Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
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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
#2Anti-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!
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#3I'm kind of amazed they were even able to record a video in a 1200 Tesla magnetic field.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#4Anti-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?
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#5Anti-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?
It had a lot of holes, maybe that has something to do with it. Looked like a giant microwave door screen.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#6I'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.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#7Anti-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?
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
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#8Anti-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?
the iron enclosure was meant to contain the explosion not the field.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#9Anti-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?
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.
Re: Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
#10Vice really needs to hire some proofreaders.