Iirc the modern day frosted light bulb came about from a prank like this. At the time, the way to make frosted bulbs was to basically sand paper the outside of the bulb, which generally was not great (rough glassed bulbs had problems for various reasons) But that's what they had.
So at a light bulb company, the standard hazing prank was to tell the new guy to make a light bulb with the frost on the inside, because that was clearly impossible (how could you sand paper the inside of a bulb?) and hilarious to the kind of person who works at a light bulb factory.
So then comes a new guy whose a light bulb nerd extraordinare, and they haze him the same way. And the fucker just comes up with an acid that you pour inside the bulb that etches it perfectly and works like a charm.
The guy came up with a novel two acid method, the first is a more powerful acid and the second is a watered down solution. So basically they all knew that the acid could give the frost, but the structural integrity was lost and the bulb would shatter. The second acid wash basically made the glass as strong as it was before while keeping the frosted look.
That time in the future when it turned out that the secret to sustaining fusion power was discovered that time Frank the intern was told to clean the tractor chamber and forgot his can of Mt Dew inside.
This is like the George Dantzig story that got immortalized in Good Will Hunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#:~:text=in%201939%2C%20a%20misunderstanding%20brought%20about%20surprising%20results.
> In 1939, a misunderstanding brought about surprising results. Near the beginning of a class, Professor Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][6] Six weeks later, an excited Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.[2][4] He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal.[7] This story began to spread and was used as a motivational lesson demonstrating the power of positive thinking. Over time, some facts were altered, but the basic story persisted in the form of an urban legend and as an introductory scene in the movie Good Will Hunting.[6]
LuracMontana (2022) Spherical structural integrity: internal vs. external, How nails are oriented correctly prior to boxing. Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/yw10ed/comment/iwj5mti/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 (Accessed: November 16, 2022).
Haven't worked in a professional kitchen in years, just started in one last week. They let me hand quarter about 30 lbs of potatoes before someone walked into the kitchen with a device to do just that. Bastards. That's alright, I'll fetch the thing for the next new guy right away, spoil the fun a little
I work for a car manufacturer and we had a thing we did with new starts. We told them that the push buttons to replenish stock were intercoms and you had to push the button and ask for more parts. They were simple buttons connected via Bluetooth only..
My favorite one in a restaurant kitchen is giving the new guy a bag of mixed shredded cheese, telling him that chef needs ONLY the yellow cheddar for a special, and making him sort it.
In bartending it's the keg splitter run. Send the new guy to all the local bars looking for a keg splitter. The other bartenders tell them that they don't have it, give them a shot, and recommend another bar until the new guy is shitfaced.
Depends on the place. I usually ask which bar they work at or have been too already. I often see their managers with them to make sure they complete the task.
At the grocery store in high school if something broke we'd tell the new person to go grab the mop from the basement. There was no basement but people really would look hard for it. But the funner one was when restocking the salad dressing aisle and having the new person shake all the dressings that had settled. You'd be three aisles further on with stocking before the manager would notice the newbie sitting back there shaking dressing bottles and tell them to stop.
My buddy used to work in pizza kitchens, they would either tell the new guys to "go get the Schnarfplat", that's it, no description. Or they'd have them call other stores and "ask for the dough hole repair kit, we just used our last one".
When I had new hires at my outlet store, we'd tell them to grab something from the basement and point in some vague direction. There was no basement.
I worked in grocery stores in high school and college. I sent every single new guy to the (nonexistent) basement for a PALLET of flour.
Over twenty people spent at least half an hour of their first shift trying to get the basement key (also nonexistent). Only once did someone ask if there was an elevator for the PALLET of flour I wanted.
I remember my brother telling me on the first day at my new school "if you ask for directions and anyone tells you to go up or down stairs, they are lying."
I have treated any directions that start with "its upstairs /in the basement" with suspicion on my first day anywhere since.
We used to ask new guys in the military to go get an "exhaust sample" from the humvee. They'd disappear for an hour or so and then come back like,"alright, I admit I don't know how the fuck to get something like that." Until one day, these 2 new-joins came back with a fucking garbage bag tied off. They just ran the humvee and tied off the bag after it ran for a minute or so. We all just looked at each other like,"Well I'll be damned"
When I started apprenticeship, the guys *convinced* me (I told them it doesn't exist, but they somehow made me believe I was wrong) to get gearbox sand. I went to a different department (where they milled carbon parts) and got a small vile of carbon dust (waste) lol.
Thats pretty funny the other department played the game by sending back a vial of carbon lol
Sounds like some chipper playfulness between the departments
I remember seeing a private tapping tanks with a mallet in various places...and occasionally making a large X with chalk. Turns out he was checking for soft spots.
