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Idea: Visualizing magnetic fields

You know what they haven’t created yet? A way to digitally visualize the variations and intensity of a magnetic force or field.

Like, for instance, how to visualize whatever force that is holding up this frog:

Or this strawberry:

Or this water droplet:

Of course, those are simply amplified examples of diamagnetism, which is a non-superconducting magnetic state which is, actually, a ubiquitous form of magnetism that is exhibited in extremely weak forms in most “non-magnetic” substances, even plastic and gold. Diamagnetism, if exhibited in a particularly strong form, can levitate such objects, even as large as living beings like frogs.

So my question is: what if we were able to *view* the diamagnetic force that is levitating these objects? Is it possible to detect the frequency and strength of the force in a manner that could be rendered dynamically in a digitally graphic form?

I’m certain that I saw an instrument that can detect a magnetic field’s strength in gausses last night, so I guess we simply need to stick a number of these around a diamagnetic field in action; then the detectors can be connected to a device (which is far away from the diamagnetic field) that translates the measurements of the detectors into computer-interpretable form, which then results in a dynamic graphic representation of the field.

I’m certain that once we can get such a combo working, then we will be on our way to other useful developments, such as spontaneous/dynamically-created mass, which would be useful for network-generated augmented reality object data.