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The video stopped very shortly into it for me and prompted some chinese message on the screen, just before he inserted the magnet. Has anyone got a rehosted link to the video that is less likely to get me on some kind of list?

It would be fascinating if this was legitimate.

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It's a login prompt and you can close it to keep watching. But as linked in another comment, this link may be easier for non-Chinese viewers: https://targum.video/v/2023/8/1/e2ad3b8e86961ccfdcf411d2d4d1...

Thanks for that. I feel this video isn't particularly good after watching it. Surely that could be any ferrous material thats interacting with the field/inductive eddies there.

It isn't physically possible for a ferrous material to levitate above a magnet like that, when the magnetic poles are reversed. Basically you could structure it in such a way to generate a ferrous material levitating above a magnetic north pole, but flip the magnet around and you won't see the levitation. They flip the magnet around in this video.

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