My Dad was(and maybe still is) a follower of Transcendental Meditation. We always thought it was a hoot, the thought that he might levitate one day. My brother and I were very scathing, with visions of him floating off the kitchen table. Such cynics, the Scots.
Scientists from my home town, St Andrews have made big steps (floats?) and have demonstrated levitation for small objects.
Casimir force — discovered in 1948 and first measured in 1997 — can be seen in a gecko’s ability to stick to a surface with just one toe.
Now the scientists from St Andrews University say they can reverse the Casimir force to cause an object to repel rather than attract another in a vacuum.
“The Casimir force is the ultimate cause of friction in the nano world, in particular in some micro-electromechanical systems,” said Leonhardt, writing in the August issue of New Journal of Physics.
Now to move on to 100 kilogram objects. ummmmmmmmmm
