Watching Iron Man 2 and seeing Tony Starks create a new element from his home laboratory is probably a great fiction to everyone. In the movie, Thor the scientist told Thor's future girlfriend Jane that it is fairy tale, Jane answered back "a precursor to science fact." I was bemused by the idea that THor said to Jane later that "In our world, what you consider as magic, is science to us."
I suppose that the writers of these science fantasy stories were reading science fiction or SF stories. Because a number of times, a science fiction invents an idea, science seem to follow suit.
Take for example, this article
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-particle-tabletop-chapter-science.html
After reading it is now easier to imagine what Tony Starks did in Iron Man 2. Although he did invent an ultra heavy highly radiating metal, the concept is not anymore out of reach.
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-particle-tabletop-chapter-science.html
