Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

wormie said:

The abstract is unfuckingreadable. And not because it's technical. These dumb fucks just create some word salad and call it science.

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In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability.

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Article said:

Doctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that's on the rise. Although it's early and the study is small — 35 people — every patient responded and all but two were in some level of remission within two months. In a second study of nearly two dozen patients, everyone above a certain dose responded.

Experts at an American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago, where the results were announced Monday, say it's a first for multiple myeloma and rare for any cancer treatment to have such success.

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• Shawyer's claims of kN-scale thrusters: disproven.
• Shaywer's and Fetta's claims that they had already made mN-scale thrusters: disproven.
• Shawyer's claims of partnerships with defense + aerospace: disproven. [Boeing looked once, decline to license]
• Yang's claim of observing ~1 mN/W: disproven. Her lab couldn't reproduce any thrust at all.
• White's claim of observing ~1 μN/W, 2y ago: never replicated; based on few observations; after many negative trials. Further trials are not being run.
• # of prototypes passed from one lab to a second lab, for the second lab to test + confirm, over 15 years: 0.
• CAST's claim they privately tested an EmDrive & are sending it for tests in space: unconfirmed, reported in only one news story, by an unknown staff member w/ no known physics lab.

So is the case closed? Isn't this what disproof looks like? [If not, what would it look like!] Of course the original inventors will never give up hope, if the Dean Drive and Gyroscopic thrusters are any indication. But it seems the EmDrive has joined those ranks.

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