a reply to:
sciencelol
If I told you I had found a spider that measured thirty feet across and showed a YouTube video of a regular sized spider inside a highly-detailed
model hangar (similar to what is used in the movies), you would not need an explanation of how I did the video to know that I did not have a thirty
foot spider. At least I hope you wouldn't. Such a creature could not exist on the Earth due to the lack of sufficient oxygen available to a
non-vertebrate.
By the same token, I know that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The magnet that is supposedly sticking to the arms is a few
grams in mass, while the individual molecules that are supposedly attracting it have masses measured in much smaller units... a molecule of water is
about 18 amu, which translates to approximately 3*10^-23 grams.
That's 30 trillionth of a trillionth of a billionth of a gram.
Now, if that magnet with mass of a few grams has enough force to stick to the arm, there must be an equal and opposite force operating on whatever is
in the arm. If it were a solid mass it would be quite easily detectable and would require medical intervention. so the force on whatever is attracting
the magnet would be about... and let me put this so it sinks in...
30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times
as much as the
force on the magnet.
Do you have any idea what that would do to flesh? Thankfully, such magnetism does not exist to our knowledge except perhaps in the field of an MRI
machine at full power (probably still not as strong, but it's an example... and remember an MRI machine can literally rip ferromagnetic objects out of
the body or turn ferromagnetic objects on one's person into a bullet) or perhaps on the surface of a neutron star.
Not to mention, the videos are showing objects that are not even ferromagnetic as sticking to these "magnetic arms." Some say it requires a magnet,
some say it just takes something made of a ferromagnetic medium, others say it's affecting metals that a magnet will not attract! So no, I don't know
how they are faking these videos, and to be honest, I don't care. Seeing is not believing when it comes to video production. If one believes
otherwise, one must also believe that there is a real Captain James T. Kirk piloting a starship named "Enterprise" around the galaxy while he argues
with a being from a real planet called Vulcan who goes by the moniker "Mr. Spock."
Until there is extraordinary proof, a written, detailed explanation of a properly-performed experiment that can be examined mathematically and
reproduced to provide similar results, the claim is bunk.
Period.
End of paragraph.
End of discussion.
TheRedneck