(2019-06-23, 03:09 PM)Max_B Wrote: Yes, one way is simple work hardening. I have seen special spoons for sale in the past to achieve this trick, but cannot find them now... the spoon is formed from a metal which has a structure which is easily dislocated, so can be easily deformed (bent). But the action of bending causes the dislocations to get tangled up and locked together, causing the metal structure to become very stiff. Hence the prepared spoon can initially be very easily bent, but cannot be bent again.
http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/impress/t...ns_02.html
You can see a simply demonstration here using a prepared metal bar...
Yes, it probably wwent exactly like this. I can't take Radin seriously after this, he is a believer, he wants to believe. His bias, in my opinion, is just too big.