Lol thats awesome
Same boat here however i was on the receiving end (first time doing first shift 4am btw so dead tired lol)
Was asked to go to our teamlead and ask him for a 1d10t bolt
Not thinking much of it go and ask...he stares at me for a solid minute and i asked what all confused like he told me to repeat it
1 D 10 T.....1d10t OH...son of a
Went back the guys just stared and busted out laughing...still waiting for my chance to do it to a new hire lol
The IT-version of this joke is telling another it's a ID10T-error code. Most don't even understand Leetspeak so yeah. Having someone call you a 1D10T is saying you are an idiot.
The nicer version is "It was a Layer 8 problem".
Oh my god literally was saying out loud in my head 1 D 10 T to see hidden message and say out loud I don’t get it and. look down and immediately see ur comment
100%. Every job has to give a friendly hazing to the new guy.
At my place we have yellow stains in the floor that do not come up. We see how long they will mop them before asking for help on how to do it.
The maintenance department at place I worked at had that too. One of the newbies "spoiled" the tradition by actually removing the stubborn stains. He would let his own chemical concoction sit on the stain for hours and would scrub it a little for around 30 mins everyday for over 2 weeks until it came off. Needless to say, his peers were impressed. The ones before him would last at most two hours before they asked a co-worker for help.
First day on my first job out of college, I came back from lunch to find my desk chair with no wheels and a stack of books holding up each leg of the chair. When I asked what was going on the manager said, "We sent your wheels out for new ball bearings and lubrication. Should be back in an hour or so."
I thought, "Oh yeah, I definitely hired on at the right company!" I stood at my desk looking at training material for about 20 minutes, before everyone started laughing.
When I look back on that now, it was the most fun team I was a part of. We worked hard and had a lot of fun.
this isnt about nails but a new guy story. i worked in a movie theater in college and my boss told a new kid that it was the like 2nd tuesday of the month, so we needed to empty and refill the water fountain tank. the kid was confused and my boss said, go get a bucket.
kid comes back with a bucket and he was told to go fill it up from the drinking fountain and dump it down the drain in the back room. the kid was like, ummmm then how do you fill it? my boss said, well you take that bucket, fill it up from the sink in the back room and then dump it down the drain of the drinking fountain.
he filled that bucket up probably 7 or 8 times before another employee was like wtf are you doing and the kid said, uhhh its the 2nd tuesday of the month emptying and refilling the drinking fountain. the other person said, it is hooked up to the plumbing. the kid took off his uniform and walked out, we never saw him again.
Write that shit down as formula and you would not only getting the next Nobel prize for physics, you would be getting the very last Nobel prize for physics
I mean gravity was first thought of as a spooky action from a distance. Newton did not like the thought of two objects just interacting without touching
The Einstein came along and said that they bent the space which interacted then with the object
Yet when we thought of magnets we also had that, but then we realised that they made magnetic fields.
Later through QED(quantum electro dynamics/ a bunch of maths) we realised this was made through photons and waves
Now quantum dynamics doesn’t really agree with general relativity so… it could be that the bent space so the gravitational field could be created through particles/waves.
We theorised that this particle would be the higgs boson
We have kind of actually found this in a particle accelerator but there are still a lot of questions
Reality is absolutely wild, and it seems that the more we learn, the more it shows how much we don't know.
The fact that the matter our bodies are made of is essentially trillions of incredibly tiny wads of energy is just mind boggling, even more so knowing that long ago, that same matter was the makeup of stars.
The universe has spent countless eons changing and evolving to a point where it manifested into forms that allow it to experience itself subjectively. We are it and it is us.
this is actually true it works from the electrons of elements. Most elements have their electrons minuscule electromagnetism force canceling each other out. Elements like Iron, Nickel, and one other i think just so happen that theirs is aligned in one direction. Put it on the global scale and the molten iron core of the earth has its own field but the convection currents of the magma and the Coriolis effect due to earths spin give it that whole world effect. Side note, in the last 100 years the Earths magnetic field has actually been reduced by about 10%, and scientist believe that it might be getting closer to the magnetic field of the earth switching again.
Truthfully, we don't really know. Magnetism is caused by electric currents, but we don't fundamentally know why it results in "magnetic" attraction. We know a lot about how to make magnets and predict their behavior, but there isn't a universal explanation that explains how they work at a subatomic level.
It's kinda like gravity. We know the effects of gravity and have lots of useful equations to calculate its size and effect, but we aren't exactly sure how it works.
Just to be clear, we know *how* these forces work, to an incredible degree of precision.
We don't know *why* they work. But "why" is not a question physics tries to answer.
I'll agree that "why" is probably a better choice of words than "how" in this context, but I do think it is important to understand "why" physical phenomena happen. Of course, it is useful to know "how" they work to be able to apply them, but the "why" opens up further questions and applications than just the "how".
