Nolondil Wrote:
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> Edit: The elements contained in the alloys must be
> known. The universe is made up of the same stuff.
> So what exactly do they mean by "unidentifiable"?
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> Very good observation. This is a classic example
> of what the skeptics call 'woo'. Elements are
> elements. They can be identified through all sorts
> of methods, even when combined with others in
> compounds such as minerals or alloys. Claiming
> that some physical substance 'cannot be
> identified' is just melodramatic garbage like you
> would read in (poor) scifi stories.

Well, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. They're journalists, not physicists. It probably would have been better to say an alloy we're not familiar with, or an alloy with a molecular arrangement we've never seen before.

Or something along those lines.