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Originally Posted by masraum

I just read that earlier. Very cool.
https://www.iflscience.com/physics/watch-scientists-create-strongestever-indoor-magnetic-field-and-blow-up-their-lab-in-the-process/

When I was on campus at the University of Illinois, there was a *rumor* about one of the massive electromagnets that they used in early superconductor research (the superconductor was invented there). They built this monster in the basement of one of the engineering building, piece by piece in situ. When they finally turned it on, the entire building shook, and the electromagnet cracked the floor bolts and shifted several inches over, severing various cooling lines and wires. It ended up being attracted to either the building itself, or the neighboring building, or the Earth's magnetic field. It's supposedly still sitting there, broken, too big to remove from the basement...to this day...ooooohhhhh.....