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#chocolate

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Replied to Prof Heino Falcke
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Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

@hfalcke, this call for an interdisciplinary study!

doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f7198

The BMJ · The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational studyObjective To quantify the consumption of chocolates in a hospital ward environment. Design Multicentre, prospective, covert observational study. Setting Four wards at three hospitals (where the authors worked) within the United Kingdom. Participants Boxes of Quality Street (Nestlé) and Roses (Cadbury) on the ward and anyone eating these chocolates. Intervention Observers covertly placed two 350 g boxes of Quality Street and Roses chocolates on each ward (eight boxes were used in the study containing a total of 258 individual chocolates). These boxes were kept under continuous covert surveillance, with the time recorded when each chocolate was eaten. Main outcome measure Median survival time of a chocolate. Results 191 out of 258 (74%) chocolates were observed being eaten. The mean total observation period was 254 minutes (95% confidence interval 179 to 329). The median survival time of a chocolate was 51 minutes (39 to 63). The model of chocolate consumption was non-linear, with an initial rapid rate of consumption that slowed with time. An exponential decay model best fitted these findings (model R2=0.844, P<0.001), with a survival half life (time taken for 50% of the chocolates to be eaten) of 99 minutes. The mean time taken to open a box of chocolates from first appearance on the ward was 12 minutes (95% confidence interval 0 to 24). Quality Street chocolates survived longer than Roses chocolates (hazard ratio for survival of Roses v Quality Street 0.70, 95% confidence interval 0.53 to 0.93, P=0.014). The highest percentages of chocolates were consumed by healthcare assistants (28%) and nurses (28%), followed by doctors (15%). Conclusions From our observational study, chocolate survival in a hospital ward was relatively short, and was modelled well by an exponential decay model. Roses chocolates were preferentially consumed to Quality Street chocolates in a ward setting. Chocolates were consumed primarily by healthcare assistants and nurses, followed by doctors. Further practical studies are needed.
#chocolate#epidemiology
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Prof Heino Falcke

My colleague Michael Wondrak has conducted an evaporation experiment of Ferrero-Rocher chocolate confection and compared it to our predictions for evaporation via a Hawking-like gravitational pair production, that we published recently ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024

Unfortunately, the results don’t quite match the theory. Evaporation happened much quicker. Not sure why 🤔.

A graph illustrating the relationship between the lifetime (τ) in years and density (ρ) in grams per cubic centimeter. Key points represent various astronomical objects and phenomena, including dark matter, a human body, planets, and different types of stars, and a piece of chocolate.
The image features a theoretical background on an experiment regarding Rocher evaporation, discussing the Hawking and Schwinger effects in relation to particle production. Two images are presented: one shows a bowl of chocolate treats and the other contains handwritten notes about the experiment.
An image featuring text from a research paper discussing the results and conclusions related to "Rocher matter" and its decay over time, including future plans for experiments. References to theoretical background and publication details are also included.
#astrodon#physics#hawkingradiation
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