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Re: How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?

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Post by ufmace » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 5:47 AM UTC

gameshot911 wrote: post #11

The sci-fi book Blingsight by Peter Watts explores humanity's 1st encounter with an alien object that contains extremely powerful magnetic fields. Has all sorts of interesting consequences.

I read that one. Not the greatest from a raw storytelling point of view, but one of the more interesting portrayals of what alien life might be like that I've read.

Re: How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?

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Post by cLeEOGPw » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 7:26 AM UTC

swamp40 wrote: post #40

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #3

I think that you'd end up with neurological effects before the electrons were ripped out of atoms. I mean, our nervous system is effectively controlled ionic exchange.

Here's a video of someone braver than myself experimenting with the effects of magnetism on his brain while he speaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtNPqCj-iA

This is awesome. Wonder if it could be possible to make military helms that would prevent solders from disobeying orders or for helping them stay calm and focused by shutting panic part of brain.

Re: How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?

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Post by PhasmaFelis » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 9:53 AM UTC

wallflower wrote: post #49

I've always wondered what would happen if you got trapped in the Superconducting Super Collider. Terminator 3 Particle Accelerator Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKFnsFFdPh8

We do have an example of a synchrotron researcher who took a proton beam to his head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

Surprisingly, he survived, with significant but not disabling neurological damage.