World's Strongest Magnet!

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Thanks to the entire NHMFL team - especially Tim, Stephen, Caroline, Kristin, Sam, Lance, and everyone who helped with the demos - for the great visit.
The NHMFL is funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of Florida.

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References:
Liu, Y., Zhu, D. M., Strayer, D. M., & Israelsson, U. E. (2010). Magnetic levitation of large water droplets and mice. Advances in Space Research, 45(1), 208-213.

Simon, M. D., & Geim, A. K. (2000). Diamagnetic levitation: Flying frogs and floating magnets. Journal of applied physics, 87(9), 6200-6204.

Berry, M. V., & Geim, A. K. (1997). Of flying frogs and levitrons. European Journal of Physics, 18(4), 307.

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Written by Derek Muller
Edited and Motion Graphics by Trenton Oliver
Coordinated by Emily Zhang and Derek Muller
Filmed by Derek Muller, Trenton Oliver, Raquel Nuno and Emily Zhang
Additional video/photos supplied by Pond5 & Getty Images
Music from Epidemic Sound
Thumbnail by Ignat Berbeci
Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, and Emily Zhang

[troybrumm]

It was fun having the Veritasium team at the lab! We don't often get a chance to "play" with our instruments and it was great to be able to demonstrate a few principles of magnetism in creative ways.

[BlackFragFilms]

Love how open those guys are to just mess around with equipment worth millions of dollars. This type of stuff inspires young people interested in science.

[bovinejonie]

Of course you need the worlds strongest man to control the worlds strongest magnet. Dude’s jacked 😂

[zephshade]

You can just tell that man either is or would be the best science dad ever. None of these little "experiments" are new concepts for him at all, but he humors and even helps set things up that must seem practically childish to him, just like a dad helping his child with a science fair project.

[Seraph.G]

I love how some labs are like "everything we do is HIGHLY CONTROLLED, you can record but DO NOT do anything weird" and then in this one it's like "yeah let's tape some washers into a NERF football"

[Redmenace]

I know that pro scientists are interested in sharing their knowledge, but letting Veritasium Dude come in and goof around is a very kind and helpful choice. My students really dig this.

[SirDavidAsher]

Imagine being so successful on YouTube that not only does google pay you ad revenue, but the straight up sponsor you. That's badass! Keep it going!

[xplorerF]

Discovering magnetic rocks 3000 years ago must have seriously blown some minds 🤯

[jiyuandong]

Love the magnet guy! He knew literally everything about the questions Derek asked, and you could just tell that man knows sooo much about what he does it's ridiculous. Anyway, great video!!

[bokchoiman]

The fact that they let you do all this is mindblowing

[sammy]

So awesome to see the MagLab get the spotlight it deserves! I had the pleasure of going to FSU and I got to meet so many people who worked there. All incredibly smart and able to convey information to anyone. The annual open house is something of a local holiday.

[Sanity]

I like the magnet guy, he's smart without being cocky. He knows the safety rules and has fun within them.

[KaiBurley]

One of my favorite parts of these videos is seeing who works at these facilities and hearing their excitement about their slice of science

[ares]

That is ridiculously cool. And I love how scientists are basically adults that never lost their childhood curiosity.

[gameskyjumper]

Buy a house. Build a 45T magnet under the kitchen floor.
3 in the morning, woke up because hungry. Turn the magnet on.Heat up food and eat it in a metal plate. Now finally you can eat in peace knowing that if you drop the plate accidentally, there will be no sound to wake your family up.

[clarkboyd]

About 10 years ago I worked at a company that made high speed, fiberoptic magnetic field sensors. Those sensors were taken to this facility in Florida for calibration. Since it was very time consuming to do these calibrations on all new sensor designs, I built a pulsed magnetic system to test the new designs. My system achieved pulses of about 12T in a 2 cubic inch central volume and saved the company a lot of money during R&D. It is great to see this video and it brings back some good memories.

[charizardjmj]

That guy is multi-classing in real life. He's strong, smart and charismatic

[pasta]

You can tell that dude drinks a ton of water with how hulked up he appears. Truth is he's only like that from standing near the magnet

[runli]

Hello from Tallahassee! The Mag Lab also does an amazing job for outreach. Every year they have an open house event that welcomes everyone to learn about their research. Love Mag Lab!

[dkaloger]

Everyone at this lab seems to be having so much fun .Magnets are so cool