A piece of metal melted inside a magnet

Well, that explains a lot, but what about the pencil

Whenever metals move in a magnetic field, it causes the electrons in the metal to move which creates an electric current (the induction effect/Eddy currents). The resistance to the current causes heat to generate. So the stronger the magnet, the stronger the electric current, the more heat gets generated, until the metal is hot enough to melt.

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Thankyou.

i'ts actually an electromagnet. powered by electricity

how the **** did you make the eye thing do that

I have wondered this as well.


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Oh well okay, ;D You put a spoiler before a spoiler, and leave the first one Blank

nice

smaller coil = less current

Ahh.

Then it'll fall eventually, don't you think?

But it'd be in a teardrop shape and not a splat shape

It'd fall, while still hot, after all, being suspended in the magnetic field got that thing heated up. Decreasing the magnetic intensity will both decrease energy transferred to the metal and eventually allow it to (slowly) fall. Energy put into the metal will probably never be less than the heat it radiates if it can still be suspended (it requires quite strong magnetic fields to levitate stuff)