There’s a story floating around the internet, I can’t comment on its truthfulness, that 3M accidentally created one in one of their factories back in the 80s.
Allegedly the plant made adhesive tape, and as such had enormous rolls of plastic that were being spooled or unspooled by machines at very high speed, and at one point the right conditions existed for static electricity to build up in such a way that it created a sort of invisible wall that people were unable to pass through.
You’re conflating two phenomena. Peeling adhesive tape produces xrays, and only in a vacuum. The 3M forcefield is from unspooling and slitting rolls of regular plastic.
Peeling tape off carbon blocks also creates Graphene.
Clearly, science just needs to accelerate the peeling of tape off things in variations of surface, material, and velocity to unlock all the universes mysteries
There’s a story floating around the internet, I can’t comment on its truthfulness, that 3M accidentally created one in one of their factories back in the 80s.
Allegedly the plant made adhesive tape, and as such had enormous rolls of plastic that were being spooled or unspooled by machines at very high speed, and at one point the right conditions existed for static electricity to build up in such a way that it created a sort of invisible wall that people were unable to pass through.
It was confirmed by the dude who did it.
You’re conflating two phenomena. Peeling adhesive tape produces xrays, and only in a vacuum. The 3M forcefield is from unspooling and slitting rolls of regular plastic.
And a quick google found a reddit post where a secondary source popped up to discuss the event: https://old.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/9jig1l/can_you_confirmdebunk_the_3m_electrostatic/
Peeling tape off carbon blocks also creates Graphene.
Clearly, science just needs to accelerate the peeling of tape off things in variations of surface, material, and velocity to unlock all the universes mysteries
I wonder if this story, true or not, is related to the fact that peeling Scotch tape can produce x-rays.
Exactly where the notion came from.