Fun fact, the reason this "isn't found in text books" is that magnetic bearings are one of the key ingredients for uranium enrichment. Bummer, hard to learn about
Cymatic Joule
 @CymaticJoule
Aug 31
ActionLab: A new type of levitation that isn't found in textbooks anywhere because the phenomenon isn't widely known.
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not only is it widely known (first image from an intro textbook) there are whole books about it

Aug 31, 2025 路 6:32 PM UTC

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It won't surprise you that I own this text
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That book is what I received after Amazon botched my order of a thriller book: "Unbearable Attraction". Thanks Bezos. 馃檮
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Aren't magnetic bearings utilizing other forms of magnetic levitation? I.e. electromagnetic suspension (this book's main topic) and electrodynamic suspension? And not the "sub-kind" of spin-stabilized magnetic levitation shown in the video. 馃え (I know, that phenomenon isn't new
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