The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World - and Could Destroy It

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Cover ......Page 1 Title ......Page 4 Copyright ......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 PREFACE: Playing with the Universe......Page 14 PART I: magnet......Page 22 CHAPTER 1 The Beginnings of Things......Page 24 CHAPTER 2 The Unpaired Spinning Electron......Page 30 CHAPTER 3 Parking in the Shadow of Magnetism's Forgotten Man......Page 40 CHAPTER 4 Into Whose Embrace Iron Leaps......Page 48 CHAPTER 5 Revolutions on Paper......Page 60 CHAPTER 6 The Earth's Magnetic Soul......Page 66 CHAPTER 7 Voyage into the Underworld......Page 76 CHAPTER 8 The Greatest Scientific Undertaking the World Had Ever Seen......Page 84 CHAPTER 9 The Rock That Turned the World Upside Down......Page 98 PART II: current......Page 106 CHAPTER 10 Experiment in Copenhagen......Page 108 CHAPTER 11 A Very Intimate Relationship......Page 114 CHAPTER 12 Jars Full of Lightning......Page 120 CHAPTER 13 The Apothecary's Son......Page 130 CHAPTER 14 The Bookbinder's Apprentice......Page 146 CHAPTER 15 Magnets Making Currents......Page 152 CHAPTER 16 The Lines That Fill the Air......Page 160 PART III: core......Page 166 CHAPTER 17 The Contorting Gyre......Page 168 CHAPTER 18 Shocks Inside the Earth......Page 178 CHAPTER 19 Pharaohs, Fairies, and a Tar-Paper Shack......Page 188 CHAPTER 20 Zebra Skins Under the Sea......Page 198 CHAPTER 21 At the Outer Edge of the Dynamo......Page 208 CHAPTER 22 Anomaly to the South......Page 216 CHAPTER 23 The Worst Physics Movie Ever......Page 226 CHAPTER 24 The Great Hazardous Spinning Sphere of Sodium......Page 234 PART IV: switch......Page 242 CHAPTER 25 Looking Up......Page 244 CHAPTER 26 Horrors the Lights Foretold......Page 252 CHAPTER 27 Lethal Patches......Page 262 CHAPTER 28 The Cost of Catastrophe......Page 270 CHAPTER 29 Trout Noses and Pigeon Beaks......Page 276 CHAPTER 30 A Suit of Stiff Black Crayon......Page 282 Notes......Page 292 Selected Bibliography......Page 314 Acknowledgments......Page 320 B......Page 324 C......Page 325 D......Page 326 F......Page 327 G......Page 328 K......Page 329 M......Page 330 N......Page 331 P......Page 332 S......Page 333 T......Page 334 Z......Page 335