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Do Enormous Magnets Affect the Human Body? (1983)
- VLM 12y agoThe answer is obviously yes, Google for "Peripheral nerve stimulation", this is old stuff, any magnetic flux cause by the field changing or the person moving can generate a current, possibly with an enormous magnet high enough to be barely felt. I've occasionally wondered about those magnetic EMP bombs that are only semi-declassified, the superconducting rings, would it be possible to be close enough to feel the magnetic flux without being vaporized by the charge that sets it off? Probably not, but its interesting to think about. Magnetic effects on biology suffer pretty badly from the same problems as radiation and RF. Terror / hatred of what isn't understood (which is usually a lot), lack of understanding about orders of magnitude, lack of understanding that being able to calculate something doesn't imply it means anything aka the astrological effect, binary thinking about safety and danger... This is aside from the obvious physical dangers. I've ended up with band aids due to shattering magnets, luckily never anything worse.