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Offline MP-Ryan

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Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
on: October 18, 2011, 11:26:49 am
So it's not exactly groundbreaking, but it's a pretty neat visual demonstration:

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Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #1 on: October 18, 2011, 12:18:41 pm
Quite marvellous.
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #2 on: October 18, 2011, 12:23:23 pm
I kept on trying to make a diamagnetic levitation rig when I was a youngling, but I didn't have the skills necessary to make it exact enough.
 

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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #3 on: October 18, 2011, 12:35:57 pm
SCIENCE!
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #4 on: October 18, 2011, 01:20:14 pm
I've seen that when some guys from cryo labs came to our school. In addition to standard tricks with cryogenics (stuffing inflated balloons into a bottle or shattering a flower), they cooled a block of superconductor in liquid nitrogen and made a magnet float above it.
 

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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #5 on: October 18, 2011, 01:59:00 pm
Why didn't I do this for my science for all those years ago?
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #6 on: October 18, 2011, 03:04:47 pm
* watsisname wants room temperature superconductors :(
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #7 on: October 18, 2011, 03:46:05 pm
Holy ****. So much potential for 3d modeling. O_O
 

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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #8 on: October 18, 2011, 03:51:19 pm
Prety Cool.
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #9 on: October 18, 2011, 04:04:13 pm
Quote from: Darkage on October 18, 2011, 03:51:19 pm
Prety Cool.
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #10 on: October 18, 2011, 04:12:04 pm
im kinda more interested in ionocraft myself. superconductor levitation never really interested me.
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #11 on: October 18, 2011, 04:14:05 pm
Heh, I just saw this earlier today.  Sure beats the hell out of that Levitron spinning magnetic top I have.
 

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Reply #12 on: October 19, 2011, 05:29:57 am
Anyone else find it hilarious that it essentially looks like a floating cookie ? :) LOL
 

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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #13 on: October 19, 2011, 08:57:26 am
He moves the thing...the thing gets locked in the air.
I'm like: wtf?
The rest of the video I'm looking for David Copperfield somewhere on the background.
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Re: Making objects float in thin air (magnetism + superconductors)
Reply #14 on: October 19, 2011, 09:04:00 pm
Interesting...
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