Can Scotch Tape Really Produce X-rays?

[vanesch]

A colleague showed me this:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2008.1185.html



I first laughed at him, until he showed me it was published in Nature...

 

[ZapperZ]

Pssst! I posted this almost a week ago.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1926696&postcount=73

Zz.

 

[Phrak]

That's as ridiculous as light being produced from collapsing air bubbles.

 

[vanesch]

Pssst! I posted this almost a week ago.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1926696&postcount=73

Zz.

 

[Redbelly98]

That's as ridiculous as light being produced from collapsing air bubbles.