The Coolidge Corner Theatre concludes this season’s Science on Screen series with SUPERMAN, the original superhero blockbuster starring Christopher Reeve. Before the film, Max Tegmark, Associate Professor of Physics at MIT, will give a talk on the science of superheroes.

Clark Kent (Reeve), a reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper, has a secret identity: he’s Superman, a larger-than-life figure with great powers. He can fly, outrun a train, and lift a one-ton truck. His mission: “To fight for truth, justice, and the American Way.” But Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) has other ideas—to sabotage a pair of nuclear missiles and use them to create an earthquake that will wipe out the California coastline. Superman must race against time and stop Luthor’s sinister plan before millions of innocents are killed.

While MIT doesn’t have courses like “Shooting Laser-Beams from the Eyes 101” or “Advanced Leaping of Buildings in a Single-Bound,” it turns out there’s some real science behind these fantasies. Guest speaker Max Tagmark, whose primary area of research is precision cosmology, will shed some light on this topic.

The Science on Screen series is co-presented by The Museum of Science and New Scientist magazine.

A new season of Science on Screen will start in September ‘08.

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