Is the video with the popcorn being popped by cell phones fake? Despite a bit of controversy about just how much power it takes to pop popcorn, everyone in the physics blogosphere agrees it simply ain’t happening.
But now the mystery of the origin of the video can be laid to rest as well. Here’s the website of the marketing company who produced them.
Here’s my original Pt. 1 post.
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1 Rettaw // Jun 14, 2008 at 6:25 am
“We are very happy to have made this contribution to an important international public debate.”
Well that’s a peachy way of saying you have produced a convincing lie and proceeded to spread it all over the world.
Incidentally, just how easy is it to pop popcorn using a microwave? I’ve only tried popping single kernels once, and that didn’t go too well. So I wonder if one could make a decisive home experiment (using popcorn), with dramatic consequences, to falsify this.
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