Rick and Morty Physics: What Is Jerry’s Atomic Matrix Mass?

Rhett Allain
7 min readJun 3, 2024

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Image: Adult Swim. Forces on “neutrally buoyant” Jerry

Some people (you know who you are) made me watch Rick and Morty. It can be somewhat extreme, but I can’t look away. Well, you know what happens next, right? I have to apply some physics to something from this show. In particular, let’s look at floating Jerry from the episode Rattlestar Ricklactica.

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.