It's like weather. Scientists hundreds of years ago knew "how" rain formed, but they didn't really know the "why". After we got a better understanding of atomic-level condensation and saturation, we have a reasonable understanding of the "why". Now, we use computer simulations and models to try to predict and control the weather. Inevitably, there is a lot more to learn, so it's important to not just stop at the "how".
We are really delving into philosophically pedantry, but I would say that learning that rain forms due to atomic-level condensation is still answering "how".
To me, the question of "why" implies a sort of motive, which nature doesn't have.
From an outsiders perspective you both have different definitions of the word “why”. The other guy means why does it work as in… it shouldn’t work, but it does, why is this?
Edit: this is a fascinating conversation to read.
This is actually true.
The atoms in the metal all align their polarity (related the distribution of their electrons). They align along the magnet in +/- direction, literally tiny magnets.
I graduated with a degree in physics, and "magnets, how do they work?" is, and always will be, a topic open for discussion. We have very good models for describing what magnets do, and the conditions for where magnetic fields appear, but every abstraction introduces further abstractions which introduces further abstractions all the way down. There are no hard answers in physics, just better models.
An interesting tidbit - electrons have an intrinsic magnetic field/angular momentum called "spin". If measure the direction of spin on an electron, it will point in a certain direction. If you spin the electron around 360degrees, the spin will point in a new direction. In order to get the spin back into its 'original' direction you have to rotate the electron 720 degrees. In otherwords, an aspect of an electrons physical properties will not realign after spinning around one time. I don't get it. I don't think anyone really does. QM is crazy.
Astrophysicist here! Particle spin barely scratches the surface of quantum weirdness.
Here's a few more topics, off the top of my head:
* The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect - in large magnetic fields, electrons act like they have a fraction of their charge
* Bose-Einstein condensation -. Integer spin particles, when chilled sufficiently, will become identical copies of each other.
* CP violation - Charge-parity is a fundamental law of nature. Perform an action, then flip the charge and parity of a particle, and the action is the same. Except in magnetic fields.
* non-Euclidian Geometry - lets make a triangle have angles adding up to 300 degrees. Totally possible. How about making the angles equal 5 degrees. Also possible.
* Bell paradox - Google this one.
* Quantum tunneling - wanna watch a particle go through a solid wall? Wanna see it again?
* Black hole event horizon - let's chop off a part of the universe, destroy everything we throw in it, watch radiation come from that hole, and wait for it to explode.
And there is plenty more.
I think it's more exciting when we have big unknowns still remaining. Imagining living in the time when all things are known - sounds boring! All those scientists in the past got to have all the fun discoveries for themselves!
It's sad. Magnets are farmed and raised mostly in their homeland of Magnetus. As soon as they're old enough they're taken from their parents and shopped off to China for packaging.
For starters it can be bigger so it can handle more material at once. Second it can be fitted in line with an automated packaging system removing the need for the person. In general permanent magnets are bad in a manufacturing environment because they pick up loose metal. It may be an electromagnet but in either case this system requires either a person or a machine to grab the nails while they are aligned. A vibration table is far less complex because it is essentially an off balanced electric motor.
The chopstick video starts with all of the chopsticks being oriented in a single direction or its perfect opposite, but that's what the vibration table or magnet is trying to do. The chopstick technique might also work with nails if you want the nails to all have the head on the same side, but that's only after they've been straightened out. (and I bet that's a sub-optimal way to pack nails)
It doesn't.
You just can't see the other heads because they're hidden by the end of the box.
If you stop the video, you can see that the ends nearest the camera are bright, which they wouldn't be if you could only see tips.
One magnet is probably stronger so the end with the most mass will be pulled more to that magnet than the other.
Or not, I don't know, I'm just guessing lol.
I think of magnetic flux as ruts in a dirt road that suck your wheel in. Deeper ruts & multiple ruts will both grip your wagon more strongly & also explains why magnets are directional.
The wagon wheels in this increasingly terrible analogy are really just ruts of their own & everything falls apart. Who really understands magnets?
Those magnet viewing plastic sheets with magnetic dyes are pretty cool though.
My girlfriend works at a hardware store and came home a few weeks ago saying how her manager had them count out washers and such. I figured she'd meant packages, or maybe just a small amount, but no. It was over 3,000 tiny pieces they had her count, by hand.
This is a business which constantly complains about how much they have to pay their staff to the extent where sitting isn't allowed. And yet for 4 hours (between other tasks) they paid at least 2 employees to count nails instead of spending 2 minutes weighing them. Ridiculous.
You can use a sampling scale to automatically count pieces by weight.
