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Scientists Have Confirmed the Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism (www.popularmechanics.com)
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[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone in this thread:

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everybody gave them shit for admitting to not know how magnets work (in a song), and yet, 99% of the public don't even know there's three forms.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

I bet you don’t know how to use the three shells

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For anyone interested in what they could be used for, but without time to read the article,

On a nano level, everything we store inside our devices is the result of the coordinated action of electrons. If these materials could be improved, it could mean higher efficiency, more storage within the same size of material, and less loss when data is accessed.

Because

...in [this] paper, scientists show that they can tune these materials very precicely in order to create specific directions of magnetism.

While the traditional ferromagnets we use today are fine in many ways, they aren’t ideal, and can introduce a blurring between separated bits of data known as crosstalk.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nano machines!? I wonder if this will allow smaller than 1nm chip manufacturing.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

THE NANO MACHINES WILL ALLOW MORE MEMES

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

West pole

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a second form of magnetism?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago

apparently it's one of those "technically correct but also obviously nonsense" things: there's no different type of electromagnetism, but specific materials can be magnetic in different ways, dimagnetic/ferromagnetic/paramagnetic, and the stuff the article is about seems to be at least the fourth kind... urgh

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Animal Magnetism

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

He has the kavorka!

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

2025 we’re finding out animal magnetism was real all along, but it requires a certain concentration of microplastics to work

[–] UniversalMonk@mander.xyz -4 points 3 months ago

The best kind!

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Uh, don't we already have three? Dia-, ferro- and paramagnetism?

[–] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

and Antiferro-, Ferrimagnetism.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Magnets are the solution, just you wait

[–] arken@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Mesmer was right all along

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Real question:

This article has been SPAMMED over Lemmy for the past week, what made you post it 8 days after it was made?

That's essentially old news on a platform that moves as fast as this

[–] theorychapter@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 months ago

This is my first time seeing this article and I scroll through all a few times a day

[–] UniversalMonk@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sorry, it was my first time seeing it. And when I posted it to this community, I didn't get an alert that it's already been posted. So I posted.

I sorta go on a science binge every few weeks. So I just read a bunch and post what is interesting. But I don't follow it every day. Hence me replying to you after 18 days. Thanks!