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Magnetic Fields As Youve Never Seen Them Before [pics+video]

environmentalgraffiti.com — A stunning new film shot at the NASA laboratory at UC Berkeley reveals the secret lives of magnetic fields as they morph and twist in space - but are we observing a scientific experiment, the universe in flux or a documentary of a fictional world?

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  • iBeej, on 07/11/2008, -17/+39As homer would say... "Mmm... magnetic spaghetti.... aaawwhwhhh"
  • BryanG412, on 07/11/2008, -5/+31...I've never seen an actual magnetic field...
    • sangres, on 07/11/2008, -1/+42It's not real it's all animated but it's based on the magnetic sounds recorded.
    • rugabug, on 07/12/2008, -3/+19Yes you have http://www.flickr.com/photos/daynoir/2181293650/.
      • plnegative1, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4This is why I don't like these pictures or videos... they have the direction of the fields changing, but in a picture like that... the pieces of metal are organized..... they're not being shifted around constantly
      • sinkhead, on 07/12/2008, -1/+3That's the effect of a magnetic field on some iron filings. The human eye can't actually see magnetism as far as I know.
      • SuicideMouse, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4We see only the result on iron filings created by a magnetic field here. (The source too, not all of it though)
        From this we can imagine and theorize what the field would look like, thats it.

        AFAIK, we can't actually see the field here, only it's effect.

        It's like how we see the leaves blow and pollen fly in the wind, but we can't see the wind.
        From there we can imagine what it looks like and how it moves.
        (Yes I know that this exampler is very simplified but I just want to make it clear)
    • xptoast, on 07/12/2008, -3/+3I wonder if you could make magnetic fog? A fog that is magnetically influenced and is colored maybe? Anyone have any ideas of what you could do to do that?
      • TheStrongForce, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Its a fun idea but the magnetic field would assert a force on the fog and then the fog would slowly drift towards the end of the line and congrigate in once place.
    • knol, on 07/12/2008, -0/+9ferrofluids for the win!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5OhZ9wT568

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me5Zzm2TXh4

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBxCnHU8Ao
      • xptoast, on 07/12/2008, -3/+1That isnt a cool enough thing. I know about those I just would like to do it with a fog that is colored so you could see dense areas and that is where the lines would be at.
    • Goonder, on 07/13/2008, -0/+5You've never seen anything _but_ magnetic fields. Light is an electromagnetic phenomenon.
  • 5DMT, on 07/11/2008, -18/+16Is this real? Seems animated...
    • theysayjump, on 07/12/2008, -1/+33RTFA:

      "The pair took recordings of magnetic currents from all over the universe and used them to create animated visualisations of geophysical phenomenon."
    • PabloMac, on 07/12/2008, -3/+5I sense an ironic attraction in these photos.
      • crazycraka, on 07/12/2008, -1/+1Yeah they made me kinda horny too..
    • michigander, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Wish they were real but the fifth paragraph down says these are animations, aka "fake" .
    • bhavinp, on 07/13/2008, -1/+1Don't know why you are being dugg, this is absolutely amazing. This is totally something new ive never seen before, anyone could mistake it for animation. Anyone know where to buy those mini ones?
      • betheturtle, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1It is animated, bhavinp. It is animated to look like what fields would look like were they visible. Reading: it comes in handy.
    • dlite922, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1animated or not, when "jesus comes back", I want to show him this. If he says God is doing it, i'll slap him right across the face.
  • austang, on 07/11/2008, -2/+8Above is the toilet float takeing off at tremendous speeds!
  • skewl, on 07/11/2008, -13/+59I still think they are a myth just like "gravity"
    • uncertainty, on 07/12/2008, -3/+5...and evolution. They're all theories after all.
      • Iztikeit, on 07/12/2008, -2/+1All theories talking about the same phenomenon, somehow. So, you could argue that all current theories are watered down bologna.