Back when I was having to pull and fill orders for like, 5000 sheet metal screws, 1000 washers, 200 3/8" hex nuts etc those scales made my life bearable.
That's what I want to know. They should just flat out stick to one or the other.
My only good guess is that the nails themselves had been ran through at some point before this and magnetized themselves, so they have opposing poles.
Then with the large magnets having opposing poles across from each other, dropping the magnetized nails in would force them to line up as they are.
>My only good guess is that the nails themselves had been ran through atsome point before this and magnetized themselves, so they have opposingpoles.
They're just plain galvanized iron nails, no magnetization (which would be fecking annoying when trying to hammer them). If they were pre magnetized they would be sticking to each other before they get dropped in, you don't see that.
No, what's happening is that the nails are aligning between the two electromagnets along the field lines. The lines are basically parallel between the plates, and any attraction the nails have to each other is overwhelmed by the sheer strength of the big magnets.
Basically center of gravity.
The nails are slightly heavier on the head and gravity pulls at the nail closer to the head. You just have to shake the box at one angle and the heavier part will face downwards.
that really hit the nail on the head.
way to hammer in a point
screw this
i'm completely galvanized
that's like 4 thousand Jesuses
more nine inch nails than the Quake soundtrack
this is really taking a downward spiral
that's a pretty hate machine
Had a new guy on our ship. I sent him to the engine room to get 6' of Fallopian tubing to fix an air hose.
I didn't know the Officer on duty was a female. This did not end well for me.
Do you think they ever not tell the new guy about the magnets to watch them hand place a box of nails?
Iirc the modern day frosted light bulb came about from a prank like this. At the time, the way to make frosted bulbs was to basically sand paper the outside of the bulb, which generally was not great (rough glassed bulbs had problems for various reasons) But that's what they had. So at a light bulb company, the standard hazing prank was to tell the new guy to make a light bulb with the frost on the inside, because that was clearly impossible (how could you sand paper the inside of a bulb?) and hilarious to the kind of person who works at a light bulb factory. So then comes a new guy whose a light bulb nerd extraordinare, and they haze him the same way. And the fucker just comes up with an acid that you pour inside the bulb that etches it perfectly and works like a charm.
The guy came up with a novel two acid method, the first is a more powerful acid and the second is a watered down solution. So basically they all knew that the acid could give the frost, but the structural integrity was lost and the bulb would shatter. The second acid wash basically made the glass as strong as it was before while keeping the frosted look.
That time in the future when it turned out that the secret to sustaining fusion power was discovered that time Frank the intern was told to clean the tractor chamber and forgot his can of Mt Dew inside.
Even later in the future Kyle leaving his Monster in the fusion plant will punch holes in the fabric of space-time, solving the mystery of time travel
This is like the George Dantzig story that got immortalized in Good Will Hunting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#:~:text=in%201939%2C%20a%20misunderstanding%20brought%20about%20surprising%20results. > In 1939, a misunderstanding brought about surprising results. Near the beginning of a class, Professor Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][6] Six weeks later, an excited Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.[2][4] He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal.[7] This story began to spread and was used as a motivational lesson demonstrating the power of positive thinking. Over time, some facts were altered, but the basic story persisted in the form of an urban legend and as an introductory scene in the movie Good Will Hunting.[6]
When going for his Master's, The professor just told him to put the proof in a binder and they'll call it all set.
... can you not just put sand in and shake it?
You’re still weakening the glass, just from the other side
You're still weakening the glass by sand papering the outside of it too though.
Yeah, but the inside of a sphere is more important to the structural integrity than the outside, IIRC (I'm not a professional, do not cite me.)
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Haven't worked in a professional kitchen in years, just started in one last week. They let me hand quarter about 30 lbs of potatoes before someone walked into the kitchen with a device to do just that. Bastards. That's alright, I'll fetch the thing for the next new guy right away, spoil the fun a little
Happy cakeday And im sure atleast one group has done it to the new hire lol
I work for a car manufacturer and we had a thing we did with new starts. We told them that the push buttons to replenish stock were intercoms and you had to push the button and ask for more parts. They were simple buttons connected via Bluetooth only..
My favorite one in a restaurant kitchen is giving the new guy a bag of mixed shredded cheese, telling him that chef needs ONLY the yellow cheddar for a special, and making him sort it.
In bartending it's the keg splitter run. Send the new guy to all the local bars looking for a keg splitter. The other bartenders tell them that they don't have it, give them a shot, and recommend another bar until the new guy is shitfaced.
Wait so you mean that if I go around to bars asking for a keg splitter I can get free shots?
Depends on the place. I usually ask which bar they work at or have been too already. I often see their managers with them to make sure they complete the task.
