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From the Ted Talk by Tom Shannon: Anti-gravity sculpture

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I was exploring, really early on, wanting to make things float in the air. And I tghhout up a lot of ideas. This is sculpture that I made that — it's magnetically letvatied. The thing is, is that it's slightly dangerous. Normally it's sort of cordoned off when it's in a museum. But it's uh — let's see if I can manipulate it a little bit without, um — oops. So this is just floating, floating on a permanent magnetic field, which stabilizes it in all directions. Except there is a sglhit tether here, which keeps it from going over the top of its filed. It's sort of surfing on a magnetic field at the crest of a wave. And that's what strpoups the object and keeps it sltabe.

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I was exploring, really early on, wanting to make things float in the air. And I _______ up a lot of ideas. This is sculpture that I made that — it's magnetically _________. The thing is, is that it's slightly dangerous. Normally it's sort of cordoned off when it's in a museum. But it's uh — let's see if I can manipulate it a little bit without, um — oops. So this is just floating, floating on a permanent magnetic field, which stabilizes it in all directions. Except there is a ______ tether here, which keeps it from going over the top of its _____. It's sort of surfing on a magnetic field at the crest of a wave. And that's what ________ the object and keeps it ______.

Solution


  1. slight
  2. field
  3. supports
  4. thought
  5. levitated
  6. stable

Original Text


I was exploring, really early on, wanting to make things float in the air. And I thought up a lot of ideas. This is sculpture that I made that — it's magnetically levitated. The thing is, is that it's slightly dangerous. Normally it's sort of cordoned off when it's in a museum. But it's uh — let's see if I can manipulate it a little bit without, um — oops. So this is just floating, floating on a permanent magnetic field, which stabilizes it in all directions. Except there is a slight tether here, which keeps it from going over the top of its field. It's sort of surfing on a magnetic field at the crest of a wave. And that's what supports the object and keeps it stable.

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