Something i noticed with the Will Smith slapping Chris Rock is a bunch of people that normally seem very pro-machismo and “defending your woman” would come out saying stuff like “oh I bet if The Rock or Joe Rogan told the joke Will Smith wouldn’t have done anything” and it’s like so weird how people keep inventing hypothetical alternative scenarios to give a take over (as opposed to not giving a take)
Like it’s the counterpart to “what if Betty White told the joke and the slap killed her” where an alternate scenario is invented to make Will Smith seem like a rage bound lunatic except in this case people are inventing an alternative scenario to make him seem like a wimp?
I bet if Will Smith’s antimatter clone had told the joke the resulting slap would have vaporised most of LA
According to the New York Post, Will Smith weight 226 lbs (102.5 kg) late last year when he started a weight loss documentary. Apparently he gave up within sight of his goal of losing 20 lbs, so let’s assume he weighed 205 lbs (93 kg) at the time of The Slap. Edward Muller’s antimatter calculator says this would have resulted in a blast of almost exactly 4,000 megatons (for comparison, the USSR’s Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was 50 megatons). MIT’s blast effect calculator says that a 4 gigaton ground burst would result in a 5psi overpressure (enough to destroy all buildings and basically guarantee death) radius of 70 km from the Dolby Theater in LA, encompassing not just LA, but Long Beach, Anaheim, Irvine, and Santa Clarita. Furthermore, the 3psi overpressure radius (destroying pretty much all residential buildings and ensuring at least serious injury) would be almost 100km, further encompassing Riverside, San Bernardino, and Thousand Oaks– really just most of LA County.
Don’t slap somebody if you’re made of antimatter.