11. Captain Marvel’s Unaging Power
- Company: Marvel Comics
- Real Science: Biology, Physics
- Possible to Recreate: Yes
A lot of people rightfully had questions when Carol Danvers had a movie set in the 1990s yet somehow was part of Avengers: End Game, never having shown an age change between the two. Yet somehow, 5 years into the movie in real-time, she did show a small age difference. What happened here and how does it make sense? The science behind this revolves around space-time. Time, when it comes to age, is only possible to judge based on how people adapt to it.
The Twin Theory is the most popular example here. One twin went into space and the other remained on Earth. When the twin returned, his brother had aged 3 to 4 years while he only did about 6 months. Thus proving a point of time dilation. If Carol was all over space, she could have physically only been gone 6 months due to how she adapted to the times she was in. But this would have felt like 20 years Earth time.