Power Bands and Cubing

[Bapao]

Lol the placebo effect is unlikely to work

Guess so...was worth a yrt hguoht...

 

[aronpm]

I'm not saying it's likely to work, but had you actually tried it before you decided it didn't work?

"Humans can't fly"
"Have you even tried?"

 

[Dene]

meh they look cool so just buy one of the cheaper and fake ones lol

Lol you're silly. I think you're the only person in this thread that actually believe power bands work.

 

[Keroma12]

"Humans can't fly"
"Have you even tried?"

You've never tried to fly?

 

[RNewms27]

Even though it's just a mental thing, your abilities can improve if you still believe it works with magnets. That's just about all it can do.

 

[JLarsen]

Well if one band is a 3 second improvement, then surely 2 is 6, and 3 is 9, and so forth. Just imagine. It could be non-linear though. You should buy at least 50 to be safe.

 

[cubersmith]

"Humans can't fly"
"Have you even tried?"

No but thats TOTALLY different.

You've never tried to fly?

LOL'd

 

[luke1984]

No but thats TOTALLY different.



LOL'd

No, it's not. Magnets do not give people magical powers, everyone who understands people can't fly should be able to understand that.

 

[Stefan]

Magnets do not give people magical powers, everyone who understands people can't fly should be able to understand that.

Whether or not a person flies is quite obvious and everybody observes many people not flying all the time every day. Whether magnets affect powers isn't that kind of clear in any way at all.

 

[luke1984]

Whether or not a person flies is quite obvious and everybody observes many people not flying all the time every day. Whether magnets affect powers isn't that kind of clear in any way at all.

Agreed. But when people don't know anything about electromagnetism, why would they assume it will make you run faster, or be a better speedcuber, rather than assume it doesn't have any effect on our bodies at all(at least not when it's a small, hand-held magnet). People come in contact with electromagnetic fields all the time, a small magnet on your wrist won't suddenly make you superhuman, and most people are intelligent enough to figure this out themselves. It's just that they want it to be true, they want life to be that easy.

 

[timelonade]

Perhaps if you bought 2 powerbands and a large magnet you could fly by magnetic repulsion.


POWERBANDS WORK AND HUMANS CAN FLY

 

[Stefan]

why would they assume it will make you run faster, or ...

Because they're told so. Sometimes by people they trust, like Shaq or Oprah (The Secret).

People come in contact with electromagnetic fields all the time

And how are they supposed to know that? It's not something you can easily see, unlike (non-)flying people.

a small magnet on your wrist

Small? Well, my screws etc never move at all from those electromagnetic fields I come in contact with all the time. But with a "small" magnet I can easily make them move. In quotes because compared to those electromagnetic fields I come in contact with all the time it's apparently huge.

 

[aronpm]

Whether or not a person flies is quite obvious and everybody observes many people not flying all the time every day. Whether magnets affect powers isn't that kind of clear in any way at all.

My point wasn't that the mechanism clearly doesn't work, but that the idea has been tested enough times that it's pointless to even bother checking for yourself.

 

[luke1984]

Because they're told so. Sometimes by people they trust, like Shaq or Oprah (The Secret).



And how are they supposed to know that? It's not something you can easily see, unlike (non-)flying people.



Small? Well, my screws etc never move at all from those electromagnetic fields I come in contact with all the time. But with a "small" magnet I can easily make them move. In quotes because compared to those electromagnetic fields I come in contact with all the time it's apparently huge.

You are right, I was wrong to compare the "small" magnets to everyday magnetic fields. But people learn about magnetic fields in school, or at least I did.
I guess my point was just that people believe almost everything they're told by some authority figure.
Recent research has actually shown people shut down their own thought processes when an authority figure tells them something.

 

[Stefan]

My point wasn't that the mechanism clearly doesn't work, but that the idea has been tested enough times that it's pointless to even bother checking for yourself.

Yah, I didn't have a problem with your post (hence I didn't reply to it and now even had to look up what you had said . For you with what you know, I agree the two things are rather equivalent, I just disagreed with luke1984's assertion that it should be equivalent for everyone.