levitating strawberry

An object does not need to be superconducting to levitate. Normal things, even humans, can do it as well, if placed in a strong magnetic field. Although the majority of ordinary materials, such as wood or plastic, seem to be non-magnetic, they, too, expel a very small portion (0.00001) of an applied magnetic field, i.e. exhibit very weak diamagnetism. The molecular magnetism is very weak (millions times weaker than ferromagnetism) and usually remains unnoticed in everyday life, thereby producing the wrong impression that materials around us are mainly nonmagnetic. But they are all magnetic. It is just that magnetic fields required to levitate all these "nonmagnetic" materials have to be approximately 100 times larger than for the case of, say, superconductors. This experiment was conducted at the Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory.

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[sylversphere]

@1Jedthered In soviet Russia, oceans pull moon!

[1Jedthered]

the moon pulls the ocean with gravity

[swagifiedBiEbEr01]

It is in water because I see on the top left corner it's bubbling and so it might be in boiled water or sumthin

[soulofthelover]

it looks like its in water lmao

[sylversphere]

@ReverseDFatE lol my stupid joke got some thumbs! Well the oceans pull moon with the same force as the moon pulls the ocean so I guess ;) Thanks for the correction. TOP COMMENT OR GTFO!!! lol

[ReverseDFatE]

@sylversphere technically, they pull each other, your joke failed.

[blackout3133]

what if someone's nipple looked like that?

[my8millennium]

What has science done?!

[pielover8888]

@Xxero0 if would be an epic carnival ride! rofl-cakes to you!

[pielover8888]

umm.. cool? i want to levitate like that! and eat a levitating strawberry at the same time!

[kbop451]

FUTURE NEWS>>> in other news people will be eating levitating strawberries