Levitation possible

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The two things I wonder about now are tempreture and portability.
 
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razorgrade said:
it says absolutely nothing about people having the ability to levitate
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Neither did Triedit.

Although the article DOES mention levitating people (it says so underneath the picture, too, only a quarter of the way down the article). As the article says:
"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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All this has nothing to do with magnetics. These British scientists (once again the British leading the world in scientific discoveries and breakthroughs) say that the Casimir effect can be used to to levitate ANY object, wheter it's magnetic or not. The Casimir effect is the force that causes objects to stick together. It's probably this force that helps to hold atoms and molecules together. But by REVERSING this force, causing objects to repel one another rather than be attracted to one another, this could cause levitation. If the force was to be used on a saucer, and you tried to place the saucer on a table, the reversed Casimir effect would cause the saucer to be repelled from the table, making literally float above the table. It's quite ingenious, really.

Maybe a few decades in the future, levitating objects may become a common sight. People might wear levitating shoes to make them float a few feet above the ground for fun.

According to Wikipedia:

In physics, the Casimir effect or Casimir-Polder force is a physical force exerted between separate objects due to resonance of all-pervasive energy fields in the intervening space between the objects. This is sometimes described in terms of virtual particles interacting with the objects, due to the mathematical form of one possible way of calculating the strength of the effect. Because the strength of the force falls off rapidly with distance, it is only measurable when the distance between the objects is extremely small. On a submicron scale, this force becomes so strong that it becomes the dominant force between uncharged conductors. Indeed at separations of 10 nm — about a hundred times the typical size of an atom — the Casimir effect produces the equivalent of 1 atmosphere of pressure (101.3 kPa).
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