A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
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Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#2Frogs are the new LK-99?
Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#3Frogs are the new LK-99?
LK99 might just be the discovery of a new way to fool yourself about the meissner effect, flux pinning, etc. Or not! But here's one way. These are exciting times!
Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#4Any chance of magnetically repelling a person from a ceiling, and/or attracting them from the floor, to create artificial gravity in space?
Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#5Any chance of magnetically repelling a person from a ceiling, and/or attracting them from the floor, to create artificial gravity in space?
Just have them wear clothes made with ferromagnetic material, should have a similar effect.
Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#6Any chance of magnetically repelling a person from a ceiling, and/or attracting them from the floor, to create artificial gravity in space?
No. The magnetic field needed increases as the size of the levitated region increases. For something as big as a person the magnetic field would require magnets made of impossibly strong materials to resist the JxB forces.
Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#7A fun fact is that, if memory doesn't fool me, the levitating frog experiment was carried out by Micheal Berry and Andre Geim, and they were awarded the ignobel for it.
Berry is the same one of the Berry phase for which he received a ton of non-humorous awards, and Geim went on to discover graphene and receive a Nobel without the ig in front.
Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#8Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#9A fun fact is that, if memory doesn't fool me, the levitating frog experiment was carried out by Micheal Berry and Andre Geim, and they were awarded the ignobel for it. Berry is the same one of the Berry phase for which he received a ton of non-humorous awards, and Geim went on to discover graphene and receive a Nobel without the ig in front.
Is Geim the only person so far to receive a Nobel after receiving an Ig Nobel?
Re: A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video]
#10The really impressive part is where the frog turns into a grasshopper. (just combing someone's comment from youtube)