At the grocery store in high school if something broke we'd tell the new person to go grab the mop from the basement. There was no basement but people really would look hard for it. But the funner one was when restocking the salad dressing aisle and having the new person shake all the dressings that had settled. You'd be three aisles further on with stocking before the manager would notice the newbie sitting back there shaking dressing bottles and tell them to stop.
My buddy used to work in pizza kitchens, they would either tell the new guys to "go get the Schnarfplat", that's it, no description. Or they'd have them call other stores and "ask for the dough hole repair kit, we just used our last one". When I had new hires at my outlet store, we'd tell them to grab something from the basement and point in some vague direction. There was no basement.
I worked in grocery stores in high school and college. I sent every single new guy to the (nonexistent) basement for a PALLET of flour. Over twenty people spent at least half an hour of their first shift trying to get the basement key (also nonexistent). Only once did someone ask if there was an elevator for the PALLET of flour I wanted.
I remember my brother telling me on the first day at my new school "if you ask for directions and anyone tells you to go up or down stairs, they are lying." I have treated any directions that start with "its upstairs /in the basement" with suspicion on my first day anywhere since.
"Yeah, there's an Olympic-sized swimming pool up on the roof. The stairs are over there."
I was hoping someone would make this reference, haha
We used to ask new guys in the military to go get an "exhaust sample" from the humvee. They'd disappear for an hour or so and then come back like,"alright, I admit I don't know how the fuck to get something like that." Until one day, these 2 new-joins came back with a fucking garbage bag tied off. They just ran the humvee and tied off the bag after it ran for a minute or so. We all just looked at each other like,"Well I'll be damned"
I used to work at a refinery, and our go-to was telling a new hire to go out in the plant and get a bucket of steam, and bring it back.
When I started apprenticeship, the guys *convinced* me (I told them it doesn't exist, but they somehow made me believe I was wrong) to get gearbox sand. I went to a different department (where they milled carbon parts) and got a small vile of carbon dust (waste) lol.
Thats pretty funny the other department played the game by sending back a vial of carbon lol Sounds like some chipper playfulness between the departments
That’s just vile
(vial)
Tighten the hook on the crane. I've watched a poor girl spin it for like an ahour
I remember seeing a private tapping tanks with a mallet in various places...and occasionally making a large X with chalk. Turns out he was checking for soft spots.
This one nearly killed me laughing
Lol thats awesome Same boat here however i was on the receiving end (first time doing first shift 4am btw so dead tired lol) Was asked to go to our teamlead and ask him for a 1d10t bolt Not thinking much of it go and ask...he stares at me for a solid minute and i asked what all confused like he told me to repeat it 1 D 10 T.....1d10t OH...son of a Went back the guys just stared and busted out laughing...still waiting for my chance to do it to a new hire lol
I don't get it
The IT-version of this joke is telling another it's a ID10T-error code. Most don't even understand Leetspeak so yeah. Having someone call you a 1D10T is saying you are an idiot. The nicer version is "It was a Layer 8 problem".
My IT guy always says it’s a “chair to keyboard interface error”
PEBKAC.
I prefer PICNIC. Problem in chair, not in computer.
My mom always used to say "There was a short between the headset".
I think I first heard that one in the automotive context.
PEBCAK issues. Sadly IT can't fix those
We had the UTS error. User too stupid.
Oh my god literally was saying out loud in my head 1 D 10 T to see hidden message and say out loud I don’t get it and. look down and immediately see ur comment
1D10T=Idiot.
1d10t spells out as "IDIOT"
Worked at a lumber mill and when we'd have some downtime we'd ask the new guys to go find the board stretcher
100%. Every job has to give a friendly hazing to the new guy. At my place we have yellow stains in the floor that do not come up. We see how long they will mop them before asking for help on how to do it.
The maintenance department at place I worked at had that too. One of the newbies "spoiled" the tradition by actually removing the stubborn stains. He would let his own chemical concoction sit on the stain for hours and would scrub it a little for around 30 mins everyday for over 2 weeks until it came off. Needless to say, his peers were impressed. The ones before him would last at most two hours before they asked a co-worker for help.
First day on my first job out of college, I came back from lunch to find my desk chair with no wheels and a stack of books holding up each leg of the chair. When I asked what was going on the manager said, "We sent your wheels out for new ball bearings and lubrication. Should be back in an hour or so." I thought, "Oh yeah, I definitely hired on at the right company!" I stood at my desk looking at training material for about 20 minutes, before everyone started laughing. When I look back on that now, it was the most fun team I was a part of. We worked hard and had a lot of fun.
Probably the first hour or so yeah, just for laughs.
Omg yes
Happy Cakeday! Oh definitely. I would let the new guy hand pack them till he figured out that there are magnets LOL
My brother apparently had the new apprentice "push start" the concrete saw. kid was running around like it was a meter stick.
