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Yeah, but you could program it with any number and position of magnetic poles. Imagine a ring of this material as a stator in electric motor, you could reprogram it with 4 or 6 poles on the fly.



liquid programable motors with possible temporal formation capabilities! Sounds one step closer to Skynet's liquid metal terminator :-)

Fascinating!




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