Blue Eye: Officially The Lamest Rip off Ever

It was a couple of weeks back when I found myself laughing at some TV shopping show. And yes, it was the “Blue Eye”. See above.

It shields its owner from ‘omens'. Oh guddie, do I order it?! No, don’t forget to hear the scientific explanation.

The negative energy from the ill desired person claims control over the victims body.

Seems like the ‘energy’ made it sound scientific. Or did it?

Well, I’m not saying energy can’t be negative: gravitational and electrostatic potential energy, and even frictional energy are mathematically considered negative. But there is an explanation which does not resort to anything like “negative mass”. Consider 2 objects placed a distance apart, with absolutely no external forces/torques. Now according to Uncle Newton, we must do some ‘work’ (in the physical sense which is: work done = force applied * distance covered by the subject). Well, the work done here will indeed be positive: force is applied in the direction the subject moves (and if the subject moves in a direction opposite to the direction of the applied force, work done, and hence energy expended is negative). Gravitational forces are always attractive: if the objects move away, or are separated, work done by the gravitational force of attraction is negative; if the 2 bodies are intimately distinct and mutual attractive forces operate, it’s analytically legitimate to assume there was some initial work done to separate them. What happens to this work? Yes, that’s right, potential energy. If the initial work done is positive, to conserve the net energy, the gravitational potential energy ought to be negative.

So, there is some kinda ‘negative energy’ which only an ‘ill desired’, or rather 'evil eyed' person is supposed to posses. And that negative energy may very well override the brain and control the body. Sounds reasonable.