Congratulations, You're Magnetic!

Yes, It's True; You're Magnetic!

Well, not much, but still pretty cool right? The reason why is because water is ever so slightly magnetic. Think of how many things have water! All that is hidden potential. Right now, there's not much we can do with this information other than levitate small magnets with just our fingertips and small objects like frogs and strawberries. Unfortunately, even levitating these objects requires stabilizers and other magnets assisting them. The amount of energy it would take to levitate something bigger like a human would just be too great to be reasonable. For now, the technology is mainly used to study the effects of space on biological organisms without the cost or risk involved of space travel.

The reason why everyone should be excited about the future of this technology is that, someday this could be used to develop hover boards with the assistance of some extra metal like the board itself. It would be a great way to get around. Plus, If you ever decided to go into space this could be used for training for what it would be like to live at various g-forces. The idea of being able to manipulate gravity is an idea that should be something to think about for everyone.


Wanna go check out a video example of this?

Go to this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOt-rYBu0gg

It is a video of an experiment conducted at the High Field Magnet Laboratory.


SOURCES:

University of Nottingham. (2012, January 4). Magnetically levitated flies offer clues to future of life in space. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 12, 2014 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120104133201.htm

High Field Magnet Laboratory. (2007, November 4). Diamagnetic Leviatation [Video
file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOt-rYBu0gg


Magnet levitation at your fingertips. (1999). nature; International weekly
journal of science, 400, 323-324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/22444

Simon, M. (n.d.). Diamagnetic Levitation. Retrieved September 12, 2014, from
UCLA Physics & Astronomy website: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/marty/diamag/