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Can an electromagnetic move organic material?



Extremely powerful fields can levitate a frog - so yes.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/04/how-did-you-g...


Probably not in a useful way; the induced currents would produce far too much heat.


If it's strong enough, probably. I mean, MRIs kind of work that way.


Yes the 45 Tesla magnet in Tallahassee can levitate small non ferrous things like a strawberry in a little tube and draws 56 megawatts about 7% of the cities power grid.




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