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Re:Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lit... by marcosdumay on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:18AM (#27412956)
Personally, I read it as "mostly unmodelled, difficult to calculate experiment behaves in a way no scientist ever predicted, but not very far from what simpler ones do".

If I was looking for something to research, I wouldn't pick this one. It's not strange enough to compensate for how hard it is to understand it. (But then, I wonder how I the photoelectric emission fits on that dimension...)

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Re:Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lit... by dr_dshiv on Sunday June 06, 2021 @10:12AM (#27413288)
If I understand, you are saying you wouldn't try to empirically research this because 1. burning salt water isn't strange enough and 2. it would be difficult to calculate and model.

That seems reasonable and yet unfortunate. It seems like the kind of experiment that a scientist would try to undertake out of sheer curiosity.

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