Diamagnetic Levitation. High Field Magnetic Laboratory. Nijmegen
Levitating Frog
Levitating Strawberry
Yeah leviating frogs and strawberries with diamagnetic levitation is fucking cool, but it actually is quite useful/important. They can test the effects of weightlessness on living things. Pure, large protein crystals grow much better in a microgravity environment so diamagnetic levitation is also useful in this regard.
New Scientist: Magnetic gravity trick grows perfect crystals [Article]
Also, I have just been informed as I am writing this that Benoit B. Mandelbrot (The father of fractal geometry) has passed away (1924-2010). At least he lived a decent and relatively long life.
In memory of Benoit Mandelbrot here are pics of the Mandelbrot set (each image is a magnification of the image before it)
I was just telling my girlfriend about levitating objects with two magnets the other day! I couldn't remember who had done the testing or when it was...thank you very much for posting this. It led me to all the answers I was looking for.
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ReplyDelete@ Ankiseth: you are very welcome and I hope the girlfriend enjoys as well ;)
ReplyDelete@Shaun'dre: how profound...witty, yet probably one of the nicest things that can be said about the man in regards to his death. :)
Wow those pics look awesome
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