CRT televisions operate by shooting electrons at the screen Magnetic fields deflect moving electrons, so placing a magnet near the CRT gives you this neat way to visualize the magnetic field linespic.twitter.com/q1W8lv5Oqh
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and when attached to an antenna and tuned to a dead channel (3 in my area) it will display some of the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.
