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I'd surmise that a miniature probe could get a free trajectory to the Sun by taking advantage of this. Not sure how low a mass it would have to be though.

• madaxe 14y ago
  Why miniature? Hook into the MFLs with some big coils and you can drag pretty much anything through the field. The sun's magnetic field is immensely powerful compared to anything we're familiar with on earth.
  • oddthink 14y ago
    The solar wind is a few nT, while Earth's field is tens of uT. You're not going to be moving anything with that.
    • madaxe 14y ago
      Not talking solar wind in terms of photon pressure, talking magnetic flux coupling.
• drzaiusapelord 14y ago
  If this force was non-trivial we'd see it when we send out spacecraft or it would affect things in orbit. My gut feeling is that a theoretical probe that could use this would have to weigh so little that it wouldn't be worth creating or its size would greatly limit what it could do.