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General Science / Re: Physics - Odd effect on metal?
« on: 01/12/2012 05:20:05 »
Hi,
thanks for the reply, well it was placed on a bed, over a wooden floor on a concrete foundation, it was perfectly flat and even, and I watched it form in about just under two seconds right under my eyes. there is no heat source or anything within a meter around it, just me looking at it, and no I don't have any special powers :p Can you speculate on the safety of something like this, as I would expect it only occur if there was heat like from a conduction cooker or some other high energy source like microwaves or high powered radio or even from light it would take a fair amount of power to generate the heat needed to turn a flat piece of aluminum foil to look like that so quick. The light in the room which it was not under is about 1.5m away from it (energy saving bulb), no power lines unless they are in the foundation. I assume the effect of distortion would be caused by heat generated in the metal? Any other ideas?
thanks for the reply, well it was placed on a bed, over a wooden floor on a concrete foundation, it was perfectly flat and even, and I watched it form in about just under two seconds right under my eyes. there is no heat source or anything within a meter around it, just me looking at it, and no I don't have any special powers :p Can you speculate on the safety of something like this, as I would expect it only occur if there was heat like from a conduction cooker or some other high energy source like microwaves or high powered radio or even from light it would take a fair amount of power to generate the heat needed to turn a flat piece of aluminum foil to look like that so quick. The light in the room which it was not under is about 1.5m away from it (energy saving bulb), no power lines unless they are in the foundation. I assume the effect of distortion would be caused by heat generated in the metal? Any other ideas?