Tuesday, August 7, 2007

levitation now feasible as well

Casimir force is not something that i'm overly familiar with, but apparently scientists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have managed to find a way to get it to repel instead of attract. Apparently they can use this to levitate small objects to an extent.

Yeah. Levitation.

More please. The article points out that these are the same researchers who show that invisibility cloaks are possible.

1 comment:

slickdpdx said...

As a kid I wondered whether you couldn't fashion an invisibility cloak utilizing the reflective properties of heat on the atmosphere (think mirage) - but anything that worked that way would be easily observed in others...