From: dietz@dls.net   
      
   Keith Harwood wrote:   
   > Zoltan Szakaly wrote:   
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   >>You could create a bed that levitates you and so it is   
   >>more confortable than the usual foam stuff.   
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   > So long as you don't have fillings in your teeth.   
      
   Fillings?  This isn't inductive.   
      
   The big problem is that diamagnetic levitation causes   
   a force that's proportional to B times the gradient   
   of B.  The larger the object being levitated, the higher   
   the peak field must be.  Good for levitating mice or frogs,   
   not so good for levitating people.   
      
   You could use this technology to locally adjust the   
   acceleration on protein and water molecules in crystallization   
   experiments, getting many of the putative advantages of microgravity   
   in a terrestrial lab.  That no one has been doing this suggests   
   to me that those advantages were greatly overstated.   
      
   	Paul   
      
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