Questions tagged [electromagnetism]
Electromagnetism is the branch of science concerned with the forces that occur between electrically charged particles. Use this tag for anything related to electricity, electrical or magnetic fields (such as microwave radiation), etc.
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Are water-based electrolyte batteries limited to 1.23 volts per cell at most?
In the popular YouTube channel Veritasium, generally known for rigorous research and not making false claims continuously, there was a video about lithium ion batteries, The Perfect Battery Material ...
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Does this "reverse microwave" cool food "without electricity and is 100% sustainable"?
A recent Eco News article says:
The “reverse microwave” is already a reality: it works without electricity and will revolutionize our life
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Imagine a reverse microwave to cool food instead of ...
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Do fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field cause health problems? [closed]
CLAIM: Magnetic fluctuations caused by solar flares, known as "geomagnetic storms", cause health problems in humans.
Several studies have come out in an field known as "heliobiology&...
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Do antistatic car-straps reduce static shocks from cars?
There is a line of anti-static rubber straps sold for cars which attach to the chassis of the car and dangle down to the road. It is claimed that they allow static electricity to drain off, preventing ...
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Was an invisible electrostatic wall generated at a plastic tape factory in August 1980?
Amasci.com reported in 1996:
David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically ...
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Do recent images from the JWST pose a major crisis for Big Bang cosmology?
In some recent publications, plasma physicist and alternative cosmology advocate Eric Lerner has made the claim that recent JWST images disprove the conventional ΛCDM model of cosmological inflation, ...
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Can Dubai make it rain with drones that emit electric charges?
In this post from LinkedIn there is a video of a bunch of rain fall, the post says,
Dubai is making it rain (artificially).
Scientists in the United Arab Emirates are using electrical charges from ...
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Did an asteroid impact in 2000 cause widespread power outages in Yukon, Canada?
A number of sources on the Internet claim that an asteroid impact in 2000 caused widespread power outages in Yukon, Canada. For example, according to the German-language Wikipedia page for the small ...
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Can electricity be transmitted wirelessly over Zenneck surface waves?
Viziv Technologies claims that they are researching the ability to send and receive electricity using the Zenneck Surface Waves.
August 2019 press release
Viziv Technologies, LLC, and Baylor ...
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On the impact of (non ionising, non visible) EMF radiation on the human body: should we be worried about widespread 5G implementation? [duplicate]
I decided to do some research on the topic and found these two articles listed on google scholar (i have the PDFs, and can share them if you tell me how to!).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
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What happenned at Ripon - Weston Elementary School [closed]
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Did the radio tower cause the cancer? - There is little evidence that radio towers in general cause cancer.
Tests reveal carcinogen (TCE) in tap water but carcinogen is 10x lower than the ...
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Does aluminum foil safeguard your credit card from RFID attacks?
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Does Aluminum Foil Stop Identity Theft?
Some sources say that if you actually have an RFID-enabled credit card, aluminum foil does the same job, if not better, than an expensive RFID-...
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Do crystals protect against EMF
There is no shortage of claims that certain crystals block/absorb electromagnetic fields (EMF). Independent of whether EMF is actually harmful, does a crystal on a necklace protect a significant part ...
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Is the Infinity MG10 a working generator that consumes no fuel?
Infinity Sav are a company pushing a product, the MG10 which is available for pre-order which, they claim, can generate electricity without consuming fuel - i.e. is a free energy machine.
The ...
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Do electromagnetic fields affect stress and the fight or flight response?
ArmoredSkeptic said on a recent video about ghosts that:
EM fields actually trigger our fight or flight response
Is that true?
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