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Speaker 1: He's in with. This is an interesting one. An Australian astrophysicist.

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Speaker 2: He's been admitted to hospital after getting four magnets stuck.

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Speaker 1: Up his nose in an attempt.

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Speaker 2: To invent a device Sarah that stops people touching their

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Speaker 2: faces during the coronavirus outbreak. Now this is fair enough

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Speaker 2: because I feel like that I can't stop doing this.

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Speaker 2: I'm always touching my face and he joins us. Now, Daniel,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the show, buddy.

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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning.

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Speaker 1: So can you tell us what you were actually trying

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Speaker 1: to achieve? Daniel, Yeah, it was just.

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Speaker 3: A bit of fun something I thought of just really

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Speaker 3: while on the couch watching TV. I figured that we

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Speaker 3: all need to stop touching our face. It's something we

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Speaker 3: do unconsciously. Having a mask on your face can help

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Speaker 3: you touch, help you stop touching.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: But you know the virus has no problem getting through

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Speaker 3: a lot of these masks. So really we just need

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Speaker 3: to stop touching our faces.

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Speaker 4: Aren't magnets really dangerous? Like when you have kids, I

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Speaker 4: remember someone saying to me, the one thing you keep

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Speaker 4: them all two things batteries and magnets. Don't let them

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Speaker 4: put them near their face. So you shove them up

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Speaker 4: your nose.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. So loose magnets are very dangerous, and

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Speaker 3: especially powerful ones like the ones I was playing with.

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Speaker 1: So talks through the idea and what the magnets were.

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Speaker 1: Put paint a picture for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So these were little sort of seven millimeters wide

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Speaker 3: button magnets. The idea was that they would be embedded

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Speaker 3: in a bracelet or a ring or something. They wouldn't

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Speaker 3: have been loose, and so if you were to bring

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Speaker 3: your hand too close to your face, it would activate

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Speaker 3: a magnetic field sensor worn around the neck or something.

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Speaker 2: You would actually feel your finger or your hand pushing

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Speaker 2: it away, and then that would instantly trigger something in

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Speaker 2: your brian And so I can't do that.

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Speaker 3: No, I was going to hook it up to a

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Speaker 3: buzzer so you would get a able sound.

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Speaker 1: When did you know? When did you know that you're

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Speaker 1: in trouble? Genuine? What was the moment?

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Speaker 3: I mean when I there's the internet for a solution.

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Speaker 3: An eleven year old boy who had the same issue

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Speaker 3: came up, and in that case the solution was using

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Speaker 3: more magnets, right, So I used my last two Neodinny

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Speaker 3: magnets to try to remove the first two and they

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Speaker 3: ended up getting stuck, which is when I knew I

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Speaker 3: was in trouble.

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Speaker 1: So you're an astrophysicist and you decided to take some feedback.

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Speaker 2: From an eleven year old about how many magnets you

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Speaker 2: should stick up your bugle.

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Speaker 1: But I got that wrong.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, the case was published in a medical journal,

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Speaker 3: so it's a good resource.

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Speaker 2: So okay, when you get a couple of Okay, then

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Speaker 2: what do you do when you go into hospital?

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Speaker 1: What happened? How did they get the magnets out? Daniel?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they first tried with some tweezers, but they became

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Speaker 3: attracted to the magnets and it was a school for

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Speaker 3: them and painful for me. In the end, the first

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Speaker 3: doctor required some help, and so I had two doctors

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Speaker 3: pulling the magnets from each nostril and cheer force. That

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Speaker 3: eventually got them out.

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Speaker 4: And sort of when you pass out, is not pretend

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Speaker 4: to faint and hope that they'll just do it.

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Speaker 1: Without you having to be awake for it. That's terror.

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Speaker 2: Are you were qualified astrophysicists orre you're still studying?

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Speaker 1: Daniel?

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Speaker 3: No, I am, I'm working now.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you how how many years of study

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Speaker 2: did you have to do?

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Speaker 1: No, I just want to know how long did you

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Speaker 1: study for?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: It was seven years. Magnet you know?

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Speaker 1: And what are you doing there? Talk us, talk us

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Speaker 1: to what you do now besides magnet gear?

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Speaker 3: What I do?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 3: I study pulsars. I'm a radio astronomer, so I use

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Speaker 3: radio telescope. I use these pulsars as a tool to

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Speaker 3: study series of gravity in extreme conditions.

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Speaker 2: This is awesome, extraordinary, mate. Do you look, Daniel before

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Speaker 2: you go? Do you honestly believe that there's still something

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Speaker 2: in this where you can use the magnets in your

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Speaker 2: nose to actually repel your you know, your hand going

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Speaker 2: into your face.

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Speaker 1: Can it still work?

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Speaker 3: I mean potentially double.

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Speaker 1: Yourself with magnets, Daniel. We are posting some more magnets

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Speaker 1: to you as we speak. Good luck with you. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you coming on the show, buddy.

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Speaker 3: All right, thanks all so much.

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Speaker 1: It's in