Throughout the video I was wondering what possible practical applications there could be. I got it at the end: "we use this effect to engage people who are otherwise not so interested in science".
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Earlier in the video they say it could be used to cool microchips.
Seems like a stretch... the examples in the video were around 400-500F
You just use a liquid that boils at a lower temperature
That's an i9 chip without proper cooling.
Could be used to win bets for free drinks in a bar, shame you'd probably get kicked out for wielding dangerously hot metal plates before you've had a chance to drink them.
Never a good idea to drink hot metal plates
But how are you supposed to drink them when they are cold and solid?
Maybe in emulsion?
If we somehow ended up extinguishing gravity and we start floating upside down. Good to know we can now post water upwards.
Although thinking about it, water would float upwards too..
I wonder if this could be used as the opening scene of a persuasive documentary on vaccines, it's pretty mesmerizing. Maybe an innocuous "How does it work?" theme with 10 phenomena, with one of them being vaccines.
It is still best to help the ignorant leading it to not being mesmerized.
When it comes to vaccines in a comprehensive scope, I suspect there is no Human that is not at least somewhat ignorant (or not all knowing), and delusional to at least some degree. The "science" aspect is but one part of a much more complex picture.
So let us have awareness campaigns, and make them unassailable by being perfectly honest - instead of furthering attempted manipulation ("mesmerizing people for persuasiveness through innocuous documentaries about the wonderful") as if it were aproblematic behaviour, and as if normal actually-adults would not be consequently exposed to dubious campaigns, with dubious results.
I do not know about many places around the world, but in some areas it is normally told to children in primary school that "well, before these milestones you had an important risk of measles or poliomyelitis" - just as part of the history of science and achievements, primary school level. Which again suggests that treating people like adults - even very "underage" - remains an important recipe to obtain, in the end, Adults.
To my thinking, a documentary that competently critiques folks on "both sides" of the argument would be an interesting strategy to try. As a conspiracy theorist myself, I think my idiot brethren might be able to open their minds a bit and be more reasonable for a change under those circumstances.
Thoughts?