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so I saw this post (x) and I was like, wait a second, Barry’s lighting that gas on fire by moving his fingers? How fast is Barry moving?

If you look closely, there’s a label that says that the gas is propane, which has a molar mass of 44.10 g/mol, a specific heat of 1.67 J/g*K, and autoignites at 743 K. So, Barry has to be moving, at the minimum, fast enough to reach 743 K.

So, let’s say he’s igniting 1 mole of propane (there’s really no way to measure the mass by watching) and that the room temperature is a standard 298 K. With Q=mcΔt, we have:

Q = (44.10 g)(1.67 J/g*K)(743 K - 298 K)

Q = 32772.915 J or 32772.915 kg*m^2*s^-2

Then, we have the total thermal energy from Barry’s two fingers moving! So, to find the velocity, I used 1/2mv^2=Q. For the mass of a human finger, I used 100 g since that was the first result from google. I use 1/2mv^2 twice, one for each finger’s movement:

½(0.1 kg)v^2 + ½(0.1 kg)v^2 = 32772.915 kg*m^2*s^-2

(0.1 kg)v^2 = 32772.915 kg*m^2*s^-2

v^2 = 327729.15 m^2*s^-2

v= 572.4763313885 m/s

Then, I converted the velocity to miles per hour:

572.4763313885 m/s * 60 s/min * 60 min/hour * 0.000621371 mile/m = 1280.5926858403 miles per hour

Barry snapped his fingers at, at the least, 1280 miles per hour or Mach 1.68. To put that into perspective, he had to run straight for 5.3 miles in season 1 to reach Mach 1.1 so he could supersonic punch Tony Woodward.

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Newtina drabble because who already isn’t in love with these two?

Words: 340 Setting: Post FBAWTFT _______________________________________________________________________

Tina woke early that morning, as she had done ever since the morning he left. To her it felt so surreal, all that had happened with Grindelwald, MACUSA and Newt. It was as if she had been startled from a dream every time she opened her eyes.

It had been exactly six months since Mr Scamander had boarded the ship back to England. Six months since he’d walked that gangplank and hadn’t looked back. He said he’d come back, she thought. He will come back.  She’d been keeping up to date with all the recent publications, anxiously awaiting the day she’d see the words Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander sprawled across the papers. Alas, that day had not yet come, and she was no closer to seeing him again. She was preparing herself breakfast and getting ready for work when Queenie dropped the envelope on the table.  “For you,” she smirked.  “Don’t get too excited”, she added as an afterthought. Evidently having read her mind. Tina frowned, having not seen where the post had been sent from. She smoothed over the paper of the envelope, flicking it over to see who it was addressed to and sent from.  To Miss Porpentina Goldstein… London, The United Kingdom. 

As quick as she could she was tearing open the envelope to reveal the hand-written letter inside:

‘Tina,

I’m writing to you about my book. It’s going to be published very soon, and in that vein I hope to be seeing you again soon for my personal delivery. As promised. I cannot wait to come back to America, I will be visiting Frank to see how he is going. And of course, to see you. I’m awfully sorry this letter isn’t longer, I don’t often send any. 

Don’t bother replying, as by the time you will be reading this I will already be on my way. 

Yours,

Newt Scamander.’

She held the letter to her chest, biting her lip to contain her joy. 

“As promised indeed, Mr Scamander.”

Katherine: You know as much as we do, because they haven’t told us how it’ll happen or anything, but we know, yeah, from the book, that they do ended up together. But maybe it’ll be easy to get to that point? Maybe it’ll be very difficult? I don’t know.

Eddie: These two characters are kind of skirting around each other. There’s combat at the beginning. Just by the end of the film they are just beginning to find each other. I love it. It’s a slow burn.