Possibly untrue science news

I guess tinfoil hats aren’t good enough anymore.

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Pffft, where’s the corporate profit in that!?!?

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Tinfoil is clearly not thin enough for “quantum nano-layer technology”. This is even thinner protection, which logically makes it even stronger!

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so it’s homeopathic?

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:wink:

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Stupid question, but why are there homeopathic anti-vaxxers?

I mean, sure I’ve had bad reactions, and there are always questions over safety, but you’d think homeopaths would point to vaccines and try to bring them into their theories.

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Gold foil works, provided it is alloyed such that it looks and feels just like tinfoil. I can sell you a box for $350. Two for $500.

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Well, if it’s not premade into a hat, sized to fit my cat, then I’m not interested, and neither is he.

So there.

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Clearly he’s much too smart to believe such nonsense!

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Is it that new silver-colored gold I’ve been reading about?!

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“Doctors admit this ancient technique boosts the immune system and can help protect against some of the world’s worst diseases! Like the proverbial hundredth monkey, if enough people use this technique, they can also protect others around them!”

(Note: hundredth monkey is bull.)

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…in the shape of a rat, but definitely not fat, so he can look good where he’s sat…

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That cat needs a hat. He kinda looks like a top hat guy, but whatever, just make him a hat so he doesn’t have to show his bald (hatless) head.

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Hello…Reynolds Consumer Products has a vested corporate interest in Aluminum Foil lined hats.

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The PUREST gold is INVISIBLE

The purest FORM of gold is POWDER. When gold is ground into it’s purest form, powder, it is in it’s m-state (monotonic state). It’s so light it weighs nothing or weighs less than nothing (yes, it can actually weigh less than nothing). When it’s in its powder form… what color is it? It’s DEFINITELY NOT gold. It’s actually a pale/white color. When heat is applied to m-state gold, it may melt and turn into a “glass-like” structure. Making it transparent like glass.

quora.com/Is-completely-pure-gold-transparent

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Is that supposed to be a description of gold atoms?

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Just because something is “glass-like” doesn’t mean it’s transparent. Somehow I don’t trust this bit of internet . . .

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I don’t know. If they started talking about the philosophical mercury, that would be more understandible. But still, wrong.

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Physics thing I think is interesting: good conductors can’t be transparent. If the electrons are free to move easily enough, any electric field inside the material is going to be cancelled by that in short order. And light of course is an oscillating electric field. That’s why metals are always more or less shiny.

That said, I would have also told you they can’t weigh less than nothing, so I am forgetting that by virtue of being desirable to investors gold is actually magic. That might explain how you can carry so much in video games too.

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Have physicists figured out whether there is gravitational attraction or repulsion in antimatter? Seems to me this is or was a serious question.

Another question – if there is repulsion, is it between two pieces of antimatter or one of each?

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