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    Default Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation

    Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.
    In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.
    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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    Default Re: Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation

    This is awesome. I don't remember the specifics, but on the last day of chemistry class my professor demonstrated levition with a superconductor in liquid nitrogen. Amazing!

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    Is it bad that a great scientific discovery has occurred and all I can think is that model really needs to buy hand lotion?


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    LOL I didn't even notice before, but yeah, she does!

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    Default Re: Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation

    Quote Originally Posted by lildreamer316 View Post
    Levitation has been elevated
    That part made me laugh.
    "He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    Is it bad that a great scientific discovery has occurred and all I can think is that model really needs to buy hand lotion?

    KILL ME ROFL

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