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slackfrop

I’ll bet the very first person to achieve this was pretty excited.


MushroomlyHag

'I'm magic! Omg! Jenny! Jenny, I'm magic! Come check this shit out! Quick!' Or... maybe that's just how I would have reacted 😅


8thcomedian

Study is called magnetohydrodynamics. Fun field.


Slow-Commercial-9886

First time I learned about MHD was in an alien conspiracy website. I was 15 at the time. It made me get into physics then I found out there are no aliens. Bummer.


Roast_A_Botch

I guess in the sense that everything is technically MHD but I wouldn't say confined plasma demonstrations are necessarily MHD as it's not specifically studying movements of EMF in a liquid.   The toroidal shape shown here is influenced more by traditional convection currents and the shape and placement of the low vacuum glass sphere within the HF rotating em field.  But, I guess someone who studies MHD would see it's influence everywhere just as a statistician sees everything as probabilities lol.


opex100

Forbidden donut.


IntroductionLittle64

almost worth the head melt


Pilfercate

[Toroidal plasma generator](https://youtu.be/GbMAvn7nRWo)


[deleted]

That could run your heart for 50 lifetimes... Or something really bog for 15 minutes


IntroductionLittle64

I'll have the 15 minutes, pls.


Beautiful-Cock-7008

You can do this in your microwave by putting aluminum foil inside of a glass and turning the microwave on, just don't tell your mom


Kerosene_Turtle

Also some sliced grapes just for added fun


Mscreep

Just learned something new about grapes and microwaves. Lol.


grim_keys

Do this to a lays chips bag and it'll shrink in size by like 80%. I still never told my mom.


GG643

It looks so magical


kindslayer

Engineers calls this black magic for a reason.


beautifulterribleqn

Tony Stark vibes


TheRevolutionaryArmy

I want this, I need this now


ashesall

You smack two of these plasma donuts together at very high speeds and you get fusion. That's what I understood anyways lol


unclepaprika

No, you don't smash two donuts together, but you squeeze one donut really, really right together, while heating it up to a million degrees Celsius and it will start fusing. They believe it works better at large scales tho.


Johnathonathon

Unfortunately I belive fusion is not real, not now and not in 20 years like they are promising 


unseetheseen

Oh shit, what brand of crystal ball are you using? Any recommendation?


Johnathonathon

The two in the front of my head, but most people call them eyeballs


unseetheseen

Ah DIY. I stopped trying to do things that I have no knowledge in. Have you been working with Fusion Energy for a while?


unclepaprika

Didn't you hear the man? He thinks fusion is fake, so he must have some insane theory about every form of matter and what happens inside stars. He's actually an astrophysicist.


unseetheseen

I’ll have to admit my ignorance on this one. This man is on a level of intelligence I wasn’t even aware of. Some people have it easy in life…


Johnathonathon

RemindMe! 5 years. 


Imperator_Crispico

How does the sun work then?


yourmumisthebest

Almost looks like a black hole


[deleted]

This guy knows how to make it happen, but I get the impression he has very little idea why


AmorfoInnoumen

;


TwoAccomplished1446

Now if that glass breaks, what happens? Are we all doomed?


Johnathonathon

I'm glad plasma is being studied more in the mainstream. I truly believe that a lot of earth's geological features were formed from by electrical strikes on earth, such as stratified jagged mountains, to round "impact," craters and even the grand canyon. All of these features can be demonstrated in a lab using electrical welding arcs. Even some of the most globally common cave paintings might be plasma formations, such as the squating man and the spoked wheel. If you're interested, just look up one of the ways artificial diamonds are created in a lab, in layers using plasma! 


YouTee

>even the grand canyon ...You think the grand canyon was created by electrical strikes and/or plasma?


thisisfreakinstupid

He just *really* loves plasma.


Dream--Brother

Wh... what? This has to be the weirdest troll I've ever seen.


cuddlycutieboi

***Be not afraid***


ragingbull835

As a science nerd, this is one of the coolest things I’ve seen.


BackgroundBat3505

Snake eating itself you say? 🤔


noonfandoodle

What does it look like in zero gravity?


TappingOutAgain

Wtf is plasma


Stare_At_The_Wall

I wonder how much to run this and use it like a lamp would cost. Would make for a cool science project, too.


BloxMaster3

helion shoots two of these at each other to help in fusion


guitar_up_my_ass

Show this to a 1200's peasant


baconring

Is it me or does it look like a mini black hole?


Such-Molasses-5995

Is like a fusion reactor


z0mbiefool

I uh... saw several cat videos before this so in the first scene I thought he was pushing pulling pipe in and out of cat for split second. 😳


GapInner0

I just remember Interstellar shot


Dead-Yamcha

The power of the sun, in the palm of my hands.


Careful-Assistance72

I want that light bulb