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Levitation
Topic Started: Aug 7 2007, 02:47 AM (112 Views)
phykell
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...levitate106.xml

Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a Harry Potter book, the University of St Andrews team has created an 'incredible levitation effects’ by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together.

Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts that levitate But they say that, in principle at least, the same effect could be used to levitate bigger objects too, even a person.

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Mikhailoh
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Bring it on. I will never move mulch by hand again.

'Honey, bring me my wand... I want to lift this box. Wingardium Leviosa!'
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Mikhailoh
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Bump..

We need a little levity levitation.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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