Magnetic fields can blow up your lab

Everyone knows about magnetic fields, but very few people know what they really are and what they’re capable of. Charlie brings in a paper from an experiment that broke a magnetic field world record…and blew itself up in the process.

Check out the paper here. Also watch the explosion here and read the Newsweek article here, with modern reports here and here

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