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   Keith Harwood to Paul F. Dietz   
   Re: Diamagnetic levitation   
   27 Jan 04 09:29:53   
   
   From: vitalmis@bigpond.net.au   
      
   Paul F. Dietz wrote:   
      
   > Keith Harwood wrote:   
   >> Zoltan Szakaly wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>You could create a bed that levitates you and so it is   
   >>>more confortable than the usual foam stuff.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> So long as you don't have fillings in your teeth.   
   >   
   > Fillings?  This isn't inductive.   
      
   It is when you are moving into or out of the field, or if   
   you are already in place, when the field is turned on or   
   off. Even for the quite modest fields available from iron   
   magnets small, slow movements in a static uniform field can   
   heat fillings enough to crack teeth.   
      
   Keith Harwood.   
      
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