shemp
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Is that the building with millions of refrigerator magnets sticking to it?
rwald
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Well, there's a "training" nuclear reactor at UF in Gainesville, and I had no problems when I was there over the summer...not the same science or school, but tangentially related...
Kitty- is this another of your wandering brood off on a summer jaunt? Don't know anything about the place , but as far as high magnetic fields are concerned The Crotchety Englishman seems to be resident expert. You might PM him.
Cheers.
Cheers.
neutrino_cannon
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Unrelated, but I heard/read one time about a refridgeration system that used magetic fields and gandolinium, or is gandolinium ferromagnetic?
a_unique_person
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shemp said:
Did you know that fridge magnets make food more carcinogenic.
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Try cooking them separately.
Re: I don't know!!!!
Things to consider:
1) You live in a magetic field every day of your life.
2) Magnetic fields have not been shown to effect biological systems at all.
3) If this facility does not cause every compass in the area to work incorrectly, it isn't altering the magnetic field that you would be living in anyway.
kittynh said:
Things to consider:
1) You live in a magetic field every day of your life.
2) Magnetic fields have not been shown to effect biological systems at all.
3) If this facility does not cause every compass in the area to work incorrectly, it isn't altering the magnetic field that you would be living in anyway.
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Basically they do research and development involving... wait for it ... Yes - high magnetic fields!!! 
There are many many things this encompasses - mostly material science application like growing very pure but large crystals, some odd metal types etc. Also magnetic power research (yes i think this is where the magnetic fridge-cooling technology came from). They have a huge website if you really want to know all about it. Try starting here:
http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/about/:
As to your daughter going on trips to neat places to give talks. Yes, that is one of the perks to being a scientist, gotta get something for 10 years of university study (it ain't for the money, unfortunately
). For example I'm off the 1st week of April for a week at Puerto Vallarta to talk about my research (really, and it doen't involve researching Tequila quality differences - although I hope to explore that too
).
edited to get my rolleyes to do so
There are many many things this encompasses - mostly material science application like growing very pure but large crystals, some odd metal types etc. Also magnetic power research (yes i think this is where the magnetic fridge-cooling technology came from). They have a huge website if you really want to know all about it. Try starting here:
http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/about/:
As to your daughter going on trips to neat places to give talks. Yes, that is one of the perks to being a scientist, gotta get something for 10 years of university study (it ain't for the money, unfortunately
). For example I'm off the 1st week of April for a week at Puerto Vallarta to talk about my research (really, and it doen't involve researching Tequila quality differences - although I hope to explore that too ).edited to get my rolleyes to do so
You want to see some of the effects of intense magnetic fields, the look at some of the pictures taken of and near tokomak reactors when they are on. The fields are intense enough to cause distortion of the images, but the people don't notice it.
Lest that cause undo concern, intense mag fields are really not that dangerous unless you move through them very, very fast.
And Navy people have been working in higher intensity magnetic fields as a matter of course for several decades (since we have been using magnetic degaussing to reduce our signatures vis a vis mines). These fields are strong enough to disrupt the electron beams in tv's and monitors.
Lest that cause undo concern, intense mag fields are really not that dangerous unless you move through them very, very fast.
And Navy people have been working in higher intensity magnetic fields as a matter of course for several decades (since we have been using magnetic degaussing to reduce our signatures vis a vis mines). These fields are strong enough to disrupt the electron beams in tv's and monitors.
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NHMFL
Just saw the message about the National High Magnetic Field Lab in Tallahassee.
I worked there for nearly 5 years from the time that it was built, building and running a lab which is still there today. I still have a lot of friends there.
What would you like to know?
crotchety englishman
Just saw the message about the National High Magnetic Field Lab in Tallahassee.
I worked there for nearly 5 years from the time that it was built, building and running a lab which is still there today. I still have a lot of friends there.
What would you like to know?
crotchety englishman
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kittynh
be happy to provide any help to you or your daughter.
