Sometimes science is boring. Sometimes science is fun. Usually science is a little bit of both but SOMETIMES science is MAD. That's what we are going to discuss today (strap in!)

OH motherboard you wonderful magnificent info pile you. Thank you in advance for this....

I was just scrolling through motherboard.com and I read this gem:

Researchers at the University of Tokyo were expecting to create a strong magnetic field, but they got a lot more than they were bargaining for.

So.......Naturally What did I do? CLICKED THAT ISH and I dont regret it for one second. Turns out Tokyo scientists decided to go HAM on magnetic fields and completely OBLITERATED their lab in the process. Immediately I say to myself "YESSSSSS" but made sure nobody died so it's all guilt free. Now to be upfront...this Isn't the strongest field ever generated but it is the largest in a controlled environment, which to me, is way more bad ass. What makes it even more punk rock is A. They pushed it further then intended and designed for and 2. They plan to do it again, with all they learned, and do it almost twice as strong (baller) This is a snipet:

"As detailed in a paper recently published in the Review of Scientific Instruments, the researchers produced the magnetic field to test the material properties of a new generator system. They were expecting to reach peak magnetic field intensities of around 700 Teslas, but the machine instead produced a peak of 1,200 Teslas. (For the sake of comparison, a refrigerator magnet has about 0.01 Tesla)"

You know you wanna click more......go on do it.... There's even a video :-)

Now we're at the bread and butter so I'm gonna come out swinging, first off....here's the video:

The actual event is only like 10 seconds long but still, damn. That noise (other than the explosion) that you hear is the sound of an IRON F***ING door being blown off :

To protect themselves from the shockwave, the Japanese researchers built an iron cage for the generator. However they only built it to withstand about 700 Teslas, so the shockwave from the 1,200 Teslas ended up blowing out the door to the enclosure.

YOWZA I say...... frea-king YOWZA

Instead of using TNT to generate their magnetic field, the Japanese researchers dumped a massive amount of energy—3.2 megajoules—into the generator to cause a weak magnetic field produced by a small coil to rapidly compress at a speed of about 20,000 miles per hour. This involves feeding 4 million amps of current through the generator, which is several thousand times more than a lightning bolt. When this coil is compressed as small as it will go, it bounces back. This produces a powerful shockwave that destroyed the coil and much of the generator.

The thing that blows my mind is that they COULD'VE BUT DIDN'T USE TNT. Like yeah, that definitely would've blown off the door. Still thought, gotta give them props for going all out. They stuck to their guns on this one, well magnets. If you'd like to read the article itself via MB's site, here you go -----> CLICK ME

 I seriously wonder what the strongest magnetic field test looks like (FYI it's from Russia so it could be MAD SCIENCE AF) I'm gonna go see if I can find it...

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Darn....nope But here is a couple cool videos to make up for it