Apart from the tremndous satisfaction of doing it, is there any reason to degauss your computer monitor? What are the consequences of too much gauss? Where doe the gauss go?
(I just did it…could you tell?)
If somebody else’s monitor is close, like in the cubicle behind your monitor, you can degauss yours to make theirs wiggle.
Everytime you DeGauss, you transport yourself into a parallel dimension. That’s why the keys aren’t where you put 'em.
One of the units for measuring magnetic fields is the Gauss. Tiny magnetic fields buildup, esp. inside the front of a monitor, over time. These little fields bend the electron beams and mess up the color and sharpness of the image. (You can really mess up a monitor big time using a strong magnet. Placing poorly shielded speakers near a monitor is also a no-no.) Degaussing produces a medium varying magnetic field that overwhelms the small fields and then fades away. Hence the shaky screen when you degauss.
It’s the electronic version of shaking your orange juice to get the pulp evenly mixed. (Smile from FtG.)