I was flying back from Washington, D.C. on Tuesday when I got a little bored. So I picked up the SkyMall catalog to see what outrageously expensive crap they had.
These three items piqued my curiosity, so I ripped the page from the catalog.
Put your bottle of 2 Buck Chuck on one of these, and then somehow the magnets "realign the particles." Pardon my language and borrowing from Penn & Teller, but Bullshit!
I've dealt with this issue once before in Swirling Wine. In my Electricity and Magnetism course, the students understand that magnets interact with other magnets, and they come to understand that a magnet does not necessarily have to be those things we stick to out refrigerator. Electrical currents (moving electrons) also interact magnetically. That's why we have electromagnets.
While there might be tiny, tiny amounts of iron in the wine, there is no process in which magnets will change the character of cheap wine.
Now if I could get golfers to stop buying the magnetic bracelet crap.
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