21. How Ghost Can Drift Between Objects
- Company: Marvel Comics
- Real Science: Quantum Physics
- Possible to Recreate: Theoretically
Ghost happens to be an amazing villain we were finally introduced to in the MCU within Ant-Man & The Wasp. However, the character had been an Iron Man villain in the comics for years. Like Iron Man, a lot of Ghost’s main functions work with some backed up scientific fact. The character is capable of blending into environments via cloaking and drifting between objects seemingly turning into smoke while doing so.
However, the facts behind comic book characters like Ghost are backed up by some real science. Cloaking is possible through knowledge of mirrors alone. The drifting, however, can be explained through something called Quantum Entanglement. If Ghost had control of this, they will break down to a quantum state where each particle cannot be described as independent from the others (they remain together). This allows them to become smoke in one place and appear in body form elsewhere.