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anemoi2012-03-13 03:37 pm
trustycrowbar) wrote in anemoi2012-03-13 03:37 pm
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They've Actually Done This With Frogs [Video/Action]
[Action]
No, it's about fourty old television cathode-ray tubes stripped, HEAVILY modified, hooked together and set into the ground in a tight grid. Gordon is there at the edge of the glass bubble-grid, somewhat dirt-smudged, sleeves rolled up and coat completely abandoned, talking into a pocket voice recorder with a near-empty bottle of water in the other hand.]
Okaaaaay, first test of hydrophobic electromagnet field... [He tips the bottle over the cathode tubes, and instead of the predictable catastrophic clash of water and electronics, the drops... just sort of hang there in midair. Gordon breaks into a wide grin and turns away with an excited fist-pump before going back to the recording.] Test successful! Magnetic dipole action is causing the water to be completely repelled by the field! My calculations predict that at this power range the field will effectively suspend anything that's more than 60% water by weight! Huh... In fact...
[He looks at the water droplets, the generator tubes, the water bottle in his hand, and then quickly finishes the last swig in the bottle and jumps on top of the tubes... and kind of slides above them, wobbling in midair.] AHAHAH ALL RIGHT! Field can actually suspend a human--whoaOOF! [Can suspend one until they slide off the opposite edge that is.]
[tl;dr there's now a magnetic anti-grav field in the courtyard lawn that'll only work on water and living creatures. Who WOULDN'T want to investigate?]
[Video]
[Gordon is still dirt-stained but back in the apartment, pacing with phone in hand. The magnetofield is clearly visible outside the window whenever he passes it.]
So. Here I thought I remembered everything about my work before, but I gave up a few more anemoi shards to the boys at the lab and suddenly I... I get this huge second wave, sort of. Suddenly BOOM, everything you ever wanted to know about electromagnetism but were afraid to ask, is back. Anyone else have this kind of thing happen to them? Some huge body of knowledge in pieces? I wonder how many more of these I'm going to get...
No, it's about fourty old television cathode-ray tubes stripped, HEAVILY modified, hooked together and set into the ground in a tight grid. Gordon is there at the edge of the glass bubble-grid, somewhat dirt-smudged, sleeves rolled up and coat completely abandoned, talking into a pocket voice recorder with a near-empty bottle of water in the other hand.]
Okaaaaay, first test of hydrophobic electromagnet field... [He tips the bottle over the cathode tubes, and instead of the predictable catastrophic clash of water and electronics, the drops... just sort of hang there in midair. Gordon breaks into a wide grin and turns away with an excited fist-pump before going back to the recording.] Test successful! Magnetic dipole action is causing the water to be completely repelled by the field! My calculations predict that at this power range the field will effectively suspend anything that's more than 60% water by weight! Huh... In fact...
[He looks at the water droplets, the generator tubes, the water bottle in his hand, and then quickly finishes the last swig in the bottle and jumps on top of the tubes... and kind of slides above them, wobbling in midair.] AHAHAH ALL RIGHT! Field can actually suspend a human--whoaOOF! [Can suspend one until they slide off the opposite edge that is.]
[tl;dr there's now a magnetic anti-grav field in the courtyard lawn that'll only work on water and living creatures. Who WOULDN'T want to investigate?]
[Video]
[Gordon is still dirt-stained but back in the apartment, pacing with phone in hand. The magnetofield is clearly visible outside the window whenever he passes it.]
So. Here I thought I remembered everything about my work before, but I gave up a few more anemoi shards to the boys at the lab and suddenly I... I get this huge second wave, sort of. Suddenly BOOM, everything you ever wanted to know about electromagnetism but were afraid to ask, is back. Anyone else have this kind of thing happen to them? Some huge body of knowledge in pieces? I wonder how many more of these I'm going to get...
no subject
And right there, he finds that concern, though perfectly reasonable, is a bit foreign to him.
no subject
He gives the field a look again, and just to prove that losing a health point or two isn't about to intimidate him, he hops and slides back... almost landing on his feet.
"So, that's how it works! No friction, you just slide until you fall off. I'm going to work on that later... hmhm, and I'll think twice about throwing you in to test it again."