xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems
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'Tin pest' makes more sense to me. Tin just doesn't want to be locked down in a shape like that. I get it. But why would any metal want to grow hair??
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3115/
A colleague of me did his PhD exactly on the last topic.
And does he know why? I've had to deal with it too often and it would be really nice to be able to expand RoHS to aerospace.
https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/tin-whiskers-experiments-and-modelling
Oh, but of course! The deviatoric strain, yes.
Did he found a cure for baldness?
Well, if you are willing to coat your head with copper and some tin on top, you can grow yourself some tin whiskers. Yet, I don't know if they make a good replacement for hair.
shaving is gonna be an adventure
There is no cure for baldness, else Bezos would have a mane.
Elon has hair plugs that admittedly look pretty good. I think Bezoa just lost his hair too quickly to fool anyone.
Nah, it also doesn't fool anyone. it looks like a toupee, except that he can't take it off.
It looks better than his natural hair did
No, but those zinc ingots now have great mustaches!