The lab is an interesting place, I used to take on interns during the summer and they seemed to have a good time. Let me know who she is working with. I headed up the Pulse Magnet Program in the Magnet Science and Technology Group that is now led by Steve van Sciver.
Tallahassee is an aquired taste. During the summer it is hot and sticky and very unpleasant. People are very friendly however and there are some very nice beaches an hour or so away if you like that sort of thing. It is very much a student town. If you are not a football fan it is often best not to say so.
One thing that did contribute to me leaving however was the very subtle (and sometimes not so) racism. My wife is not white. We got some very nasty looks in the mall, were ignored in stores and shoved at the flea market etc. by both white and black folks. Racism was generally not overt (in fact people often went out of their way to be "civilised") unless you stepped across a line, then it became very overt.
crotchety englishman
be happy to provide any help to you or your daughter.
The lab is an interesting place, I used to take on interns during the summer and they seemed to have a good time. Let me know who she is working with. I headed up the Pulse Magnet Program in the Magnet Science and Technology Group that is now led by Steve van Sciver.
Tallahassee is an aquired taste. During the summer it is hot and sticky and very unpleasant. People are very friendly however and there are some very nice beaches an hour or so away if you like that sort of thing. It is very much a student town. If you are not a football fan it is often best not to say so.
One thing that did contribute to me leaving however was the very subtle (and sometimes not so) racism. My wife is not white. We got some very nasty looks in the mall, were ignored in stores and shoved at the flea market etc. by both white and black folks. Racism was generally not overt (in fact people often went out of their way to be "civilised") unless you stepped across a line, then it became very overt.
crotchety englishman
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Being White or Black....
In the context of my experiences in Tallahasee -
My wife ran school programs for "at risk" kids and hired people to work in them. She had a vietnamese worker and at temperature reading one day, the kids (both white, black and a few mixed) asked her whether she was white or black. When she said neither, there was total disbelief. That wasn't an option that existed for them.
Tallahassee is often called "Florida with a Southern flavor".
Less than a mile outside the state capitol building are areas of abject poverty, shacks beside the railroad with no running water, no electricity and folks who sit on the porch with shotguns on their laps.
This contrasts with the question when I first arrived "Would my wife be joining the faculty wives embroidery circle?"
In the context of my experiences in Tallahasee -
My wife ran school programs for "at risk" kids and hired people to work in them. She had a vietnamese worker and at temperature reading one day, the kids (both white, black and a few mixed) asked her whether she was white or black. When she said neither, there was total disbelief. That wasn't an option that existed for them.
Tallahassee is often called "Florida with a Southern flavor".
Less than a mile outside the state capitol building are areas of abject poverty, shacks beside the railroad with no running water, no electricity and folks who sit on the porch with shotguns on their laps.
This contrasts with the question when I first arrived "Would my wife be joining the faculty wives embroidery circle?"
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Re: I don't know!!!!
Of course it's not safe. You're sending your daughter to a place where there are boys who will only be interested in her for one thing!
Off to the convent with her!
kittynh said:
Of course it's not safe. You're sending your daughter to a place where there are boys who will only be interested in her for one thing!
Off to the convent with her!
See? I knew he would know.
Love the pic. I wonder if you could put enough spin on a bowling ball to knock 'em all over in one go?
ps. If you have not already seen the pic Beleth posted in the Commentary , have a look. Compare Iceland and NW Scotland. It gives you a good idea how empty both are. The bright patch in SW Iceland is Reykjavik and the surrounds.
I'll copy the link here. Here
Love the pic. I wonder if you could put enough spin on a bowling ball to knock 'em all over in one go?
ps. If you have not already seen the pic Beleth posted in the Commentary , have a look. Compare Iceland and NW Scotland. It gives you a good idea how empty both are. The bright patch in SW Iceland is Reykjavik and the surrounds.
I'll copy the link here. Here