Some thought provoking warnings that are only slightly more ridiculous than some I’ve actually seen!  Attached as labels on furniture or equipment in the room?  Student contest?  Headings on top of tests as a tension breaker?  Warning: Physics and non-physics types reactions may vary dramatically.

WARNING:  This product warps space and time in its vicinity. Use with appropriate caution.

WARNING:  This product attracts every other piece of matter in the Universe, including the products of other manufacturers, with a force directly proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them squared.

CAUTION:   This product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of mass.

HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE:  This product contains minute electrically charged particles moving at velocities in excess of five hundred million miles per hour.

CONSUMER NOTICE:  Due to the "Uncertainty Principle", it is impossible for the consumer to determine at the same time both precisely where this product is and how fast it is moving.

ADVISORY:  There is an extremely small but nonzero chance that, through a process known as "tunneling" this product may spontaneously disappear from its present location and reappear at any random place in the universe. The manufacturer will not be responsible for any damages or inconveniences that may result.

THIS PRODUCT IS 100% MATTER:  In the unlikely event that this product should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic explosion will result.

PUBLIC NOTICE AS REQUIRED BY LAW:  Any use of this product, in any manner whatsoever, will increase the amount of disorder in the Universe. Although no liability is implied herein, the consumer is warned that this process will ultimately lead to the heat death of the Universe.

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