The world just cannot resist giving sci-fi movies the science treatment. No matter how "fi" the "sci" is in "sci-fi," there will always be a devil's advocate ready and waiting with the facts. Mark it down as a law of physics.
Jake Roper, aka Vsauce3 on YouTube, is our devil's advocate this time around, with an extremely important research question: Would we survive Back to the Future? The video is part of the YouTube Originals series, Could You Survive the Movies?
Through experiments and parody skits, Roper shows what would happen if we actually tried to time travel like Doc and Marty McFly do in the classic '80s film. Could you handle the impact of a sound wave? Could you avoid getting stuck in some sort of time paradox? Could you survive being struck by lightning to power your time travel device?
After careful deliberation, it turns out – nope! You'd die. The end. Thanks, science!
