Adding grapes to microwave setups doubles the magnetic field strength, opening doors for smaller, more efficient quantum sensors.
Lmao yes technically correct. The grapes aren’t doing anything new, they’re acting as a microwave resonator which makes some very interesting plasma physics you can do with a grape in the microwave. However, this is not a new phenomenon and there are much more convenient microwave resonators you can build out of metal.
Interestinengineering.com’s bread and butter seems to be churning out low-effort articles targeted at laypeople who know fuck about shit and talking up every single minor new invention or discovery they can find as the craziest, most crucial thing ever. Written by laypeople who know fuck about shit (this one’s written by a BA in history despite being on, you know, quantum physics). See also: Gell Mann amnesia.
Honestly seems like a trash website, and fluffing the hell out of any and every random discovery is bound to be damaging to the public perception of science in the long term.
Only because it seems like it’s targeted at adults. Target it at kids, and you’re going to spark some real scientists from articles like this.
Didn’t even have to read the article to know it was grape plasma
Oh? More convenient than a bunch for a few bucks, found at any grocery? Jk but…
Jesus this is bad science, and bad science reporting. There was a paper specifically focusing on why grapes burn in microwave - turns out two spherical objects with certain properties tend to focus microwave radiation on the point right in between. Use that knowledge and make some proper antenna instead.
Your criticism is just sour grapes
Mom, the quantum resonator is out of phase again!
Just give it two grapes, dear.
It’s funny how a month ago people in Lemmy were all bragging about every little piece of science being important to further understanding the world and that Republicans canning even a single minor study could lower our ability to come up with new things.
And here’s a bunch of people treating this like it’s garbage and are above it.
Hypocrites as always. Never change.
Yes because as we all know those two groups of are absolutely 100% garunteed to be made up of the exact same people.
They added microwaves to a grape.
Good ol’ pre-wine