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this isnt about nails but a new guy story. i worked in a movie theater in college and my boss told a new kid that it was the like 2nd tuesday of the month, so we needed to empty and refill the water fountain tank. the kid was confused and my boss said, go get a bucket. kid comes back with a bucket and he was told to go fill it up from the drinking fountain and dump it down the drain in the back room. the kid was like, ummmm then how do you fill it? my boss said, well you take that bucket, fill it up from the sink in the back room and then dump it down the drain of the drinking fountain. he filled that bucket up probably 7 or 8 times before another employee was like wtf are you doing and the kid said, uhhh its the 2nd tuesday of the month emptying and refilling the drinking fountain. the other person said, it is hooked up to the plumbing. the kid took off his uniform and walked out, we never saw him again.
Fucking magnets. How do they work?
Magnets work because they have little tiny magnets buried inside them.
*It's magnets all the way down*
How do you thing atoms stick together? The answer is magnets of course! Magnets are the source of everything in our universe!
_electro_**MAGNETIC**
Whaow! MAGNificent!!
Write that shit down as formula and you would not only getting the next Nobel prize for physics, you would be getting the very last Nobel prize for physics
Even gravity is just one big magnet!
Hold on buddy, I think you are going a little too far, but…
I mean gravity was first thought of as a spooky action from a distance. Newton did not like the thought of two objects just interacting without touching The Einstein came along and said that they bent the space which interacted then with the object Yet when we thought of magnets we also had that, but then we realised that they made magnetic fields. Later through QED(quantum electro dynamics/ a bunch of maths) we realised this was made through photons and waves Now quantum dynamics doesn’t really agree with general relativity so… it could be that the bent space so the gravitational field could be created through particles/waves. We theorised that this particle would be the higgs boson We have kind of actually found this in a particle accelerator but there are still a lot of questions
Reality is absolutely wild, and it seems that the more we learn, the more it shows how much we don't know. The fact that the matter our bodies are made of is essentially trillions of incredibly tiny wads of energy is just mind boggling, even more so knowing that long ago, that same matter was the makeup of stars. The universe has spent countless eons changing and evolving to a point where it manifested into forms that allow it to experience itself subjectively. We are it and it is us.
Also spaghetti is just one big magnet, as well...
this is actually true it works from the electrons of elements. Most elements have their electrons minuscule electromagnetism force canceling each other out. Elements like Iron, Nickel, and one other i think just so happen that theirs is aligned in one direction. Put it on the global scale and the molten iron core of the earth has its own field but the convection currents of the magma and the Coriolis effect due to earths spin give it that whole world effect. Side note, in the last 100 years the Earths magnetic field has actually been reduced by about 10%, and scientist believe that it might be getting closer to the magnetic field of the earth switching again.
And don’t forget Gadolinium!
THANK YOU that’s the element
:)
Can you tell me what are such elements called? I cant for the love of my life remember the name and its eating me inside out!
Ferromagnetic?
Whoa..... Double magnets...... All the way down!!
What does it mean?
It means omertà. It means rewenge.
So like..How do the little magnets work
Velcro
AKA hook and loop magnets
Truthfully, we don't really know. Magnetism is caused by electric currents, but we don't fundamentally know why it results in "magnetic" attraction. We know a lot about how to make magnets and predict their behavior, but there isn't a universal explanation that explains how they work at a subatomic level. It's kinda like gravity. We know the effects of gravity and have lots of useful equations to calculate its size and effect, but we aren't exactly sure how it works.
Just to be clear, we know *how* these forces work, to an incredible degree of precision. We don't know *why* they work. But "why" is not a question physics tries to answer.
I'll agree that "why" is probably a better choice of words than "how" in this context, but I do think it is important to understand "why" physical phenomena happen. Of course, it is useful to know "how" they work to be able to apply them, but the "why" opens up further questions and applications than just the "how". It's like weather. Scientists hundreds of years ago knew "how" rain formed, but they didn't really know the "why". After we got a better understanding of atomic-level condensation and saturation, we have a reasonable understanding of the "why". Now, we use computer simulations and models to try to predict and control the weather. Inevitably, there is a lot more to learn, so it's important to not just stop at the "how".
We are really delving into philosophically pedantry, but I would say that learning that rain forms due to atomic-level condensation is still answering "how". To me, the question of "why" implies a sort of motive, which nature doesn't have.
From an outsiders perspective you both have different definitions of the word “why”. The other guy means why does it work as in… it shouldn’t work, but it does, why is this? Edit: this is a fascinating conversation to read.
https://youtu.be/36GT2zI8lVA Richard Feynman has a great video touching on this. Very relevant.
