While Maradona remained a lively source of fascination on the touchlines, his heir apparent, and the man predicted by many to stamp his authority on this World Cup as his iconic coach did in Mexico in 1986, Barcelona's Fifa World Player of the Year Messi, was a magnetic focal point on the pitch.

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They had been looking for the point at which the magnetic field and the plasma switch from a slow, gentle waltz to something like an American square dance.

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The magnetic field is also more intense at this point, whereas before hitting this point, Voyager 1 had been detecting a decrease in its intensity.

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Aside from being the place to hop on the boat to Magnetic Island, it is also a popular departure point for diving courses on the Great Barrier Reef.

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But Saxe's lab, using a machine called a transcranial magnetic stimulator, which applies an electromagnetic pulse to a targeted point in the brain, can temporarily disable the function in the TPJ and change what people think about someone else's actions.

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The Geographic pole is the top of the axis on which the earth spins, the Magnetic pole is where the compass points to, and the Arctic pole is the point on the Arctic Ocean furthest from any land.

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The magnetic forces will push it towards the centre, but gravity will pull it downwards until an equilibrium point is attained.

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They tend, on balance, to point up, as this means that they are pointing in the same direction as the magnetic field a configuration that is much more stable than the reverse.

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