stackyFACTSRené Blondlot desperately wanted France to have its own cool radiation to rival Germany’s newly discovered X-rays, so he literally manifested them out of pure nationalistic delusion.
René Blondlot desperately wanted France to have its own cool radiation to rival Germany’s newly discovered X-rays, so he literally manifested them out of pure nationalistic delusion. Entire teams of early 1900s scientists published papers on the elusive 'N-rays', measuring them with specialized prisms. It all fell apart when a visiting skeptic secretly removed the main prism during a live demonstration, and the French scientists claimed they could still see the rays.
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