Meissner effect demonstration - GIF

[Altair]

Meissner effect demonstration via a Mobius strip.




Previously:

Sakai paperclip top - GIF
Magnus effect - GIF
Lenz's law demonstrations - GIFs
Physics of baseball/bat collision - GIF
Intermediate axis theorem - GIF and video

[marksbug]

weeeeeeeeee

[mwmkravchenko]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect

https://www.britannica.com/science/Meissner-effect

So I didn't know what this was, had a suspicion, but I had to look it up. The second reference gives a huge clue as to what is going on in this video.
I do a lot of work with Neodymium magnets. If you look carefully at the Mobius strip you will see that it is covered in Nickel plated tiles sandwiched to a steel core. Neodymium magnets! The little whizzing snowball is a piece of some kind of superconducting solid material. The magnetic field from the magnets is part of the reason why it is propelling the superconductor around the strip.

[brettmaverick]

I understand the principles behind that. I think it is 2 videos edited together.It doesn't show how it flips sides.

[mklotz]

I understand the principles behind that. I think it is 2 videos edited together.It doesn't show how it flips sides.

It's a Möbius strip, topologically, it only has one side (and only one edge).