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"Magnetism warping space-time?"

Well, gravity certainly does. So the question may be paraphrased as, how does gravity relate to magnetism?

From physics.stackexchange.com:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/136752...

TL;DR: summary seems to be: "Magnetic effect on gravity: In technical terms: yes. For practical purposes: no."

But, the reason for "practical purposes being no" is the disparity in strengthen between magnetism and gravity: " This answer suggests that if you could somehow generate a magnetic field that was strong enough, you could create artificial gravity. That would have to be an unimaginably strong field to produce anything practical, however"

And so when you're talking about "the strongest magnetic fields in the universe", then, well, I guess, sounds good, maybe.

--sutton
Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a physicist

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