• Micromot@piefed.social
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    11 days ago

    They are from a YouTube video by styropyro where he uses a lot of car batteries on copper tubes and uses compasses to.show the magnetic field, some of them showed the opposite of what they should’ve

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 days ago

      Explanation for those who don’t want to watch the video:

      Spoiler for those that still plan to

      The magnetic field generated by the batteries was so insanely strong, many non-aligned compass needles were, instead of being turned around, permanently re-polarized to conform to the now present magnetic field.

      tl;dr: Exposing compasses to fusion reactor level strong magnetic fields will break (some of) them.