Hollywood Density: Difference between revisions

* Subverted in the [[James Bond]] short story ''Octopussy''. The main character carries a briefcase containing gold to bypass customs. He takes amphetamines to be able to lift it easily enough to conceal its weight.

* Played with in a question to Marilyn Vos Savant:

* In the first ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' book, Lyra escapes her captors by shaking out a bag of flour, running out of the room, and then waiting for the flour to explode. First, a large bag of flour would be too heavy for someone Lyra's size handle in that manner. Second, individual grains of flour are too heavy to drift in the air for that long a time.