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Floating globes use magnetism to keep them afloat. For some globes, there’s a C-shaped apparatus that holds two different magnets — one above or below the globe and one inside the globe. The magnet ...
Researchers repurposed an experiment originally intended to detect gravity, which involved a floating magnet in a superconductive trap, predicting that gravity exerted by dark matter would interact ...
January 24, 2008 We’ve written before about the EUR 1,200,000 (US$1,750,000) floating bed which uses permanent opposing industrial-strength magnets to enable it to float, so this exquisite floating ...
I HAVE no intention of discussing the beautiful experiments of Prof. A. M. Meyer on floating magnets; but as a privately expressed opinion of mine has appeared in NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 260, I feel ...
Sign me up for one of these floating beds! Be mindful that if the price of 1.2M euros alone doesn't kill you, the electrical bills will. I'm no expert in this area, but I'd speculate that it would ...