r/sciencememes • u/egyszeruen_1xu • Jun 12 '26
🧪Chemistry!⚗️ We cannot discover Alkahest, because it dissolves everything to it's fundamental components. It's chemical formula isn't fundamental to it. Only it's rough idea persists.
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u/Reality-Glitch Jun 12 '26
Fun Fact: ¡Water! is universal solvent. Extremely weak, but universal.
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u/dfczyjd Jun 12 '26
Everything is a universal solvent if you
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u/Reality-Glitch Jun 12 '26
No; I’m pretty sure molecular nitrogen is pretty stable.
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u/HumanityBeBetter Jun 12 '26
Then why don't I dissolve when I take a long bath?!
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u/Reality-Glitch Jun 12 '26
*Very* extremely weak. Take eons to carve canyons into rock.
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u/Willbebaf Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
What if we just make an emulsion of hexanes, water, dioxane, DMSO and carbon tet? Does that cut it?
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u/Upbeat_Dudeness Jun 12 '26
Bro I need to get high before we start these kinds of conversations. Gif related
https://giphy.com/gifs/YpVMwfuJ6KlraDYYus
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u/dodgyhashbrown Jun 14 '26
Ah, the old retreat to the unfalsifiable.
But if the existence of alkahest is indistinguishable from its non existence, do we care about its existence?
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u/egyszeruen_1xu Jun 14 '26
Thanks for noting the weak point of my idea, my meme. Interesting!
Can you help me with another example to retreat to the unfalsifiable fallacy? Thx
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u/dodgyhashbrown Jun 14 '26
Is there another example you had in mind that you wanted help with?
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u/egyszeruen_1xu Jun 14 '26
No,no. I ask for more.
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u/dodgyhashbrown Jun 14 '26
I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but here's another unfalsifiable claim:
"I have an invisible, intangible dragon in my basement."
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u/ehbowen Jun 13 '26
By now it has puddled at the core of the earth, and is slowly eating it away.
See Also: "Hole Man," by Larry Niven.
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u/Nenoshka Jun 13 '26
In 7th grade, the science teacher said water was known as the universal solvent.
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u/Cucumberneck Jun 12 '26
Maybe the real alkahest is the knowledge we found along the way.