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Secret to Levitation Unveiled

by Tim Stevens on August 7, 2007 at 09:29 AM

Hoverboard

If you're one of the suckers who, back in the '80s, believed that the hoverboards featured in 'Back to the Future 2' were real but were banned due to safety concerns, you may get the last laugh yet. Scientists have managed to reverse the so-called Casmir force, a gravity-like effect that pulls objects together with increasing strength the closer they become.

By reversing this force, scientists now believe they can repel objects on a microscopic scale to create tiny devices that run without any friction, resulting in what is essentially levitation as the objects repel one another. They say there is serious potential to expand this technique to a much greater scale, resulting in all sorts of things that hover and bob about, much like the aforementioned hoverboard.

We expect the market for overpriced, frictionless gaming mice to explode.

From Engadget

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