How heavy is the body?

[frankreid]

My son recently posed an interesting question. He is a comic artist and often creates his own superheros for the stories he writes. He gave me some information then asked a question.

Suppose a few men were working in a steel plant and something happened to one of them. He was above a cauldren of melted iron when the building was hit by a beam or ray that caused much damage. The man above fell into the molten iron just after he was hit by the beam which altered his body so that when he went into the vat instead of burning up he became a true "IronMan" and was able to climb out and cool off.

Assuming a very muscled man about 6'ft 2' and about 200 lbs.
Question: How heavy would he be at 100% iron? My son tells me that he could keep both states and turn on and off the ironman at will.

I looked up the specific gravity of iron, not steel, cast iron. Using him as a body of water at 1000 and iron at 7000 I'm assuming he would be seven times heavier than he was before. 7 x 200 = 1400lbs. That would be too heavy to climb stairs or walk across a wooden floor without damage, given the small surface area of one foot.

What do you think?

Frank Reid
Reid Engineering Services of Utah

 

[Ron]

If he can switch from mortal to iron man at will, he can alter his weight to have no effect on anything he doesn't want affected.

...but then if cows could fly, we'd be covered in ....

 

[drawoh]

If he can switch from mortal to iron man at will, he can alter his weight to have no effect on anything he doesn't want affected.

...but then if cows could fly, we'd be covered in ....

...something much less dangerous than if Iron Men were flying, I am sure.

JHG

 

[WolfHR]

Berylium, bah humbug... The solution is so obvious and one even does not have to change laws of physics (afterwards). Make him fall into a vat of unobtanium, as simple as that.