Levitation
We have been fascinated with the subject of Levitation since early times. It has been the goal of many eastern yogis. Also it has been a big part of Illusionists shows from as far back as we can remember.
So what is the fascination of Levitation? Is it a deeper meaning of wanting to achieve the flying sensations of lucid dreams, or is it the freedom feeling that we experience inside, that many are trying to seek?
Whatever the reasons, which are numerous to different people, scientists have achieved this feat. Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.
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. They have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.
So what is this Casimir force you ask, the force is due to neither electrical charge or gravity, for example, but the fluctuations in all energy fields in the intervening empty space between the objects and is one reason atoms stick together, also explaining a “dry glue” effect that enables a gecko to walk across a ceiling.
Now, using a special lens of a kind that has already been built, Prof Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin report in the New Journal of Physics they can engineer the Casimir force to repel, rather than attract.
It seems to be proven again that so called Science Fiction always has an element of scientific fact. Is this a knowledge that we somehow have lost and are rediscovering it? If so it could explain a lot of mysteries in our world, including the pyramids in Egypt. It is amazing that we are trying so hard to visit other planets, when we still don’t even understand the one we live on.
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