Hi Steemit Folks!
Today I thought I would share with you ONE of my most memorable physics experiments of all time! This experiment isn’t memorable because it’s of a great scientific value, instead it’s simply an entertaining, funny experiment :)
Some of you may know the physicist “Andre Geim” who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for creating the first 1D graphene structure. Well, before being awarded the Nobel Prize, Sir Andre Geim was awarded the Ig Nobel prize in 2000 for this experiment. The Ig Nobel Prize is an award, awarded every year to celebrate unusual/funny experiments in science.
In 1997 Geim was researching the effects of magnetic fields on water. Since water is mostly diamagnetic, it repels magnetic fields and as such can be used to make very small objects levitate. Geim wanted to know if this method of levitation could be up-scaled to make larger objects float.
So, he made a large magnetic field and placed water inside of it. Following this, he wondered (I have no idea why) if he could place a frog in the water and make it levitate. The frog, upon entering the water started levitating as if it was in space!
You can watch a short clip of the levitating frog below :)
Don't worry! No frogs were harmed during this experiment. The frog was hopping about very happily when taken out of the magnetic field :)
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