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Oneofakind magnet open for science
physorg.com — The world's most powerful pulsed, nondestructive magnet is now ready to explore the frontiers of high magnetic field science - after 10 years of research, major instrument development, and construction.
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- lord138, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1I wonder if this kind of technology could be used or leveraged in building space guns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun- Aliasing, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Your first clue in that that comment was poorly thought out was that your wikipedia reference was to a article showcasing a Jules Verne sketch.
- glmory, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0That is a lot of magnetic field, whatever you launched into space would have to be pretty damn tough to make it. However you are getting up to a magnetic strength that it wouldn't surprise me if you could make something go to space.
I have seen what a one and a half tesla magnetic field can do, and something a hundred times as strong is hard for me to imagine...
- Jernej, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0i could use one of those, no idea what for tho..
- Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Haha, oneofakind, I get it...hah...wooo
- greymaxcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Once is is made mobile the RIAA is planing on using it to bulk erase hard drives from orbit...
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I wonder if you turn it on when that guy in the picture is in there beside it, if it sucks all the iron out of his blood like Magneto did in the second X-Men movie. That would be cool. Huh-huh. Huh. (Beavis and Butt-Head reference.)
- achoo5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For those unfamiliar with the measurement of magnetic fields, I will provide an order-of-magnitude scale.
0.000005 Tesla - Earth's magnetic field
0.001 Tesla - Refrigerator magnet
1 Tesla - Junkyard magnet for picking up cars
3 Tesla - a LARGE magnet in a physics laboratory (aka big enough to give your professor a raging boner) - bdunford, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It might be fun to work on that project, except the part about having to enter that code every 108 minutes.
- Metalcastr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I was just going to say "what island are they going to put it on?"
- kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think some people LOST the reference you are tring to make.
- kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I have a feeling that warp drive is coming soon to a theater near you!
Well not a theater, but high fields may let us probe strings and perhaps manipulate them. Now if we can only get 100T nanofields geometries. Thats what it may take.
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