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  • bleistift2tomemes@lemmy.worldWomp womp
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    4 小时前

    Not all chemistry ‘works better’ at higher temperatures

    I was referring to Arrhenius’ equation. Of course that doesn’t apply anymore when you reach denaturation temperatures. Very high fevers are deadly.









  • Paraphrasing a Scandinavian who gave an interview I once saw in a TV documentary about the correction system in some nordic country:

    Once that perpetrator gets out of prison and rents an apartment next to you, would you rather he was subject to inhumane punishment? Or would you rather he was treated like a human being and learned how to behave in society?



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    5 小时前

    High temperature isn’t there to kill pathogens. Instead it’s there to help the immune system, because biochemistry (chemistry in general) works better in higher temperatures.

    Source: “Immune” by Philipp Dettmer.




  • You took a great deal of liberty in interpreting my comment. There is no anti-intellectualism there. That’s all in your head. My statement “I can create plasma using a candle and a microwave” was aimed at the reporters.

    When the research is aimed at eventually building a power plant, then running the process for several minutes without even guesstimating an efficiency factor (or not reporting on it) seems very odd. We can be sure that energy was set free, which the researches must have had to dispose of somehow. I can’t imagine that they just blindly dumped it somehow without even checking how close their dumping process was to failing.

    If you’d like to know what a constructive answer would’ve looked like, this is one: https://feddit.nl/comment/15463960