• DavidGA@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Magnets are snake oil. They have no effect on the human body. Don’t waste your money.

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      2 days ago

      I disagree. The human body is mostly water. Water is slightly diamagnetic. Therefore, a sufficiently strong magnet is capable of levitating a human body off the ground.

      Magnets can definitely have an effect, just not at puny neodymium magnet levels!

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        1 day ago

        I have a strong but as of yet untested theory that no human will ever levitate based on magnitized internal human water.

        A magnet sufficiently strong enough to levitate a human based on the water in the body is more likely to remove the water from the body instead.

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          1 day ago

          It works on frogs. The force is distributed over the whole body, so it’s no worse than gravity is on our bodies.