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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm too stupid to understand what that article is talking about. Can someone translate to layman's terms?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I could be wrong but as I understand it. You know magnetism based on positive and negative poles, now they can read and write SPIN, which is another property of electrons (that are in everything, even things nonmagnetic). If it's true, and scales, we could use non-ferrous better materials to achieve what we do currently with ferrous materials.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sooo we can magnetize nonmagnetic materials?

Tractor beam when?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sadly still magnetic force that loses strength exponentially based on distance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

To quote Tim The Toolman Taylor, "Moar Power!"