BuckyBalls

In Physics class this week, the class was beleaguered with a torrent of strange and challenging labs. Amidst the cacophony of the classroom, some equally cacophonous lab partners discovered a chain of silver beads: BuckyBalls. While these BuckyBalls may be arranged into any conceivable arrangement, their secret is not so grand. Each ball is simply a magnetic dipole with a North and a South side. The fields of each individual ball interacts with all the other ones in order to form an undulating mass of metal. Some people like to make regular shapes with the BuckyBalls while others are content with mashing the poor spheres between their hands.