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Nov 2, 2010

The World's Largest Magnet is Being Built in India

If your microwave suddenly whizzes out your house and down the road, you'll know India's successfully built the world's largest magnet. The 50,000 tons of magnetised iron will be housed underground, making CERN's 37,500-ton magnet shrink in shame.

Why does India need such a large magnet? It's for their neutrino observatory, which must be built underground so cosmic rays and other radiation don't interfere with the 30,000 detectors located there.

This particular observatory, dubbed INO (Indian Neutrino Observatory) will see neutrinos interacting with the iron to eject charged particles, that will be recorded by the various detectors and provide insight into the astronomy world. Only two sources have been located so far by other observatories (the sun and supernova SN1987A) but the INO is hopeful it will find others—otherwise they wouldn't have coughed up a budget of $250 million for the project.

38 comments:

roxxor said...

They should build another big magnet and make a giant subwoofer... lol

Lepoidim said...

Nice, would like to see what it's capable of when it's finished!

Stav88os said...

Cool Story Bro!;)

textileengineer said...

hmm, smells like autobots.

textileengineer said...

hmm, smells like autobots.

MattNagi said...

Woah, this is frikken interesting! I love science and big things!

icequeen100 said...

lol, I hope India knows how to use magnets.

Beatrice said...

I can't even understand what kind of power a magnet of that size has.

Jem Star said...

Wow that's quite impressive!!

KRUNOSLAV DUNDOVIC said...

i didn't know this
thanks

Anonymous said...

That would erase a LOT of VHS tapes!

Richard said...

i bet that thing is the reason for 2012 catastrophies

Telia Tuli said...

How exactly do these things work anyway?

i_love_weed said...

im gonna rub all your nails and screws against it so they stick to your tools!!!

*evil laugh*
*muhahahahahah*

Ben Dover said...

Damn, I wonder how many workers will get their metal things stuck to the magnet :D

Copyboy said...

Dang those cosmic rays. I say they say to hell with the magnet and breed a bunch of mutant X-men of india.

Anonymous said...

That thing will probably cause cancer in some lol

Gurney said...

That is def a MASSIVE magnet

LoneIslander said...

I hope nothing goes wrong with it.

Big L said...

yes but how does it worK?

Tanvir Shagar said...

i've heard about these!!

Czikita said...

hove this will revil how they works

Facilitator said...

How do they work?

Unknown said...

I wonder how can they keep the underground computers protected...

Naj said...

i'm not surprise here. india has an awesome physics program and they have great research facilities.

Binary Soul said...

interesting

roger said...

Haha at roxxor, a giant subwoofer would be cool.
imagine the power.
but then you'd need a huge amp to go along with it.

How far will this magnet's field be?

Jimmy Volmer said...

I noticed your new blog layout... really cool

Nerd Life said...

very nice!

Anonymous said...

physics = win. but i am afraid of the magnet =(

RoodNverse said...

fuking miracles , and btw wtf does india care about the universe >.>? wtf, anyways they got a bunch of money so w/e >.>

! WALLPAPERS BY ERDNUSS2 ! said...

lol, funny!

Voacaroo said...

Magnets are awesome!

SiriusUnrelated said...

Oh man, this is awesome. I can't wait to see where this leads. I keep thinking of the picture "Magnets, how do they work?" Still awesome though.

JRam said...

Is anyone else having problem trying to comment on this blog? I have to open comments in a new tab to reply since simply clicking comment only brings up some sound ad or w/e.

Discerning Gentleman said...

I wonder what the power will be

Light Weight Baby! said...

bring your hard drives with the bad stuff on them to get erased!

4-Eva! said...

wow, awesome