TransformerRobot Posted July 14, 2013 Posted July 14, 2013 I've seen it done with a small frog. How could it be done with a human being (If at all plausible)?
John Cuthber Posted July 15, 2013 Posted July 15, 2013 It would be possible, you just need a bigger magnet, which would be expensive.
Visionary Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 It would probably be very very expensive. You're better off putting a human with a diamagnetic material, or a superconductor and do some awesome things
Enthalpy Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 As humans also contain much of diamagnetic water, it would work - BUT it's a matter of size and power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism (the frog) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation#Diamagnetism www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvWtEdY4sE(water free surface deformed by a permanent magnet) For the frog, they had 16T... JPL levitated mice later. All these are in the many-MW area, which explains why teams choose small objects or beings.
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