# Levetation party trick (HUMAN DIAMAGNETISM GRAVITY ANTENNA LEVITATION) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 2, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060 "2003-06-02T03:36:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cleric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@Cleric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleric)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/1 "2003-06-02T03:36:47Z")
according to [[http://www.castleofspirits.com/levitation.html](http://www.castleofspirits.com/levitation.html)](this page,) You are able to leviate someone as a party trick. It seems too out of this world to be true and searching in this archive and google yielded nothing. Has this been performed successfully and what is supposed to happen if you do. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/2 "2003-06-02T03:43:25Z")
Don’t put gibberish in your titles. Just pick a good one to begin with. Email a mod and ask him/her to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/3 "2003-06-02T04:01:06Z")
The link doesn´t work. However, my little knowledge of the concept is that, yes; you could levitate a human on a powerful magnetic field because of it´s very minuscule diamagnetism. I´ve seen picture of a frog floating that way… of course it was a small frog; a human would need the mother and father of all magnets working togheter to break it´s earthly bonds. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/4 "2003-06-02T04:06:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\*Don’t put gibberish in your titles. Just pick a good one to begin with. > > Email a mod and ask him/her to fix it. \*\* The OP title was taken from the webpage linked above. [http://www.castleofspirits.com/levitation.html](http://www.castleofspirits.com/levitation.html) > [@](#): > > This levitating trick is really quite scientific and not paranormal in nature it has to do with HUMAN DIAMAGNETISM GRAVITY ANTENNA LEVITATION, you can read Richard LeFors Clark’s book on this and you might gain a better insight into levitation and how to make it work for you and what’s behind it. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/5 "2003-06-02T04:27:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Seven \* > \*\*The OP title was taken from the webpage linked above. > > [http://www.castleofspirits.com/levitation.html](http://www.castleofspirits.com/levitation.html) \*\* Doesn’t make it non-gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/6 "2003-06-02T10:04:56Z")
Yes, many people can lift one person with an ease that is surprising. The easily impressed could call this _levitation_, others might call it “many hands make light work”. Why the authors of this page chose to shroud this party trick in scientific mumbo-jumbo is any body’s guess. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/7 "2003-06-02T12:54:56Z")
“Gibber, fester, bitter; pick any two.” --Bizarro Engineering Proverb 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/8 "2003-06-02T14:05:20Z")
As **Ale** correctly posted, it is possible to levitate a very small frog using a very large magnetic field (and I’ve also heard of strawberries being levitated in the same way). However, though it’s technically possible to do it with people, the electromagnet would require a power supply equivalent to the output of a large power station (as **Ale** partly implied). Still the frogs are pretty 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/levetation-party-trick-human-diamagnetism-gravity-antenna-levitation/179060/9 "2003-06-02T14:10:53Z")
To make myself clearer, diamagnetism exists (though not as explained on the linked site), but has nothing to do with the phenomenon of many people lifting someone easily, as **The Great Unwashed** explained. Using diamagnetism to levitate someone is theoretically possible, but requires considerably more resources than are usually available at your average party (unless I’m going to the wrong parties…)