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Originally Posted by Kaptain K
The gravitational pull of the electromagnet on the steel is negligible and would be would be orders of magnitude less from 6000 kilometers away, but it would still be there (in the same ratio to its magnetic attraction).
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Originally Posted by Taibak
Good point - and bad wording on my part.
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Well, don’t worry about that. If we always had to worry about our exact wording, we would always be afraid to say anything. What irritates me the most is physics books and textbook saying things that aren’t true, and that have never been true, and that obviously aren’t true.