just keep in mind it's going to have its polarity aligned in a way that disfavours strongly attracting things, i want it for the big field not the big pull
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I thought the magnetic field was egg-shaped, nor like a ray.
magnetic fields are roughly spherical, composed of two toruses (torii?) whose centre is the pole, at best you might say lemon shaped, or maybe apple shaped is more accurate because deflection is weakest at the poles
so, if you are using a magnetic field as a shield, its shielding is stronger everywhere except the poles, and the shape of a pair of cylindrical magnets makes them best to orient horizontally like a choker bracelet, the strong attraction areas are then to your left and right not in front of you, that's where the greatest amount of perpendicular flux is, ie, the shielding effect
You should at least consider using a 'flux concentrator' (magnetic field concentrator) of some kind
these would have to be things like rings of pyrolytic carbon right?
let me know if you experience any teleportation of any kind.
I had a dream in which i could see flux lines around myself, as if it were a magnet, and on the periphery where the flux lines intersected with some other flux lines (not sure who those belonged to), someone appeared in a box.
at least in the dream, i was like "Aha, that's how teleportation works."