California Academy of Sciences astrophysicist Aaron White spoke with IGN and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he had more than a few issues with the F9 handles it’s stunts from a science perspective. Most of his focus is on the big finale sequence in the film, where Vin Diesel and his team have all their cars outfitted with electromagnets. White points out that the magnets in the movie are a bit selective in what they pull in, and that magnetic fields are spherical, so they would pull in things from all directions. However, White’s biggest issue comes when the magnets start to repel objects away, because magnets simply don’t do that. White explains,
