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A fun fact is that, if memory doesn't fool me, the levitating frog experiment was carried out by Micheal Berry and Andre Geim, and they were awarded the ignobel for it. Berry is the same one of the Berry phase for which he received a ton of non-humorous awards, and Geim went on to discover graphene and receive a Nobel without the ig in front.
Is Geim the only person so far to receive a Nobel after receiving an Ig Nobel?
Any chance of magnetically repelling a person from a ceiling, and/or attracting them from the floor, to create artificial gravity in space?
No. The magnetic field needed increases as the size of the levitated region increases. For something as big as a person the magnetic field would require magnets made of impossibly strong materials to resist the JxB forces.
Frogs are the new LK-99?
Any chance of magnetically repelling a person from a ceiling, and/or attracting them from the floor, to create artificial gravity in space?
Much simpler to use constant acceleration (or spinning)...
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Is Geim the only person so far to receive a Nobel after receiving an Ig Nobel?
Yes (in either order)
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Just have them wear clothes made with ferromagnetic material, should have a similar effect.
Not even close but thanks for playing.
Any chance of magnetically repelling a person from a ceiling, and/or attracting them from the floor, to create artificial gravity in space?
Frogs are the new LK-99?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. The magnetic field needed increases as the size of the levitated region increases. For something as big as a person the magnetic field would require magnets made of impossibly strong materials to resist the JxB forces.
So you’re saying there’s a way.