Beer Levitation - Sixty Symbols

A bit of fun as we look at the serious science of magnetic susceptibility. More science symbols explained at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• beer
• magnetism
• levitation

[Tossphate]

This guy in our lab had seriously bad taste in music, but he kept playing his tapes despite our protests. This was the days of casette tapes mind, which obviously are magnetic. After one particularly gruelling morning one of the girls grabbed his tapes and ran down to the NMR room and rubbed them against the 400MHz magnet with a huge cheesy grin. Problem solved :D

[tekproxy]

If you wish

to drink some beer

You must first

Create a giant electromagnet

[themeherchaitanya]

what happens to fire in that condotion?

[CandelaCenter]

@madjimms

Liquid O2 is Paramagnetic. The poles line up and become magnetic,,

[madjimms]

@CandelaCenter Hmm, so liquid oxygen would be fairly reactive (magnetically)?

[CandelaCenter]

@madjimms

Air is made of many elements and particles. Each has their own properties. Moisture (H^2o) in the air is dia-magnetic .

[commetsmasher]

@CertifiedBad4ss lol, yeah, i'm sure he does that on a regular basis. He probably just drinks floating beer all day. Science? pfftt fuck that, this guy will be too busy with levitating beverages to concern himself with useless things like actually working.

[madjimms]

So is air di-magnetic?

[cxzdsaewqasdzxc]

So, would this be a functional although inconvenient way of preventing your opened fizzy drink going flat?

[CertifiedBad4ss]

1. Why not just smack one of those over clocked magnets in the bottom of our cars and get those flying cars we are all dreaming about.

2. I want that guys job, drinking weightless beer on the job.

[GamerAzoonux]

At 1:40 ish you say that you can't feel the force generated by diamagnetism. This is not what most people experience. Touch, is in fact electromagnetic repellant forces, such as you explain, we just don't see it being repelled by an "invisible field".