The fire of Notre Dame: it seemed like a miracle, but a tweet with scientific data revealed the truth

A photo of a cross that shone on the altar of Notre Dame after the fire was enough user to talk about a miracle. Your message has quickly become viral on the networks. Divine work? That does not seem.

"After the aftereffects and the destruction by the fire of Our Lady, the altar and the cross remained intact. Please, explain to me how you can not believe in God after seeing thisKaylee Crain wrote on her Twitter account.

The message received more than 20 000 RT and 80 000 I like, but also many answers: more than nine thousand. Many found "flaws" in the false miracle that Kaylee thought she had discovered. Best of all is the one that has refuted it with scientific data.

"The gold melts at 1064 ° and the wood burns at a temperature of about 600 °Dan Broadbent explained in his @aSciEnthusiast account, a play on words with "a science enthusiast. "His message was much more viral than the false miracle: 190 000 RT and more than 600 000 I like it.

In a second message, Dan was much more direct: "WOOD FIRE DOES NOT slow down the gold."

The fire at Notre Dame

The investigation who tries to find an explanation at the fire of the Notre-Dame cathedral He made a major breakthrough Wednesday. A hypothesis establishing that the flames could come from a short circuit generated by the scaffolding lifts, that the workers used to restore the roof and that the central hand takes strength.

The President of France, Emmanuel MacronHe stressed that the reconstruction of the cathedral would be ready in five years, as announced Tuesday. "It's a perfectly acceptable moment," said Stéphane Bern, head of heritage missions at the presidency.