Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos

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Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 23, 2012 @07:27AM from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

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!"

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In unrelated news... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 07:36 · Score: 2, Funny

>> A short-lived pulse two million times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field was generated.
In unrelated news, government researchers have issued an RFP for 100 new disk drives and data recovery services.
EAT IT, Thomas! by Thud457 · 2012-03-23 07:37 · Score: 5, Funny

There ain't no SI unit named after Edison. beeeotch!

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1. Re:EAT IT, Thomas! by Eponymous+Hero · 2012-03-23 07:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  i propose we use Edisons as units of patents trolled
  
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Re:I thought I felt by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 07:56 · Score: 2, Funny

That wasn't change.
Re:Interplanetary Space? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 08:38 · Score: 5, Funny

+ 5 Informative, -6 for being a snarky asshole.
Re:Interplanetary Space? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 12:16 · Score: 1, Funny

Cut Sheldon some slack, his genius is proportionate to the square of study multiplied by sublimated sexual tension and direct ratio to his Oedepal desires.When you factor in damage from early peers and an apparent lisp you can understand that we keep him in his room.