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I think you would be killed by the diamagnetic properties of water first... If you can affect water with a small magnet like this: https://www.youtube.com/wat

I think you would be killed by the diamagnetic properties of water first... If you can affect water with a small magnet like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvWtEdY4sE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvWtEdY4sE Then a magnetic field of sufficient power would probably kill you long before the effects described in the article. I'm amazed that someone other than me has thought about this!

VLM 12y ago
Blood electrocution would get you first. Moving conductor in a magnetic field generates a current, and you'd just need a current big enough to confuse the cardiac nerves. Given that existing MRI research magnets can give weird nervous system feelings when patients wiggle, just an order of magnitude or two more and you'd get knocked out by your own circulating blood.
- makomk 12y ago
  Don't most of the problems with nerve stimulation in existing MRI systems come from the gradient coils rapidly modulating the magnetic field, rather than people moving around?
  - loveNanaya 12y ago
    Gradient effects in general: http://www.mrisafety.com/SafetyInfov.asp?SafetyInfoID=250 http://www.mrisafety.com/SafetyInfov.asp?SafetyInfoID=250 http://professional.medtronic.com/video-player/index.htm?contentid=ASSETS_117131&chapnum=2#.VLRCJGTF87M http://professional.medtronic.com/video-player/index.htm?con...