Is it possible to actually levitate

However, previous research had always found that the size of the object was limited to the size of the wavelength of sound used. Meaning you could not levitate big objects. This was due to the way the sound works in a tornado-like structure, with loud sound surrounding a silent core.

Before, when the object was larger than the silent core, they had been really unstable and spun uncontrollably quickly, until they were ejected. But now the team have found that they can finely control the rate of rotation by changing the twisting direction of the vortices, keeping it stable.

They were then able to increase the size of the silent core to allow it to hold larger objects. Working with ultrasonic waves at a pitch of about 40kHz, a similar to pitch that only bats can hear, held a two-centimetre polystyrene sphere. This was the largest object trapped in a tractor beam yet.

This is evident in this short video documentary. In this case, we are talking about sophisticated technologies:. Imagine that you can blow air continuously, so that the obtained force will compensate gravity. This is quite simple. As usual, stability is the real issue. Many solutions were found, but the most interesting, by its simplicity and good precision, is a conical nozzle that can carry in levitation mm spheres.

Bigger balloons can float relatively stable, but not sufficient enough to levitate. The fact is that aerodynamic levitation exists. And it also has practical applications in various fields, such as glass production. A special version is the one called gas film levitation. Only in this case, because the lifting is done by the vehicle engines, it is debatable if this can be called levitation. But if a similar system is outside the lifted body, the conditions are satisfied.

Some gases, like xenon, have rather high density. If high pressure is exercised upon them, the density can rise so much that it will attain fluid properties, or even solid properties. An object can float on such a gas like a boat on water. This is buoyancy levitation. In the following video demonstration, a light box is floating on xenon, which being heavier than air, it does not leave the container:.

If the sound speaker is placed face up and you pour dust on it, the dust will start to jump under the impact of vibrations. How can you control these chaotic movements? Well, it is possible.

In more than one way even. So, acoustical levitation is possible. Levitating a few kg objects has been achieved. Some systems even allow movement of the levitated object above an emitters array, by a fine change of the intensities of some cells from the array.

Adamowski, published in Applied Physics Letters in January But you know something? Light is a wave, too. Sounds too good to be true, right? Arthur Ashkin managed to do this using a laser, that means an amplified light. In the installation he planned, dielectric spheres up to 50 micrometers can levitate.

And optical levitation is only in its infancy. Guccione, M. Hosseini, S. Adlong, M. Johnsson, J. Hope, B. Buchler, P. Lam in We are at the limit between science and science-fiction. By manipulating this effect, scientists have managed to make extremely small particles levitate.

For now, levitation with Casimir force is just a scientific curiosity, but, starting from here, who knows what can happen next. I know you would like to levitate, too.

But no one invented a machine that could produce a field strong enough to be able to lift you… however many kilograms you said you weigh? Anyway, chances for that to happen are plenty. You can use only the mystical path. You can learn some interesting things and find out a great mystery from a master.

Or you could come across a trickster and fall for his deceptive lies. Unfortunately, the last one is more likely. In any case, levitation will remain fascinating. One of the endless wonders. You will find out more by studying it. And playing with magnets. Did you like it? In case, it is possible to Levitate, you will not need any known transport to travel.

Just levitate and go where you want to go!!! In India, demonstrations have been given that you can Levitate. Disciples were taught Levitation by Mahesh Yogi and demonstrated in Delhi. Competitors were asked to sit cross legged, breath in a taught manner. They floated a few inches above the ground, in a Hall, spectators watching, they moved forward and dropped on the floor, one by one, only one reached the other end, to claim some Prize.

Photos were flashed in Newspapers the next day. The year , I was in Jhansi. Need a Guru to teach the Method! I believe some Yogies are there, even now, who travel by Levitation or some other unknown manner and travel wast distances to take objects or bring objects. It is believed Guru Nanak had such powers and traveled all over the Worled, along with Bala and Mardana, his two assistants. No one had seen him using any available transportation.

Or any flying object, which were Not in existence. One of his miracles is Sweet Reetha, which I am trying to grow in Secunderabad. Lt Col Amarjit Singh Retd. Years ago as teenagers in Catholic high school our Religious Education teacher told us about a group of girls leviateing a friend at a pajama party.

Of course at the next pj party we had to try it. We gathered around one of the girls lying on the floor , lightly touched our fingers to her, chanted , and she began to rise off the floor. She got about waist high , we all screamed , pulled our hands away and vowed never to do it again! Your email address will not be published.

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