[TheForge] Hobo Nickels

Andrew Vida osan at netlabs.net
Fri Jun 20 07:30:04 EDT 2008



Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu wrote:
> What is done is high Voltage capacitors of high quality are charged up.
> Large capacitors.  Then they are discharged quickly into a turn of wire
> that usually disintegrates due to the power induced.  But before it
> disintegrates it generates a large magnetic field that causes the coin
> to shrink in diameter.

	How much does it shrink?  I take it that it expands in another 
direction, right?


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