“I see miracles all around me
Stop and look, it’s all astounding
Water, fire, air and dirt
Fucking magnets, how do they work?” -Insane Clown Posse
Oh, Insane Clown Posse, is there any amount of education that could ever change you? On the one hand, magnetism is a lot more counterintuitive than simple mechanics, I certainly won't deny it. But on the other hand, it certainly makes a lot of amazing things possible, things we might never have even tried had we not understood the physics and predicted them!
Image credit: John C. Wiley & Sons.
Come find out, read the whole thing, and be amazed at our incredible quantum Universe and the things it allows us to do!
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“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” -Jean-Luc Picard
Yesterday, I showed you a video of an amazing incidence of magnetic levitation.
Fun! Here's another nice video from the Royal Institute where the track is a Mobius Strip so the superconductor "hangs" off the bottom on alternate trips around. It's neat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPqEEZa2Gis
Too cool!