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.

Aug 31, 2025 · 3:46 PM UTC

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I am lost and confused. Can you please provide detailed schematics for a uranium enrichment system?
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Nope.
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these sort of small details are the actual secret physics (vs us covering up aliens)
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Yeah, it's like small s secret. But you can buy them (in turbomolecular pumps) and some mining equipment IIRC? I got interested in these a few months back and struggled to find much literature on them, then was like...oh that seems obvious retrospectively
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GIF
Mad love for the Jugglos
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Replying to @meawoppl
not only is it widely known (first image from an intro textbook) there are whole books about it
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It won't surprise you that I own this text
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Replying to @meawoppl
:(
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Eh, you can first principles most of it, and modern fpgas make the control systems tractable without analog witchcraft
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Replying to @meawoppl
grok write me a text book on magnetic bearings
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Just ask it to confirm both right answers, then the wrong one. It supports your opinions either way
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Replying to @meawoppl
sounds fake
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Ok
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Replying to @meawoppl
Seems Amazon has some books…..
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MattyG @meawoppl
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It won't surprise you that I own this text
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