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Back of the envelope tells me levitating a person would need a magnetic field 10x that of this frog droplet, or about 160 T. The magnetic pressure of a 160 T magnetic field 1.5 million psi, or about 100x the pressure at the bottom on the Marianna Trench, and also about 1/3rd the detonation pressure of military high explosives.


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