Violating Betteridge's Law

Does a Magnet Gun Conserve Momentum?

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no'”. But this is a physics topic, and conservation of momentum is a pretty well-established law if there is no net external force on the system. So we expect the answer to be “yes”. Thus you can tell Rhett is not a headline-writer looking to stir up controversy, else he would have written something like Does a Magnet Gun Violate Conservation of Momentum?

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Looks like a fun toy, and I’m a sucker for fun toys. To the bat cave lab!