Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 65 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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oxide enables the energised tape to be ‘played back’ past a pick-up head many times without deterioration of quality or strength of reproduction. This tech- nique allows four independent sound _tracks to be recorded simultaneously side by side on Cinemascope film, as well as the picture. Magnetism remains a fundamental and universal phenomenon with an eternal fascination. There are certain ‘magnetic’ stars having terrestrial magnetic fields some 50,000 times stronger than the Earth’s field. At the other end of the scale, the spinning electrons surrounding the nucleus of any element have a magnetic moment. Man’s attempts to harness magnetism permanently are relatively new—little longer than half a century. During this short period, the development of new materials has gone on apace, the latest columnar crystal magnets having a stored energy about thirty times that of Faraday’s one per cent. carbon steel. And the theoretical ultimate is yet a long way from being reached. comicbooks.com