Finally: The Real Weight of Thor’s Hammer

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Apparently Neil deGrasse Tyson decided to go ahead and crunch the numbers and tell us just how heavy Thor’s Hammer would be if it was indeed forged within a collapsing star – in elephants. According to his calculations, it would weigh as much as 300 billion elephants – now there’s a unit of weight that physicists should consider using more often.

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