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Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos
New submitter schrodingersGato writes "Researchers at the Los Alamos campus of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory achieved a record-setting 100.75 Tesla magnetic field. To do this, scientists placed a resistive magnet (a sophisticated electromagnet) coupled to massive bank of capacitors within another magnet fixed at a 'lower' magnetic field. A short-lived pulse two million times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field was generated. The magnet itself made an eerie sound as it was energized (video). Prepare for the birth of Magneto!"
And it's pretty clear that high school physics was where your understanding ended.
Re: closed loops
Grab a plasma physics text (which is highly applicable in the regime of astrphysical charged particles) and learn about the conservation of magnetic moment. This was the basis for Z-pinch style devices attempting fusion towards the end of the cold war, and it's also the basis for why charged particles stuck in the earth's magnetic field DON'T just completely fry the northern and southern poles, but rather bounce around from the north to the south magnetic poles (I'm sure you've learned this in your high school classes as well?)
Also, try to understand how modern day fusion devices such as tokamaks do not contain all of the closed loop magnetic field lines within the containment vessel itself, but are able to direct leakage particles to areas specifically designed for high energy charged particle impacts (divertors).
Re: EMP:
The whole point was that OP's excitement was based on a complete lack of understanding of just how differently steady-state and transient responses can be in the realm of physics. This experiment in question being at one end of highly transient, and the avoidance of EMP related chip frying being on the other. That you can wonderfully point out the grey area that occurs between the two extremes deserves almost a pat on the back I guess... but if that were the case people could make careers out of just stating the obvious.
Master's in plasma physics and I have a moron who can't do math try to bluff while quoting shit from high school, really?