How to create your own plasma show..... at home.

[airdronian]

Apparently this has been a thing for quite some time. I bet Mr. Hardy has tried this already.

Why microwaving grapes creates a dazzling plasma light show | CBC News

 

[GuyK]

That's cool stuff right there!

 

[mhardy6647]

Uh-oh. This was not a good thing for me to learn.

In a synchronicitous coincidence* we actually have a plasma ball here.


photo by our son -- source: This Old Camera: Search results for plasma
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@airdronian, see what I did there?

 

[airdronian]

Uh-oh. This was not a good thing for me to learn.

In a synchronicitous coincidence* we actually have a plasma ball here.

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photo by our son -- source: This Old Camera: Search results for plasma
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@airdronian, see what I did there?

I did indeed.

And I am making a point to NOT show the video above to my teenaged son. Maybe in a few years when he owns his own microwave.

 

[mhardy6647]

 

[mhardy6647]

I sent the YT link to my son the mathematician.

His response verbatim.

i mean, why would you microwave grapes

My response to him (again verbatim).

Well... if you have a microwave, and if you have grapes, and if you are of a suitably scientific bent...
I mean, not to knock mathematicians, but, us scientists see the world a different kind of differently than all y'all do...

source: xkcd: The Difference

 

[GuyK]

"...a different kind of differently..."

I like this. I can see this as a useful phrase for a plethora of new instances.

 

[mhardy6647]

I -- ahem -- was rather proud of that turn of phrase.
No doubt that mathematicians see the world differently than do... umm... I.
I am terrible at maths. Like, embarrassingly terrible at maths.