Physicists Turn Pull Into Push 60
sciencehabit writes "It's textbook physics: An electric charge near the surface of a material gets pulled toward the surface. However, if the charge is spread out into the right shape and moves fast enough, that attraction becomes a repulsion, one physicist calculates. The odd finding could help physicists avoid unexpected effects when guiding beams of particles such as electrons."
They could have just asked any geek (Score:2, Funny)
They seem to have that repulsion charge with girls.
Great explanations (Score:5, Funny)
It's textbook physics: An electric charge near the surface of a material gets pulled toward the surface. However, if the charge is spread out into the right shape and moves fast enough, that attraction becomes a repulsion, one physicist calculates.
This finally explains so much about women's behaviour towards me.
Re:They could have just asked any geek (Score:5, Funny)
So you are saying that if a geek guy stops and listens to a girl, that she'll find him attractive?
Re:They should work on the reverse (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They should work on the reverse (Score:5, Funny)
Why didn't I think of that? A matter beam. Brilliant.
Re:They should work on the reverse (Score:5, Funny)
All personal at battle stations: Fire the matter beam!!
*poke*
Re:They could have just asked any geek (Score:4, Funny)
I have data points that indicate this to be correct at least some of the time. There may be just a little more to it of course, but I'm sure future physics papers will give us some more hints.
Pretty sure those are just outliers. Are you sure p from your dataset is remotely close to 0.05?
Re:They could have just asked any geek (Score:3, Funny)