# Have you heard of "metamaterial"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-metamaterial/934042>\
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**Created:** [March 1, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-metamaterial/934042 "2021-03-01T16:19:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-metamaterial/934042/21 "2021-03-02T18:18:16Z")

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Oooh, I sure hope so! That would be cool!

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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-metamaterial/934042/22 "2021-03-02T21:31:21Z")

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Well, Silly Putty is a “non-Newtonian fluid”. That’s a fairly mundane thing (ketchup and toothpaste are also non-Newtonian fluids), but the name might sound cool enough to entice CT believers to think that aliens must be involved.

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**Author:** ![48Willys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/db5fbb/32.png) [@48Willys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/48Willys)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-of-metamaterial/934042/23 "2021-03-15T10:29:33Z")

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[abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij), Wrote in part: “There are, in fact, pizza restaurants, and basements, and pedophiles. Just not all in the same place.”

Are you sure about that? I suspect that there is a basement pizza parlor in some town, somewhere, that every now and then is frequented by a pedophile. I cannot name the town, the pizza joint, nor the pedophile, but that does not mean that they do not exist.

I do know that there are basement pizza joints. I have frequented a couple of them. Sadly, I know of a few pedophiles that like to eat pizza.

_I tend to agree with the sentiment of your statement._ It is just that I doubt that you, I, or anyone else could know for sure that this Pizza restaurant/pedophile combonation does not exist somewhere.

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