Originally published August 6 2005
Magnet may provide better curing options
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Florida State University researchers recently unveiled a super-sized magnet that they hope will help cure diseases or improve the nation's power grid.
The new super magnet at The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory weighs more than 15 tons and has a magnetic field 420,000 times that of the Earth's _ strong enough to pull a metal object out of a person's hand and send it flying _ if people were allowed to get close enough.
A superconducting magnet, background, was unveiled at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Thursday, July 28, 2005, in Tallahassee, Fla.
The giant magnet is expected to yield important discoveries in the fields of chemical and biomedical research.
Shown on the computer screen is the brain of a mouse that is being scanned by the magnet.
While the use of magnetic fields may not attract the interest of the average person, the new device is a major breakthrough that's exciting the scientific community and could lead to major advances in medicine, materials research and basic understanding of nature.
"We are extremely excited about the prospects," said Tim Cross, the lab's spectroscopy and imaging program director.
It's not as powerful as another magnet already in operation at the lab, but one thing that has scientists positively charged about the new one is the size of the chamber in which objects are placed to be exposed to the magnetic field.
"This magnet is a world record because it has a very high magnetic field over a very large volume, so we'll be able to study the kinds of materials that can't be studied in any other magnet around the world," said Greg Boebinger, the director of the lab.
The $16 million magnet also is more advanced in the stability of the magnetic field _ a lack of variation that makes for better experiments, Boebinger said.
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