Able to produce a magnetic field of 88 tesla, the machine is expected to reach 100 Tesla.
According to this story the force comes from a generator from an abandoned nuclear power project that supplies 1.4 billion watts of power.
Power from this generator is stored and pulsed to create the massive magnetic fields.
(Video above is a gratuitous look at a nuclear power station exploding.)
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Around 8000 light years away, it's is known variously as the "Eye of God" the "Hourglass Nebula", and more poetically, MyCn18.
You find yourself stranded in the jungle, up a mountain or on a desert island with nothing but a few simple household items.
All you need is an electric motor for a way out of your predicament.
As the video above reveals you can build an electric motor with nothing but a battery, a nail, a wire and of course a magnet.
Then, fully equipped, you can helicoptor your way back to safety or something.
What a buzz.
]]>The precise process employed by Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark is still unclear, but some claim magnetism was certainly involved.
Maybe this is what's happening in the alleged teleporting cat video below.
The cat in question looks like it's travelling between two magnets for sure.
]]>A US company called Artistic Tiles has developed a system of floor tiles that need no mortar or grout or other sticky stuff to stick to the floor.
Instead, the tiles are attached a flexible rubber steel or galvanized sheet metal that lies between between the concrete, or whatever the floor is made from.
You can rip up the floor and change it when ever you feel like changing the color from brown, to black and white cow spots.
Perhaps if you walked on such a floor wearing these you might find yourself rooted to the spot.
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A study by the US air force found that a huge ring of superconducting magnets (something like the above particle accelerator) could hurl satellites into space.
Probably make a great weapon too.
This magnet based system would reportedly be much cheaper than conventional rocket launches. But the intense g forces developed during launch might crush the payload like a tin can on a train track.
]]>Click on the video below to see a simple gauss gun toy in action.
Roll one ball into the magnet and a knock-on effect adds force until the projectile is shot into whatever direction it's pointed (hopefully not into your eye).
Is there any practical use for them apart from as entertaining videos?
The most often cited possible is as a weapon (just what the world needs). But gauss guns might also come in handy for propulsion in space.
Want to make your own gauss gun? Check out the instructions here.
]]>The accident is reported to be due to human error, and occured when the train struck a maintenance vehicle while travelling at 125mph. Wreckage was scattered over a wide area.
Only one of these magnetically propelled trains is operational worldwide. Located in Shanghai the train connects the Pudong International Airport and the Lujiazui financial district.
This video gives you some idea of how it feels to travel over 300 miles an hour, on a vehicle that floats on a magnetic forcefield 0.4 inch above the track.
]]>This month is the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the first disk drive, IBM's RAMAC.
IBM didn't actually invent the idea of storing data with magnetic material on metal disks. That honor goes to an engineer called Jacob Rabinow, who was working for the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.
RAMAC was originally meant to have drums rather than disks. But the final design featured 50 metal platters, spinning at 1,200 RPM with a recording density of about 100 bits per inch.
That's about 5MB.
RAMAC was the size of a piano. But it worked along exactly the same principles as the disk drive you can see whizzing away with the lid off in this video.
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That's according to this video.
Presumably the screw hangs there spinning like some crazed metal transcendentalist because the juice of the lemon also sends juice along the wire which develops and electrical field precisely aligned to the grooves in the screw caused by....
Whatever. Who knows how this thing works?
]]>A guy called James Morris has inserted magnets into skateboard trucks. According to the article, "The production prototype has not yet been tested as to its efficiency ratios. The input versus output proportions have not yet been quantified experimentally."
However Mr Morris says, "You get on this thing, and it goes like twice as far for the same push."
Like, hopefully your board won't end up sticking to steel railings when you perform the kind of crazy stunts depicted in this video dude.
As the guy says on his website, magic or magnets?
The jury is still out.
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Click the image above to see a demonstration of "magnetic water"
A bar painted in magnetic looking colors is held above water, which then reacts to the bar.
Presumably the bar is a magnet. But the water?
Is it science or just a video trick?
]]>This story seems to suggest that would-be passengers even attempt to eject drivers' kids and commandeer the car on family outings.
With magnetic taxi signs they'd be able to disguise their vehicles when in civilian use.
Letting the drivers apply magnetic taxi signs at their own expense seems a very reasonable solution.
So determined are the drivers to magnetize their cabs, they are threatening to take the Crawley Council to court.
That would be sticking it to them.
]]>Specifically this company sells magnets you clamp on to things to make the fluid inside flow more efficiently. You could apply it to aircon plants, fuel systems and yes, sewage pipes.
Below shows such magnets clamped to a coolant pipe.
Published experiments on Magnetizer's site report this treatment measurably improves the efficiency of aircon cooling systems.
It's easy to be skeptical of this kind of claim. Very easy.
So before you go installing one of these devices, be sure to look at both sides of the story.
]]>Steorn claim to have invented a perpetual motion machine by harnessing the power of magnetism. This diagram from their video explains how it works. Basically, the little green ring goes whizzing around in circles.
From their site: "Steorn’s technology produces free, clean and constant energy. This provides a significant range of benefits, from the convenience of never having to refuel your car or recharge your mobile phone, to a genuine solution to the need for zero emission energy production. It also provides a secure supply of energy, since the components of the technology are readily available."
As the response to these claims prove, magnetism can sure attract a lot of attention.
Which is probably Steorn's primary goal.
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