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6 Comments
supersaiyan93says...I can't say I've ever seen anything quite like that. Very cool.
aidossays...wow. that's really cool. anyone know how it works?
bamdrewsays...yeah, this is really cool. That spiral is an electromagnet being controlled by a device in the base, which is modifying the current going through and the electric field strength created around the spiral. The fluid the spiral is sitting in has very small magnetic particles in a solution, and will flow up and down the spiral and 'reach out' with the magnetic field lines (and create those spikes due to the fluid's desire to glob together). At least, thats the story I'm going with.
Would be intense to see with no gravity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorheological_fluid
aidossays...sounds believable enough to me
gwiz665says...*quality
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by gwiz665.
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