{"id":257497,"date":"2024-10-18T00:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T04:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=257497"},"modified":"2024-10-18T00:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T04:03:30","slug":"did-tallahassees-national-high-magnetic-field-laboratory-push-cat-4-hurricane-helene-away-from-floridas-capital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=257497","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b><i>Did Tallahassee&#8217;s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory push Cat 4 Hurricane Helene away from Florida&#8217;s capital city?<\/i><\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Theory Suggesting World\u2019s Largest Magnet Pushed Hurricane Helene Away From Florida State Gains Traction<!--more--><\/h1>\n<div id=\"&quot;attachment_23558737&quot;\" class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23558737\" src=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) calc(100vw - 20px), (max-width: 960px) calc(100vw - 40px), (max-width: 1083px) calc(100vw - 360px), (min-width: 1084px) 728px, 728px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=650,366 650w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=1083,609 1083w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=354,199 354w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=800,450 800w, https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fsu-mag-lab-vs-hurricane.jpg?resize=256,144 256w\" alt=\"image of FSU Mag Lab repelling a hurricane\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Getty Images\/iStock Composite \/ Chris Leduc \/ MikeMareen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>by Cass Anderson<br \/>\nBrobible<\/p>\n<p>Florida State University and the city of Tallahassee dodged a bullet on Thursday night when\u00a0<strong>Hurricane Helene<\/strong>\u00a0shifted at the last minute and spared the state capital of Florida from a direct hit.<\/p>\n<p>Things appeared to be very bad for FSU when The Weather Channel\u2019s Jim Cantore was given Tallahassee as his location assignment for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/hurricane-helene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Helene<\/a>\u00a0but with the last minute shift a theory has (once again) taken off that\u00a0<strong>FSU\u2019s Mag Lab<\/strong>, home to the world\u2019s largest magnet, spared the city of Tally from a direct hit.<\/p>\n<p>FSU\u2019s Mag Lab in Tallahassee is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalmaglab.org\/about-the-maglab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1-of-1 facility<\/a>. It is both the largest and highest-powered magnetic laboratory on planet earth. FSU\u2019s Mag Lab has a 32-tesla all-superconducting magnet which is the most powerful all-superconducting magnet in the world. It is also home to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalmaglab.org\/about-the-maglab\/around-the-lab\/meet-the-magnets\/meet-the-45-tesla-hybrid-magnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">45 tesla magnet<\/a>\u00a0which \u201ccombines a superconducting magnet of 11.5 tesla with a resistive magnet of 33.5 tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>But is FSU\u2019s Mag Lab enough to control the weather?!?!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every time there is a hurricane approaching the city of Tallahassee and misses people talk about how the Mag Lab did it. Jokes took off on X, formerly known as Twitter, due to a last-second track shift from Hurricane Helene. Check ou the shift here just prior to landfall:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-257502\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GYdC7wiakAAMju2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GYdC7wiakAAMju2.jpg 496w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GYdC7wiakAAMju2-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/fsu-mag-lab-conspiracy-theory-pushed-hurricane-helene-away-from-tallahassee\/\">https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/fsu-mag-lab-conspiracy-theory-pushed-hurricane-helene-away-from-tallahassee\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theory Suggesting World\u2019s Largest Magnet Pushed Hurricane Helene Away From Florida State Gains Traction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}