[Fedora]

I hope this professor is consulting "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" for this project--lots of fun physics in there. I first learned the word "plasma" from an issue of "X-Men", which impressed my 9th grade science teacher when I was the only one in class who knew what the word meant, LOL! My Dad was a teacher and used to teach his class to read with comics; what this professor is doing can work.

[Indrid Cold]

I think the comic book publishers had to get fact checkers about the same time that they had to start giving out "No Prizes". IIRC, the first instance was when somebody wrote a letter crying foul about Tony Stark's "transistor-powered" armor. Of course, transistors don't actually "power" anything.