Art Gallery of Children's Art for the Science of Tomorrow

House that floats with superconducting magnets

House that floats with superconducting magnets
NAME Yuto Umemori
AGE 8
PRIZE The Prize of the Director of the National Science Museum
COMMENTARY Strong magnets below the house and on the ground stick to each other most of the time, but when there is an earthquake, an electric current flows and these pairs of magnets repel each other. The house floats above the ground, so it is not shaken.