> “We’ve proven that under ultrasound excitation the coronavirus shell and spikes will vibrate, and the amplitude of that vibration will be very large, producing strains that could break certain parts of the virus, doing visible damage to the outer shell and possibly invisible damage to the RNA inside,” says Tomasz Wierzbicki, professor of applied mechanics at MIT.
Why say they have proven it, when all they have done is a simulation and they have not demonstrated anything? It seems like they have a hypothesis, not that they have "proven" anything.
Also, at least as a layman, the RNA comment makes me a little worried about this technique leading to the accidental creation of a stronger mutant virus.
Why say they have proven it, when all they have done is a simulation and they have not demonstrated anything? It seems like they have a hypothesis, not that they have "proven" anything.