Originally posted by CosmicComet
Take a palm sized magnet and try to pull back a dropped paper clip with it. You will succeed.Now, say you drop a battleship, and try to pull it back from hitting the ground using the strongest continuous magnet in the world. Will it succeed? Hell no.
well of course u can't move a battleship just like that. duh..
u can feel the force of magnetism because it's obvious. lift a paperclip from the ground. feels as if there's no force. but it's obvious the pull of gravity because it stay's in one spot on the ground. now take a relatively weak magnet and place it on the ground. put a paperclip right over it. you can actually feel the force of magnetism. hey, I ain't going against my physics professor. it's troo gravity has greater potential when it involves objects with large masses.