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[–] frostysauce 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's a second form of magnetism?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days 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

[–] arken 2 points 6 days ago

Mesmer was right all along

[–] Mojave -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SmackemWittadic 6 points 6 days ago

THE NANO MACHINES WILL ALLOW MORE MEMES

[–] fargeol 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Kanye West pole?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

He has the kavorka!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

The best kind!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] AllToRuleThemOne 3 points 6 days ago

and Antiferro-, Ferrimagnetism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Magnets are the solution, just you wait