These guys are known for their "Kopi Luvak" or "Civet" coffee, which is coffee made out of the feaces of a certain cat or civet. This cost is the result of a very unique and somewhat unconventional way of processing those beans. You see, the beans are first eaten by civets (small, cat-like mammals), who then pass these beans through their digestive systems. The same undigested beans are later collected from their faeces.
Just outside the shop is a famous, actually, world famous equation, which is a play on the real one, which replaces the actual elements with Energy, Coffee and Milk.
A little history to this equation -
Eighteenth century theories on the correlation of ____ and ______ included that devised by the English scientist Isaac Newton in 1717, who speculated that light particles and matter particles were interconvertible in "Query 30" of the Opticks, where he asks: "Are not the gross bodies and light convertible into one another, and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter their composition?"Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, in his Principia of 1734 theorised that all matter is ultimately composed of dimensionless points of "pure and total motion". He described this motion as being without force, direction or speed, but having the potential for force, direction and speed everywhere within it.
Which miraculous equation, often synonymous with the notion of science itself, is being played on by Coffee Chemistry?
e = mc ^ 2 (energy = milk * coffee^2)
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