        but you're just making a creationist joke, which is hardly novel at this point in history
    • rocklobzter31, on 07/12/2008, -5/+2I hope your joking. How can you not believe in gravity. Throw something up in the air.
      • Fozefy, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2Fail. He's obviously just joking. Also, the fact is that we don't actually have any idea how gravity actually works. Yes we know how it effects things, what an objects gravitational field is and how to measure the force that objects fields put on other objects. We know all this but don't "know" how or why it works, so what we know could just be a "myth", especially if you start to considering something like E=MC^2. (An objects mass is what determines its gravitational field and if that is changing what does that mean to its gravitational field?)
      • Magnut, on 07/13/2008, -0/+0Fail @ fozefy for falling for obvious troll
    • ultraelite, on 07/12/2008, -1/+9Gravity is just a theory like evolution, scientist don't really know what causes it. Personally I believe god in his omnipresence is pulling us on toward the ground, I call it "intelligent pulling".
  • Anglemona, on 07/11/2008, -1/+12The beauty of magnificent forces..
  • monkeychops, on 07/11/2008, -6/+18magnetic spaghetti monster maybe?
    • Waterrat, on 07/12/2008, -3/+1Yup.
    • SSUK, on 07/12/2008, -3/+4You will be attracted to his noodly appendage...
    • Narrwald, on 07/12/2008, -0/+57 comments to get from magnetic fields to the symbol of theist mockery. Well done, sir.
  • MacBookForMe, on 07/12/2008, -3/+4so mysterious and artistic, yet every day mother nature):
  • stayathomejobs, on 07/12/2008, -1/+10Wow ... that video was pretty impressive .. I wonder how much of that affects us on a daily basis?
    • HonestAbe, on 07/12/2008, -1/+8I don't know. How much does someone drawing meaningless lines on pictures affect your daily life?
      • ligyron, on 07/13/2008, -0/+3Well, if you're referring to doing coke off the Mona Lisa...
  • DeathWish808, on 07/12/2008, -2/+6That's wild. Reminds me of The Ring or The Grudge for some reason. :-)
    • Avaseal, on 07/13/2008, -1/+0Well that's an insult if I ever heard one
  • cemetz, on 07/12/2008, -13/+5another one from reddit.... cool though, sounds like hitting a high tension wire.
  • pinkpackrat, on 07/12/2008, -2/+4very cool!
  • ameologger, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4will looks nice on my desktop // that is as far as i can use it
  • UserNull, on 07/12/2008, -7/+100We are just witnessing His Noodly Appendage.
  • OSX1337, on 07/12/2008, -0/+14I really like their last album. Too Drunk To Dream is a great song.
    • milkmit, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3Whew, I thought I was the only idiot to assume at a glance that this was about the band....
    • duckiedeity, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2thumbs up
    • joel8x, on 07/13/2008, -0/+4I really thought I was going to see Stephin Merritt nude.
  • ferrell, on 07/12/2008, -3/+21Dugg for "Hairy balls"
  • EatingPie, on 07/12/2008, -3/+12The article was vague on how these images were created. There seemed to be some measurements, then animation added to correspond. They did *not* use film sensitive to magnetic-field, as it looks like in the images.. (Did they?) Given the scope of the images -- how complete the fields look -- I have to wonder how accurate the animations really are.

    -Pie
    • HonestAbe, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2They aren't accurate at all; it's just a "so kewl!" animation.
  • CarStan, on 07/12/2008, -1/+41Dont cross the streams!
  • gk128, on 07/12/2008, -2/+25Damn I thought this was going to be about the band, The Magnetic Fields.
    • facelesscoward, on 07/12/2008, -0/+15Dugg because, even though I don't know you, the fact that we both thought the same thing when we read the title of this submission makes me feel like we can relate in a completely impersonal way.
    • derbestemann, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1yeah, what a shock, could diggers actually like good pop music!?
      ...nope, just silly flashy pop science for all the pseudo-nerds out there
      xP
    • tastypastry, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
  • theysayjump, on 07/12/2008, -4/+2Slimer at 4:05.
  • monkeyhoward, on 07/12/2008, -2/+7Papa Was A Rodeo
    • selfobsessed, on 07/12/2008, -1/+4Mama was a rock n' roll band.
      • ladbroke, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1I could play guitar and rope a steer before I learned to stand.
  • Daiken, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2The same video can be played from Vimeo on the second page, rather than YouTube on the first. It seems to be better quality. Then again the crackling sounds and jittery movements were annoying me.
  • microview2007, on 07/12/2008, -1/+105th paragraph down; "The animations are ..." nuff said.
  • kailash079, on 07/12/2008, -2/+5already dugg a while ago...
  • tripledjr, on 07/12/2008, -10/+9***** stupid, lets do a fake study then draw lines and try and sound like we know what were talking about.
  • booshack, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4Oh yeah this is why I study electrical engineering. Fundamental forces FTW.
    • romistrub, on 07/12/2008, -2/+3Psh, electricity is so 1940s. Photonics is THE FUTURE ( future ... ( future ... ( future } } }.

