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> just blew the doors off an iron enclosure intended to contain the massive magnetic field Now, I'm by no means a physicists, but aren't iron enclosures particularly bad at containing magnetic fields?
the iron enclosure was meant to contain the explosion not the field.
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> just blew the doors off an iron enclosure intended to contain the massive magnetic field Now, I'm by no means a physicists, but aren't iron enclosures particularly bad at containing magnetic fields?
The magnetic field will tend to concentrate in the iron, meaning it shouldn't propagate as far. Same as using Mu metal for magnetic shielding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal
I'm kind of amazed they were even able to record a video in a 1200 Tesla magnetic field.
Magnetic fields tend to decay with distance from the source which helps.
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The magnetic field will tend to concentrate in the iron, meaning it shouldn't propagate as far. Same as using Mu metal for magnetic shielding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal
It shouldn't propagate, but the whole thing should be magnetized at that point, right? While you've got that electro magnet on you could probably stick fridge to the big iron magnet you've created with the container?
edit - ahh, reading through you mean during the experiment, rather than it being left magnetized afterward.
During the test it should focus field lines within it. The overall strength of the field will remain the same, but field lines will be concentrated on the cage, meaning it does not propagate as far.
Though there should be people on here that will be able to explain this better than I can. And correct me if I am talking rubbish. I am solidly an amateur on this, and there are definitely some professionals floating about.
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> just blew the doors off an iron enclosure intended to contain the massive magnetic field Now, I'm by no means a physicists, but aren't iron enclosures particularly bad at containing magnetic fields?
From a tiny bit of experience, I know that industrial electromagnets (think of the ones they use to pick up steel at a scrap yard) often have an iron/steel housing that is used as a "return path" for the field. The front face of the magnet has a field that projects out into the air, but the field on the back face gets channeled into the housing.
It blows my mind that we can compress a magnetic field with chemical explosives. I wouldn't have expected them to interact much at all.
They don't interact directly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...
Vice really needs to hire some proofreaders.
Is it strong enough to alter my brain?
Anti-clickbait: they didn't blow up their lab, just blew the doors off an iron enclosure intended to contain the massive shockwave, which turned out to be even more massive than intended. Still impressive though!