| Spontaneous spinning of a magnet levitating over a superconductor (2003) | |||||||||
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| A permanent magnet levitating over a superconductor is found to spontaneously spin, overcoming resistance to air friction. We explain the physics behind this remarkable effect.. Comment: See http://physics.ucsd.edu/~jorge/spinning.html for movie clips of the effect | |||||||||
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