      Seriously, though. ERTW.
    • booshack, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Not true, IH5CLW, but i don't know if festivals count.
    • TheStrongForce, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Lawl engineer, go make something from what some physicist discovered please, thanks bye.
  • Chalks777, on 07/12/2008, -2/+13"Magnetic Fields As You've Never Seen Them Before"

    Naked?
  • EricSancho, on 07/12/2008, -6/+4Behold the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
  • blacktriangle, on 07/12/2008, -3/+3He's using a plugin called Trapcode for After Effects.
  • swaters210, on 07/12/2008, -2/+2Makes you feel important knowing that you live on the only habital planet known to man and it can produce such a thing.
  • isuisorisuaint, on 07/12/2008, -4/+4so high...
  • Theod48, on 07/12/2008, -3/+2this was just on digg a couple of weeks ago and no its animated
  • fillkon, on 07/12/2008, -3/+1I was somewhat disappointed at first that it wasn't real, but it's still cool nonetheless how it's illustrated. Makes the concepts of magnetic fields that much more attainable.
  • nmcvicke, on 07/12/2008, -3/+6Am I the only person who first thought this was about the band Magnetic Fields?
    • hotpuck6, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3nope, cause there was like 5 posts and references above you.
  • aserer511, on 07/12/2008, -2/+1This submission is radically funnier after having watched The COre for the third time 2 days ago.
  • mangasm, on 07/12/2008, -3/+2Correction: "Magnetic Fields As Youve Never Seen Them ... since last week! [pics+video]"
  • JPresEFnet, on 07/12/2008, -8/+3photoshopped
  • heradecart, on 07/12/2008, -6/+0I cant believe that any of you would be fooled by this. Anyone who dugg this should probably check out the Sedona vortex hoax as well, it'll blow your small minds.
  • 06metzp, on 07/12/2008, -8/+2LOL HAIRY BALLS HAHAHA

    actually, I thought the funniest part was that the narrator acknowledged the humor of the term by laughing
  • aleksandar, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Try searching for magnetic sculptures video. Some really cool stuff!
  • randomguy132, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Cool... but I like many here want to know more about how it was created.
  • jsbyrnes, on 07/12/2008, -1/+1Even if you could see magnetic field lines, they look nothing like this. Cool animations, but it's just silly.
    • Jokimoto, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Really? Kindly enlighten us, O Guru of Hidden Wisdom...
  • XenoSNK, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2I was scared that you meant the band, and that all of a sudden something new and bad was going to happen. That's a relief.
  • DewJake, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3Did she say "Harry Balls"?
  • Trigonometron, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2Buried, lame animations folks. Did you really think that there is some magical camera that makes lines appear?
  • mattlohkamp, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4Oh, I was thinking this was more of a "Daniel Handler naked" kind of thing. No? No one else knows The Magnetic Fields? Oh well.
  • zebco, on 07/12/2008, -1/+4I thought this was about the band as well. I was wondering how so many people would be interested in The Magnetic Fields. Once I met this girl on the internet who was really into them...we finally met up at a bar and she was twice as big as she was in her pics.
    Not that I was shocked or anything but she did turn out to be a big girl.
  • melissa1031, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2d'oh! thought it was about their great new album. astrophysics is pretty sweet too i guess ;)
  • HonestAbe, on 07/12/2008, -2/+4Duplicate story. And scientifically meaningless, to boot.
    • Iztikeit, on 07/12/2008, -1/+1If history has taught me anything it's never say "scientifically meaningless"
    • Paranoidmarvin, on 07/12/2008, -1/+2And of course, you are the person that decides what science is valid and what isn't
      • TheStrongForce, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1This is a disappointment to physics. I was actually excited when I read this, but upon seeing it I was really sad. First of all, if you know anything about fields, they always start somewhere and end somewhere. Electric fields go from positive to negative. Magnetic fields go from north to south. They always END somewhere, unlike this video where they're just twisting around. Also, as fields get stronger as the lines get closer together, all the lines in this video are the same spacing even when close to their source. And some of the sources are RIDICULOUS, a pile of nails, a weird looking device, a flat mirror. One last thing, field lines never cross. Most laboratory electromagnets look like this: http://www.nanomagnetics.org/instrumentation_and_c ...

        If anything this article should be called, Dancing Lines, not magnetic fields visualized. For christs sake, Nasa doesn't even do anything with magnetic fields in their labs. Dugg down for Disappointment.

        //works at a Magnetic Materials division in a government laboratory.
  • axisdelasal, on 07/12/2008, -4/+3I hate when Digg.com becomes repetitive REEEEEEPOST
    • TruthLies, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1I hate when Digg.com becomes repetitive
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    • tehzombie, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1I hate when Digg.com becomes repetitive REEEEEEPOST
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