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   Message 1,352 of 3,113   
   Gordon D. Pusch to Keith Harwood   
   Re: Diamagnetic levitation   
   26 Jan 04 20:00:27   
   
   From: g_d_pusch_remove_underscores@xnet.com   
      
   Keith Harwood  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   ...And even without fillings, the EMF induced by too-rapid head-movements   
   in a multi-tesla field can do, uh, _interesting_ things to your brain...   
      
      
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