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I know for them to work ULs have to be sort of believed although usually they are too good to be true but there are somethings that we assume which are pure myth and I ran across the one about tapping your can to stop it foaming on Snopes declaring it false:
www.snopes.com/science/sodacan.htm
I remember being taught this one on a school trip and being very impressed that it worked and over the years we have debated why it won't actually work for beer, etc. However, it appears this is just the same kind of break down in causality that underpins a lot of "magical" thinking (I'm sure when the can has foamed over I have thought that is was because I had somehow not tapped ithe can properly or enough).
So did anyone else think this worked or is it just me (or in fact is Snopes worng)? Also is there anything else like this that you thought was just the way things worked which turned out to be little more than superstition?
www.snopes.com/science/sodacan.htm
I remember being taught this one on a school trip and being very impressed that it worked and over the years we have debated why it won't actually work for beer, etc. However, it appears this is just the same kind of break down in causality that underpins a lot of "magical" thinking (I'm sure when the can has foamed over I have thought that is was because I had somehow not tapped ithe can properly or enough).
So did anyone else think this worked or is it just me (or in fact is Snopes worng)? Also is there anything else like this that you thought was just the way things worked which turned out to be little more than superstition?