is a
powerful motivation yeah that kind of
motion science went on later in
photography when people took stop-motion
and numerous pictures to try to see
whether when a horse was running it
would actually have all of its feet off
the ground at once and the answer was it
did and it’s gone since then nowadays
with movies we can’t even tell that
there’s a breakfast so in fact animation
film yes this whole industry requires
that you cannot resolve in time the
images that are going by your eyes it’s
right your brain blurs them so now
there’s some fun facts in here for
example Charles you must know about this
it’s on the internet and it’s old it was
one of the first things sort of
transferred into an enter into digital
form yes it was the physics of cartoons
cartoon physics yes the cartoon laws of
physics mm-hmm and so for example one of
them is if you’re running off a cliff
you will not fall until you realize that
you’re no longer standing on a cliff
that makes perfect sense that’s like the
first law right and there’s a whole
there’s like talk there’s a whole page
of I’m sure there’s got to be a law that
if you see a very attractive woman your
eyes pop out of your and then go back
and there’s a honking sound well what is
the famous ultimate rule you have to
follow the laws of physics
unless it’s funnier not to yeah