World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction

Source: Discovery News



Using the strongest materials known to man, scientists are building the most powerful electromagnet in the world -- one that won't blow up a split second after it's turned on.

The entire magnet will be a combination of coil sets weighing nearly 18,000 pounds and powered by jolts from a massive 1,200-megajoules motor generator. Once activated, the new magnet should be about two million times more powerful than the average refrigerator magnet.

"The new magnet at the High Field Lab is a fantastic leap forwards in terms of our capability as a scientific community to explore materials under extreme conditions," said Ian Fisher, a scientist at Stanford University.

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The pressures generated inside the insert will be equivalent to 200 sticks of dynamite going off together, or about 30 times the pressure at the bottom of the ocean.

Read more: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/11/strongest-magnet.html

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Yay science! :)

will go flying across the country.

If we could rake that over beaches and parks we'd make a fortune!

It'll be pulling them right out of space. :P

from the earths crust an create an instant volcanic eruption! This sounds like something this guy would do.


His experiments never worked out too good if I remember right.

That trick never works.

Moose and Squirrel

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That way all the metal being sucked into the black hole created by the super collider can be collected and sold for scrap.

:rofl:

It's good to hang around people who enjoy their intelligence.

and the kind of cerebral humor that happens with such a group. Welcome to DU, ColoradoMagician!

...He would have made a giant "I Heart New York" cover to go on top of it.

+10 pts for anyone who gets the reference :P

heh