Buckyballs bouncing on Granite containing metal fragments

Buckyballs (http://www.getbuckyballs.com) act as a good conceptual model for self-assembly of complex proteins and DNA when shown bouncing on a granite substrate that contains small amounts of metal - enough to hold a buckyball in place, but easy enough to overcome with a little external energy.

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Science & Technology

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• Buckyballs
• spherical
• magnets
• conceptual
• model
• bouncing
• protein
• DNA
• fun

[physicsbugga]

errr C60 is a buckyball.........

[wbradleyholtz]

@physicsbugga Not my fault - These magnets are brand-named "Buckyballs"

(They can go together quite nicely to create c60 (and C72) structures.)

[robotandlegolover]

I got 4 sets only, then somehow a neocube set arrived...........should i put them together? if I get 2 thumbs up, I will put them together

[wbradleyholtz]

My Buckyballs are 5.0mm in diameter. Some earlier sets were 4.7mm in diameter and that small difference in size made combining sets a bad idea. I'm pretty sure that the NeoCube is also 5.0mm. If that's the case, then I see no problem in combining them.

[erico1st]

Funny to see how they keep getting a bigger magnetic field as the structures grow ^^

How many buckyballs do you have?

[wbradleyholtz]

5-10 thousand

[vasa800]

its the pringles man missing an eye

[Johanvideo525]

this looks like fun

[watersnake012]

@vasa800 lol it is too

[patjekees]

we got the point in about 20 sec. why make a video for 4 and a half minutes ????

[Gazzadp]

Sorry to say this, but I actually found that interesting for some strange reason!

Thanks for posting. :-)

[Factivel]

Do it again the same way but make a cube or one of those other complex shapes you've got there. I want to know how long that will take.

[erico1st]

Wow, nice dude. I ordered only 216 xD