Is this video fake or do I just suck at science?
The magnet moving near the copper causes a force that acts as a brake, slowing its natural motion down the pipe due to gravity. Where does the force come from? Electric currents and magnetic fields are closely related. If you have one, you often have (or can make) the other. The braking force in the demonstration is due to an eddy current. That's an electrical current that forms in the copper, in response to the moving magnetic field of the falling neodymium magnet. That eddy current produces a magnetic field of its own. The two magnetic fields overlap and slow the fall of the magnet.
Copper is not magnetic. However it is easy to magnetize a lightening rod. This is steel with a copper coating. It was all just a cheap magic trick. An iron or nickel object which is plated in copper will make it look like solid copper, which it isn't of course.
Copper itself is not magnetic. Put a current through a copper coil and you WILL create a magnetic field.
COPPER is NOT Magnetic. Forget the hoax video. Get a magnet and try it your self.
