The Magnet So Powerful It Explodes Copper WiresS  The average
American refrigerator generates a magnetic field of one-half
Tesla. The world-record breaking magnet developed by the High
Magnetic Field Laboratory in Dresden generates nearly 200 times
that much, a whopping 91.4 Tesla.  The magnet, dubbed the Pulse
Cell, is about the size of a paint bucket (55cm tall, 32cm
across) and weighs 440 pounds. It's constructed from a special
copper alloy wire fitted into custom-designed Kevlar corsets and
wrapped in a steel jacket, allowing it to withstand the massive
force of over 90 Tesla. "At 100 Tesla...the Lorentz force inside
the copper would generate a pressure which equals 40,000 times
the air pressure at sea level," calculates HZDR (Helmholtz-
Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf - High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Dresden) director Joachim Wosnitza—enough to power to make the
wiring literally explode.  Basically, when the charge gets large
enough, the force of the current flowing through the wire and
the magnetic field it g