Magnetic Fields Visualization

This short film, recorded at the Space Sciences Laboratory UC Berkeley, offers a striking visualization of magnetic fields.

Hat tip: cboone

Comments

[Doug]

But, phooey, they seem to have removed it.

[Meg Houston Maker and Steve Maker]

Hmm, thanks Doug. I just wrote to the publishers to inquire about this. Stay tuned.

[Meg Houston Maker]

I just received an update from the good people at Animate Projects Ltd., who publish this site: "The film will be down for a short while, as its popularity has melted our server, but we hope to have it streaming again soon. You can still see extracts on either Semiconductor's website or else there's a MySpace page."

[Doug]

It's back up.

I wonder what the speakers thought of the way their words were used to illustrate what appear to be fantasies. Occasionally the video bore a casual resemblance to the likely magnetic fields around, say, electrical wires, but other times it was poetic at best, inspired apparently by some allusion in the words. The words, however, were describing a highly charged plasma environment, not a glass plate in a glass dome, or a mouse pad.

I'm no physics whiz, so maybe I'm way off. But this doesn't seem like a serious attempt to visualize the actual magnetic fields in a lab space. Kind of hard to see what it was meant to be.