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What prevents forgers from generating such magnetic fields? That might be worth while if people start to blindly believing that "pottery frozen magnetic fields

What prevents forgers from generating such magnetic fields? That might be worth while if people start to blindly believing that "pottery frozen magnetic fields are not possible to counterfeit". Note that "not possible to counterfeit" is not a claim in the article.

po1nt 8d ago
I would love to see such counterfeiting. The gear they would need to get and the scientists.
- awesomeusername 7d ago
  Some wire and DC? and Claude et al
adrian_b 8d ago
From TFA: > “So it’s hard for us to be ahead of the forgers since they can read our papers and figure out ways to trick our methods.”
Cthulhu_ 7d ago
It's one of several techniques they can apply, at least. I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery, or that there's a market for it.
- p-e-w 7d ago
  > I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery Because people desire owning ancient pottery and are therefore willing to pay for it.
  - charlieyu1 7d ago
    Forgery is so ancient that we have forgery ancient items made in ancient times
- mschuster91 7d ago
  > I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery People have paid top dollar for archeological artifacts for centuries. Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers, illegal artifact hunting and unreported thefts of stuff getting exposed after stuff like forest fires.
  - fn-mote 7d ago
    > Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers […] Don’t forget the major scale destruction wrought by wars (religious and otherwise) - eg in the Middle East. You might also want to count cultural theft. (Where are the gates of Babylon now??)
bell-cot 7d ago
> What prevents forgers from ... Cost. Same as them fooling carbon dating, electron microscopes, isotope analysis, and a host of other techniques. Forgery has always been about how cheaply you could make fakes, vs. the odds and consequences of them getting enough scrutiny to be identified as such.
- brookst 7d ago
  It’s the banknote thing: at some point a great forgery costs more than the real thing.

po1nt 8d ago

I would love to see such counterfeiting. The gear they would need to get and the scientists.

awesomeusername 7d ago
Some wire and DC? and Claude et al

adrian_b 8d ago

From TFA: > “So it’s hard for us to be ahead of the forgers since they can read our papers and figure out ways to trick our methods.”

Cthulhu_ 7d ago

It's one of several techniques they can apply, at least. I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery, or that there's a market for it.

p-e-w 7d ago
> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery Because people desire owning ancient pottery and are therefore willing to pay for it.
- charlieyu1 7d ago
  Forgery is so ancient that we have forgery ancient items made in ancient times
mschuster91 7d ago
> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery People have paid top dollar for archeological artifacts for centuries. Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers, illegal artifact hunting and unreported thefts of stuff getting exposed after stuff like forest fires.
- fn-mote 7d ago
  > Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers […] Don’t forget the major scale destruction wrought by wars (religious and otherwise) - eg in the Middle East. You might also want to count cultural theft. (Where are the gates of Babylon now??)

bell-cot 7d ago

> What prevents forgers from ... Cost. Same as them fooling carbon dating, electron microscopes, isotope analysis, and a host of other techniques. Forgery has always been about how cheaply you could make fakes, vs. the odds and consequences of them getting enough scrutiny to be identified as such.

brookst 7d ago
It’s the banknote thing: at some point a great forgery costs more than the real thing.