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"Ant-Man and the Wasp was basically a novel concept, but

Feb. 27, 2018 by Paul Fletcher

"Ant-Man and the Wasp was basically a novel concept, but there was a lot of complexity to it," says Mikel-Stites. "It wasn't going to be easy to write, and you'd have to go with something other than what the actual script had in mind. So it wasn't really that big a deal how it would be solved. But it would be a great example of how to go about making an actual idea that makes sense in a real situation."

The paper, which also appeared in Nature, is the first of many on the dangers of insect-sized breathability. In a paper published in the journal Bioelectromagnetics, Mikel-Stites and his fellow scientists explain that the air molecules that are trapped inside our breathable liquid form a kind of hydrated fluid. Because the molecules cannot escape into the bloodstream, they are unable to escape our body. "You could actually get a lot of the oxygen trapped with the air in your lungs, and it could be absorbed by the air and, in a situation like this, you would get a lot of the oxygen in your bloodstream," says Mikel-Stites. "So for many reasons they don't escape, and it could result in a lot of injury."

The paper notes that the oxygen in the air has to be transported to the lungs, where it is then converted into hydrogen, another kind of oxygen that can be used as a fuel for the superheated jet engine.

"This is very important, because it gives us the ability to fly as fast as we would in a flying car, or to do something as complicated as flying a jet engine, but to go from there," explains Mikel-Stites. "We get those gas bubbles out of the air and the oxygen is released into the bloodstream." And, after the initial escape of oxygen, the oxygen in the bloodstream can be transported back to the lungs, where it is converted to hydrogen.

"That's a very large molecule which is about 3 to 4 million times more complex than carbon dioxide," says Mikel-Stites. "So you could literally get a lot of the air trapped with the air in your lungs, and it could be absorbed by the air and, in a situation like this, you would get a lot of the oxygen in your bloodstream."

That's just one of the things that Mikel-Stites and his colleagues are working on. They are also working on the process of breathing. "We're hoping