Submitted by AlarmingAffect0 t3_yheipf in askscience
rootofallworlds t1_iuihm0d wrote
Reply to comment by Aquatic-Vocation in Is there such a thing as a gamma radiation mirror? by AlarmingAffect0
More like a disintegration field. You know how atoms are round? Not in a magnetic field of 10^5 Tesla or more they aren't. The magnetic field is strong enough to distort the electron orbitals into narrow rods and ordinary molecules just fall apart. https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/biblio/6961623 To borrow a phrase from Randall Munroe, "you would stop being biology and start being physics."
Oh, and the vacuum becomes birefringent - the speed of light depends on its polarisation.
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