DAMN YOU, PHYSICS!
If you drop a bunch of neodymium magnets down through a thick-walled copper pipe, an effect called eddy current braking (Lenz’s Law) will slow the magnets’ fall even though there’s no direct magnetic attraction between the copper and the magnets.
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