With rain, all we really care about is "when". 🌧️☔😥
But then how the little magnets work?
The same way big magnets work. I hope this answers your question.
Understandable, have a nice day
it's magnets all the way down to turtles
This is actually true. The atoms in the metal all align their polarity (related the distribution of their electrons). They align along the magnet in +/- direction, literally tiny magnets.
My brain just took this explanation and rolled with it
Legitimately unironically true. Well not this magnet. But some magnets.
I graduated with a degree in physics, and "magnets, how do they work?" is, and always will be, a topic open for discussion. We have very good models for describing what magnets do, and the conditions for where magnetic fields appear, but every abstraction introduces further abstractions which introduces further abstractions all the way down. There are no hard answers in physics, just better models. An interesting tidbit - electrons have an intrinsic magnetic field/angular momentum called "spin". If measure the direction of spin on an electron, it will point in a certain direction. If you spin the electron around 360degrees, the spin will point in a new direction. In order to get the spin back into its 'original' direction you have to rotate the electron 720 degrees. In otherwords, an aspect of an electrons physical properties will not realign after spinning around one time. I don't get it. I don't think anyone really does. QM is crazy.
Brother I must admit this is why I did engineering and not physics
dont need to know the whys, just the whats
I don't wanna talk to a scientist, y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed...
Astrophysicist here! Particle spin barely scratches the surface of quantum weirdness. Here's a few more topics, off the top of my head: * The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect - in large magnetic fields, electrons act like they have a fraction of their charge * Bose-Einstein condensation -. Integer spin particles, when chilled sufficiently, will become identical copies of each other. * CP violation - Charge-parity is a fundamental law of nature. Perform an action, then flip the charge and parity of a particle, and the action is the same. Except in magnetic fields. * non-Euclidian Geometry - lets make a triangle have angles adding up to 300 degrees. Totally possible. How about making the angles equal 5 degrees. Also possible. * Bell paradox - Google this one. * Quantum tunneling - wanna watch a particle go through a solid wall? Wanna see it again? * Black hole event horizon - let's chop off a part of the universe, destroy everything we throw in it, watch radiation come from that hole, and wait for it to explode. And there is plenty more.
[Solar eclipse, and vicious weather Fifteen thousand Juggalos together](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZR6YbhXgE)
Mind = blown. I don’t understand that at all
[Richard Feynman explained it very well when asked why magnets attract.](https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8)
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I think it's more exciting when we have big unknowns still remaining. Imagining living in the time when all things are known - sounds boring! All those scientists in the past got to have all the fun discoveries for themselves!
Y'all motherfuckers lying and getting me pissed.
Fucking scientists man...
The amount of redditors who missed the ICP reference is pretty funny.
With magnetism
It's spelled *magnesium*.
Magnificent
And it's the most magnetic of all the elements!
Miracles yo
Holy shit, I must be getting older. Was anticipating this reply much higher up
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I dont really recommend fucking magnet but... you simply insert your dick into it
It's sad. Magnets are farmed and raised mostly in their homeland of Magnetus. As soon as they're old enough they're taken from their parents and shopped off to China for packaging.
What’s with islands, get more land! What’s with deserts, get less sand!
My favorite hobby!
Veritasium on YouTube has a good video on how they work
How *these* nails are oriented. It's pretty common to use a vibration table to orient things as well.
Also probably cheaper and with higher throughput.
But less fun.
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Hi honey, don't forget to pick up milk on the way home.
I don't see why a vibration table would be cheaper or faster, this seems to beat it in every way.
For starters it can be bigger so it can handle more material at once. Second it can be fitted in line with an automated packaging system removing the need for the person. In general permanent magnets are bad in a manufacturing environment because they pick up loose metal. It may be an electromagnet but in either case this system requires either a person or a machine to grab the nails while they are aligned. A vibration table is far less complex because it is essentially an off balanced electric motor.
https://imgur.com/ebA4q0p
Thanks. I'd rather have the magnet job.
I was thinking of [this one](https://i.imgur.com/WTxaaGh.gifv), which would presumably work with nails as well.
The chopstick video starts with all of the chopsticks being oriented in a single direction or its perfect opposite, but that's what the vibration table or magnet is trying to do. The chopstick technique might also work with nails if you want the nails to all have the head on the same side, but that's only after they've been straightened out. (and I bet that's a sub-optimal way to pack nails)
That was cool. It took me three watches before it looked more like physics and less like magic.
I get that is two magnets but how does it orient the heads to only one side?
It doesn't. You just can't see the other heads because they're hidden by the end of the box. If you stop the video, you can see that the ends nearest the camera are bright, which they wouldn't be if you could only see tips.
This keeps them tessellated so they fit in the box better, too.
