Levetation Now a Reality


	Levetation Now a Reality

tonya-yvonne

8-7-2007 9:45 AM

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levetation, hover, back to the future, marty mcfly

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/61efe321-1926-4439-8a6f-2eb6d334dd21/20742511-A8E9-4FD7-A547-F8D1774252AC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/levitation-disc.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/levitation-disc.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/levitation-disc.html"><H3>Levitation Discovered: Hoverboards Coming Soon</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/levitation-disc.html">We might not have to wait until <A 
href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096874/">2015</A> for a hoverboard after all, 
as scientists at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have succeeded in 
making levitation a reality. By using an already existing lens to reverse what 
is known as the Casimir Effect, physicists Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas 
Philbin have managed to make a force which repels instead of attracting. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/levitation-disc.html"><P>The <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect">Casimir force</A> works at the quantum level, where energy fluctuations can have a huge effect on particle attraction. In theory the new force can be scaled up to levite people, although at first it is likely to be used as a kind of non-stick coating inside circuits. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/levitation-disc.html"><P>Here at the Lab, though, we're more psyched by the possiblilities of frictionless bike hubs, floating beer bottles and of course, Marty McFly's floating marvel. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/20742511-A8E9-4FD7-A547-F8D1774252AC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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