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Discussion Off-Topic Room Topic started by: Frank_Baker on Jun 9, 2015



Title: Is this biologist right?
Post by: Frank_Baker on Jun 9, 2015
I saw a news article and so I asked this biologist at my university if it was possible for cell metabolic heat to suddenly set somebody's skin on fire.

She said it was 'impossible', 'because at about 90 C enzymes in cells break down in nanoseconds'  So is she right? The media tells me otherwise. This woman has a Ph D.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: bio_man on Jun 9, 2015
She said it was 'impossible', 'because at about 90 C enzymes in cells break down in nanoseconds'  So is she right?

She is right. An enzyme is 1x10^-6 of a meter. It would disintegrate into carbon instantly.

We've discussed this before.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: Frank_Baker on Jun 10, 2015
so that means every single claim of SHC is false?


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: bio_man on Jun 10, 2015
Every last one of them.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: Frank_Baker on Jun 11, 2015
but baby Rahul's mother angrily denied child abuse and the whole family supports her claim. including the husband she had a second child recently and it happened to him too. but her daughter doesn't burn.

I remember reading about cases where people suddenly felt their skin was hot, and smoke came from it


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: bio_man on Jun 11, 2015
lol No, it's all fake.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: Frank_Baker on Jun 11, 2015
how can you be certain it's all fake? some things once thought to be impossible were later found to be possible.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: bio_man on Jun 11, 2015
how can you be certain it's all fake? some things once thought to be impossible were later found to be possible.

It is fake due to a lack of scientific proof/evidence that satisfies *my* logical mind.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: Frank_Baker on Jun 11, 2015
Just because these people weren't hooked up in labs before it happened doesn't mean it did not or could not happen.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: bio_man on Jun 11, 2015
True, but they don't have to be. This claim is simply absurd.


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: Frank_Baker on Jun 11, 2015
in terms of biology, how? theres a difference between absurd and impossible


Title: Re: Is this biologist right?
Post by: bio_man on Jun 11, 2015
in terms of biology, how? theres a difference between absurd and impossible

We've discussed biologically why it's fake, not interested in entertaining that notion again (and again)