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New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla [video]

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Re: New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla [video]

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Youtube says the video was posted 4 days ago, but some comments are 4 years old? Although under the description it says 'First Published: 25 Sep 2018'.

that ten second video played in a web browser and IMMEDIATELY jumped to an ad-filled marketing one. The YouTube experience is visibly deteriorating

Re: New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla [video]

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post #5

Youtube says the video was posted 4 days ago, but some comments are 4 years old? Although under the description it says 'First Published: 25 Sep 2018'.

that ten second video played in a web browser and IMMEDIATELY jumped to an ad-filled marketing one. The YouTube experience is visibly deteriorating

Not using newpipe.

Re: New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla [video]

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post #5

Youtube says the video was posted 4 days ago, but some comments are 4 years old? Although under the description it says 'First Published: 25 Sep 2018'.

that ten second video played in a web browser and IMMEDIATELY jumped to an ad-filled marketing one. The YouTube experience is visibly deteriorating

Are you using a browser window with a disabled uBlock Origin?

Re: New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla [video]

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I'd love to see Someone familiar with high magnetic fields answer this: what exactly is going on and why did it blow up?

My guess(reading the article now) is that it is an explosively formed magnetic field. that is, the explosion is part of the process.

For EM fields(same thing?) you can build a flux compression generator, a coil of wire around an explosive rod. run a current in the wire to form a magnetic field, as the explosive explodes from one end to the other the field compresses to form a high energy pulse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

edit: As best I understand, it is similar to an explosively formed field but uses one magnet to compress the other. the explosion was halfway expected, the compressed magnet was expected to tear itself apart, however the field was higher than expected and damaged the enclosure.

Re: New Magnetic Field Record: 1200 Tesla [video]

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post #16

I'd love to see Someone familiar with high magnetic fields answer this: what exactly is going on and why did it blow up?

My guess(reading the article now) is that it is an explosively formed magnetic field. that is, the explosion is part of the process. For EM fields(same thing?) you can build a flux compression generator, a coil of wire around an explosive rod. run a current in the wire to form a magnetic field, as the explosive explodes from one end to the other the field compresses to form a high energy pulse. https://en.wikipedia.o…

Interesting - initially, I bought that the explosion might have been caused by the magnetic field, like an arc, not the other way around.
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