How to levitate for real?

Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. They are:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Levitation has always been a magic trick which never fails to amaze the viewers. In this article we will take a look, what happens when science wants to make things levitate no tricks only magnetism.


The Iron and other ferromagnetic materials (that is, ones that are naturally drawn to a magnet) are themselves made up of lots of individual minute magnets.These tiny magnets all line up in parallel when put next to a magnet. This allows the iron or ferromagnetic substance to produce its own magnetic field and attract the permanent magnet. The condition for this to happen is that there must be substantial concentrated amount of iron to be in the vicinity of the magnet. 

Our blood contains only 5 grams of iron which is evenly distributed in 4.7-5 litres of blood in an average person so getting affected to a magnet just because of iron is doubtful.But it cannot be said that we are not affected by very strong magnetic fields. It is not because of iron in the body and it is certainly not attraction but instead magnets repel water and 60 % of our body is water this is because of phenomena of diamagnetic property of water. 

The magnetic strength is measured by an apparatus called magnetometer or also called gaussmeter. The magnetism is measured in Tesla which is a standard international unit. But do you know that how much is one Tesla lets take a look first we have to convert 1 Tesla into gauss which is a sububit like centimetres and metres. 

1 TESLA = 10,000 Gauss

Earth's Magnetic feild = Half gauss

Fridge magnet = 100 gauss

MRI = 1500 gauss

Now you can imagine that even the MRI which has a strong magnet is only has 0.015 Tesla strength. So one to levitate needs how many Tesla Magnetic strength depends on Size of the magnet, distance of the magnet and many more parameters. But a frog is a different question it can levitate at least it hovers if placed in a magnetic field of 16 Tesla. It has been already tested in Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory.

So to levitate you don't need to be Magneto just buy a super-strong magnet obviously much higher that 16 Tesla and make sure you have the capacity to carry it around. See the Magic yourself in the below given video.

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