Meissner effect demonstration - GIF

Meissner effect demonstration via a Mobius strip.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...400#post166138
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...420#post127358
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...670#post136574
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...363#post131240
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...421#post127361

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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.