What If You Could Melt Metal With Your Hands?

Imagine being so strong, and so powerful, that you could physically melt metal with your hands! Gold, iron, and even titanium. What would you melt? Are there ways we can do this today? And what temperature would your hands need to be?

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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere." — Carl Sagan

What If is a mini-documentary web series that takes you on an epic journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities. Join us on an imaginary adventure — grounded in scientific theory — through time, space and chance, as we ask what if some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence were different. Produced with love in Toronto by

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