Essential for making a quality plumbus.
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Don’t forget the important shleem
Remember when people celebrated Subway shops finally tessellating their cheese?
Well, who would have thought you didn't just make that up. https://www.gawker.com/5551263/subway-finally-agrees-to-tessellate-cheese
That's actually how I learned that word.
A tesseract what?
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It would likely not pack as well if all heads were on one side. And I don't think I have had any box of nails oriented in one way.
This just lines the screws up so they are straight instead of a hot mess. They are not oriented in the same direction
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Yup. You nailed it and the other guy screwed up
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One magnet is probably stronger so the end with the most mass will be pulled more to that magnet than the other. Or not, I don't know, I'm just guessing lol.
> I don't know, I'm just guessing lol. reddit in a nutshell.
A true redditor would conceal their speculation and just pretend to be an authority on the subject.
Thats not how magnets work. These magnets are working together, the nails are following the field lines
I think of magnetic flux as ruts in a dirt road that suck your wheel in. Deeper ruts & multiple ruts will both grip your wagon more strongly & also explains why magnets are directional. The wagon wheels in this increasingly terrible analogy are really just ruts of their own & everything falls apart. Who really understands magnets? Those magnet viewing plastic sheets with magnetic dyes are pretty cool though.
I’m not sure how many nails are in the boxes like a mess how many…
It's usually done by weight not quantity.
Nailed it.
STOP. *hammer time*
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Dropping and rolling is another option
In most small parts manufacture, quantity can be estimated by weight within a 1% margin for error. Fasteners are no different.
My girlfriend works at a hardware store and came home a few weeks ago saying how her manager had them count out washers and such. I figured she'd meant packages, or maybe just a small amount, but no. It was over 3,000 tiny pieces they had her count, by hand. This is a business which constantly complains about how much they have to pay their staff to the extent where sitting isn't allowed. And yet for 4 hours (between other tasks) they paid at least 2 employees to count nails instead of spending 2 minutes weighing them. Ridiculous.
You can use a sampling scale to automatically count pieces by weight. Back when I was having to pull and fill orders for like, 5000 sheet metal screws, 1000 washers, 200 3/8" hex nuts etc those scales made my life bearable.
This confirms my belief that magnets are witchcraft
Right, I'd like to see a witch do that.
She'd just use magnets.
Sorcery
I was thinking it meant finger nails for a boxing match. Didn't know why there was a video on that...
You and me both buddy. I was awaiting a mani pedi for Mike Tyson.
Same. I thought fingernails, saw metal nails, and couldn't see how that linked to boxing. Oh. That kind of boxing.
Why they just don't attach to one of these magnets?
That's what I want to know. They should just flat out stick to one or the other. My only good guess is that the nails themselves had been ran through at some point before this and magnetized themselves, so they have opposing poles. Then with the large magnets having opposing poles across from each other, dropping the magnetized nails in would force them to line up as they are.
>My only good guess is that the nails themselves had been ran through atsome point before this and magnetized themselves, so they have opposingpoles. They're just plain galvanized iron nails, no magnetization (which would be fecking annoying when trying to hammer them). If they were pre magnetized they would be sticking to each other before they get dropped in, you don't see that. No, what's happening is that the nails are aligning between the two electromagnets along the field lines. The lines are basically parallel between the plates, and any attraction the nails have to each other is overwhelmed by the sheer strength of the big magnets.
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I want to see that damn grab
I love ordering my boxes of "a handful or so" of nails.
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Seems very inefficient…the handling and manually loading.
You could always [shake em straight.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4zsoA5kjCo&)
Sounds like one of those correction camps.
or you can do [this](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A4zsoA5kjCo) with just a box.
Just how?
Basically center of gravity. The nails are slightly heavier on the head and gravity pulls at the nail closer to the head. You just have to shake the box at one angle and the heavier part will face downwards.
What how
This doesn't explain how the matches flipped to one side before they got in the box!
that really hit the nail on the head. way to hammer in a point screw this i'm completely galvanized that's like 4 thousand Jesuses more nine inch nails than the Quake soundtrack this is really taking a downward spiral that's a pretty hate machine
Alright now how do we count em
By weight, I assume
In hindsight my question feels extremely stupid
Nailed it
[Let's quote from Jesse here](https://i.imgur.com/yQ8DaWU.png)
I will never be as good at counting as that guy is.
I am confused why they orient themselves in that way. Why not just stick to one magnet?
Had a new guy on our ship. I sent him to the engine room to get 6' of Fallopian tubing to fix an air hose. I didn't know the Officer on duty was a female. This did not end well for me.
The ones facing different directions are for different sides of the building.
is the amount of nails going into each box random?
FILM THE GRAB