A spinning Levitron Cherrywood top, thanks to repelling magnetic force in the base and the top’s gyroscopic stability, hovers over a soap bubble full of glycerin fog, all within a larger bubble that is also filled with fog. It was created by bubble enthusiast Dustin Skye, who also filmed it from a second angle:
…and played with some other bubble tests before adding fog:
Next: More bubbles, more magnetic fields, more levitation and more toys, including Tops (1969) by Charles and Ray Eames, Levitating Superconductor on a Möbius strip, and Materials science with EUPHRATES.
via La Boite Verte.
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