FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research

spence calder writes "FSU's High Magnetic Field Lab, more specifically my Kenpo teacher, just broke 7 world records, and brought the record for a superconducting magnet to 25 Tesla. Check it out at FSView and a more detailed article here. Now if only our football team was that cool." And if you'd like your magnetic toys to shoot metal bits, Jason Rollette points to his railgun project, which looks like good, clean, high-voltage fun.

/. = Server Railgun

[l810c]

Jason's Blog has tons of cool pictures And video. I doubt it holds up.

25 Tesla?

[Read Icculus]

That'll keep those damn Americans off my base.

FP

"...good, clean, high-voltage fun."

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep, Alfred Nobel probably said a similar thing when inventing dynamite.

Football?

[Jonas the Bold]

Now if only our football team was that cool Are you sure you're a geek?

Railgun: Repeatable Access Denial System

[dbIII]

Metalstorm (www.metalstorm.com) is a company possibly within projectile distance of where I live that are working on railguns.

Since they are working on a system called "Repeatable Access Denial System" they just have to be mentioned on slashdot!

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

> The previous records, held by a group of Japanese industrial scientists,
> rated a superconducting magnet at 20 Tesla, which is 400,000 times
> the magnetic field of the earth. The new record is now 25 Tesla,
> which has a generated magnetic field of 500,000 times that of the earth.

I only hope they deactivated the first before turning on the second!

Advanced Technology

[soliaus]

The high tech lab offers researchers specialized equipment that is not available anywhere else in the country
http://www.fsunews.com/vnews/display.v?TARGET=show Image&article_id=3f56a1ad62845&image_num=1 [fsunews.com]

Thats one hell of a soldering iron.

Re:Congratulations

[eyeye]

yes this will also change the fridge magnet industry beyond recognition.

In Other News...

[insane8]

None of my credit cards seem to be working anymore...

FSU Football Team

[Catharz]

Why don't they just spike the football and turn this on at one end of the stadium?

But did they check properly?

[adeyadey]

By holding a piece of paper over it and sprinkling some iron filings?

Re:25 Tesla

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this gonna be on the final?

Tallahassee

[rot26]

Ya gotta love a town where you can buy draft beer by the gallon practically anywhere. BY the way FSU is one of the few universities with a full-time bail bondsman on staff.

Gay Goaters!!

Woah, back off with the big words!

[DirkDaring]

"FSU's High Magnetic Field Lab, more specifically my Kenpo teacher, just broke 7 world records, and brought the record for a superconducting magnet to 25 Tesla. Check it out at FSView and a more detailed article here. Now if only our football team was that cool."

What makes you think people here know something about 'football'?