{"id":10628,"date":"2011-12-27T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2011-12-27T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T08:00:12","slug":"violating-betteridges-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10628","title":{"rendered":"Violating Betteridge&#039;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/12\/does-a-magnet-gun-conserve-momentum\/\">Does a Magnet Gun Conserve Momentum?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines\">Betteridge&#8217;s Law of Headlines<\/a>:  &#8220;Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word &#8216;no'&#8221;.  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 &#8220;yes&#8221;.  Thus you can tell Rhett is not a headline-writer looking to stir up controversy, else he would have written something like <em>Does a Magnet Gun Violate Conservation of Momentum?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z7CyPtF0ChA?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z7CyPtF0ChA?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Looks like a fun toy, and I&#8217;m a sucker for fun toys.  To the <del datetime=\"2011-12-26T14:07:31+00:00\">bat cave<\/del> lab!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a Magnet Gun Conserve Momentum? Betteridge&#8217;s Law of Headlines: &#8220;Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word &#8216;no&#8217;&#8221;. But this is a physics topic, and conservation of momentum is a pretty well-established law &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}