Reminds me of the scene at the end of Real Genius when they get their laser chemical laser to finally work and it puts a hole through the building.
Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
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Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#22I think the most likely doomsday scenario involves this type of weapon.
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#23Now my question is, can it damage SSD? Or interfere with my wifi? Is it strong enough to alter my brain?
Some examples of Tesla unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(unit)#Examples & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(magnetic_...
8 T – the strength of LHC magnets
11.75 T – the strength of INUMAC magnets, largest MRI scanner
16 T – magnetic field strength required to levitate a frog
17.6 T – strongest field trapped in a superconductor in a lab as of July 2014
35.4 T – the current (2009) world record for a superconducting electromagnet in a background magnetic field
45 T – the current (2015) world record for continuous field magnets
100 T - Strongest pulsed non-destructive magnetic field produced in a laboratory
1200 T - Record for indoor pulsed magnetic field, (University of Tokyo, 2018)
2800 T - Record for human produced, pulsed magnetic field, (VNIIEF, 2001)
1 MT - 100 MT - Strength of a neutron star
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#24Could you put a machine (that wasn't powered by TNT or something equally crazy) into a space ship for protection from cosmic rays? Is that something people are looking into?
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#25Anti-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!
I was waiting for Gordon Freeman to emerge from behind the machine with his crowbar...
Wouldn't that be a red letter day.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#26Anti-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!
I was waiting for Gordon Freeman to emerge from behind the machine with his crowbar...
Half life 3 confirmed
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#27Anti-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!
> 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?
Well you're going to need something that reacts to magnetic fields in some way. In that sense iron isn't an odd choice.
Anything that isn't susceptible to magnetic fields is not going to do much, even if its conductive that can only help against brief bursts.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#28Could you put a machine (that wasn't powered by TNT or something equally crazy) into a space ship for protection from cosmic rays? Is that something people are looking into?
I don't have a source on hand but I have read some study that theorized a very powerful electromagnet in a mars-sun lagrange point could be used to create a magnetic field to shield mars from cosmic radiation in a similar way to earth's magnetosphere. I seem to remember the power needed being (obviously) very large but surprisingly not many orders of magnitude out of plausibility. For a much smaller entity than a planet (spaceship) it may be possible with a low enough power consumption to make it possible. I would imagine there would be many many engineering concerns with having such a high powered magnet in your spaceship though.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#29Now my question is, can it damage SSD? Or interfere with my wifi? Is it strong enough to alter my brain?
Some examples of Tesla unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(unit)#Examples & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(magnetic_... 8 T – the strength of LHC magnets 11.75 T – the strength of INUMAC magnets, largest MRI scanner 16 T – magnetic field strength required to levitate a frog 17.6 T – strongest field trapped in a superconductor in a lab as of July 2014 35.4 T – the current (2009) world record…
Wow, 2800T is .28% of a neutron star? That is pretty impressive.
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#30It blows my mind that we can compress a magnetic field with chemical explosives. I wouldn't have expected them to interact much at all.
>> 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...
This is the link I was looking for in the comments, thanks.