Magnetic gravity trick grows perfect crystals Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Magnetic gravity trick grows perfect crystals
# 10247 bydsw_s@... on Aug. 13, 2007, 6:13 a.m.
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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "R.A. Hettinga" wrote:
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> The approach uses the same principle famously employed to levitate a
> live frog in 1997. This exploits the fact that diamagnetic materials -
> including most organic materials - are repelled by very strong
> magnetic fields as a result of changes in the orbital motion of their
> electrons.
Could this be used for pseudogravity, instead of having entire
structures rotate? (Assuming we had something that is to present
electromagnets as a laser is to an incandescent light bulb.)