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Suck it, Casimir

B.C.B.C. is a bee!remember me?Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Social Entropy++
Science
Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.


In theory the discovery could be used to levitate a person
In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.

Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a Harry Potter book, 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.

Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.


Man, a break through this big that will help the field of nanotech is awesome, but they need to get back to me when they finally get around to making the hoverboards we all want.

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oh god, if this means I can fly I will be SO happy.

    If this is a lie, I'm going to track you down BC and slit your throat with my dick.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    What the helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    you know, we've been able to make things levitate at least since the discovery of magnets so what's the big fucking deal about this?

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  • Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    key thing about announcements like this
    In theory the discovery could be used to levitate a person

    so while it would be the most awesome thing (so awesome) I won't get my hopes up for it any time soon

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Because I want a realistic iron man costume dru.

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oh god, if this means I can fly I will be SO happy.

    If this is a lie, I'm going to track you down BC and slit your throat with my dick.

    Hey man I'm just the messenger.
    These are the same dudes that believe they have proven invisibility cloaks to be a feasible thing.
    It's like they're taking our child hood dreams and making them reality.

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    FUCK YES

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    For a moment lets dream of a world where we can fly and be invisible and do cool flying things.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    guys this is just stupid journalistic hype
    the science is probably entirely valid but the press is making this sound like oh my god they've discovered levitation
    guess what they haven't, been around for a while

    use your fucking brains

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    that is badass

    though i'd never use it myself

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  • Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    guys this is just stupid journalistic hype
    the science is probably entirely valid but the press is making this sound like oh my god they've discovered levitation
    guess what they haven't, been around for a while

    use your fucking brains

    yeah pretty much this

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    also have none of you noticed the article is almost a YEAR OLD?

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    guys this is just stupid journalistic hype
    the science is probably entirely valid but the press is making this sound like oh my god they've discovered levitation
    guess what they haven't, been around for a while

    use your fucking brains

    Druhim, do not ruin our fantasies.
    For what else will we have?

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    what I'm saying is this is a shitty topic

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So in real terms this means my pocket PC will be able to play StarCraft 3 whenever that comes out, am I getting this?

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  • Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    bahaha man why don't I ever click on the link to the article

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Dru, I still have an inner child, and that inner child wants to believe. Truthfully, I completely understand that this is hyped and simplized beyond words so that it's grabby and eye catching, but on the inside, I just want to close my eyes and dream of flying through the blue sky on a sunny day, my fingers skating on the water of a pond below me.

    And when I'm tired of that one, I'm gonna starting thinking about doing it in the air.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    ffffaaaaaaagssssss

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Man, sex in the air would be a matter of bumping into walls and shit.


    Forget that mess.

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    : The movie

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'd watch it.

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    Man, sex in the air would be a matter of bumping into walls and shit.


    Forget that mess.

    worked fine in Hitchhikers Guide

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    Man, sex in the air would be a matter of bumping into walls and shit.


    Forget that mess.

    worked fine in Hitchhikers Guide

    Really, it worked fine in a work of fiction.

    I wouldn't have guessed.

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  • Filler Inc.Filler Inc. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Worked fine in charlie and the chocolate factory.

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Man, sex in the air would be a matter of bumping into walls and shit.


    Forget that mess.

    worked fine in Hitchhikers Guide

    Really, it worked fine in a work of fiction.

    I wouldn't have guessed.

    SARUKUN IS BEING A WEINERFACE

    I WOULDNT HAVE GUESSED

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Worked fine in charlie and the chocolate factory.

    did Charlie and Grandpa Joe have sex while they were floating?

    is that in the book only?

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  • B.C.B.C. is a bee! remember me?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Shit I may have to learn how to read.

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  • Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    "Grandpa Joe, we're headed into that huge fan! I don't want to die not knowing the touch of another man..."

    ??

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Man, sex in the air would be a matter of bumping into walls and shit.


    Forget that mess.

    worked fine in Hitchhikers Guide

    Really, it worked fine in a work of fiction.

    I wouldn't have guessed.

    SARUKUN IS BEING A WEINERFACE

    I WOULDNT HAVE GUESSED

    LOOK HERE, SON YOU ARE ALREADY ON THIN ICE AFTER THE PHALLOS DEBACLE

    UNLESS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A DICK IN THE EAR I SUGGEST YOU TOE THE LINE

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Man, sex in the air would be a matter of bumping into walls and shit.


    Forget that mess.

    worked fine in Hitchhikers Guide

    Really, it worked fine in a work of fiction.

    I wouldn't have guessed.

    SARUKUN IS BEING A WEINERFACE

    I WOULDNT HAVE GUESSED

    LOOK HERE, SON YOU ARE ALREADY ON THIN ICE AFTER THE PHALLOS DEBACLE

    UNLESS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A DICK IN THE EAR I SUGGEST YOU TOE THE LINE

    YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!!

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  • The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Feasible invisibility cloaks?

    I think these guys are just sensationalist milkers

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    the cloak thing is old news and it didn't really make things invisible as it just kind of obscured what exactly was there with an obviously holographic looking image of what was on the other side of it
    so you could still see that something was there because the light passing "through" it was distorted pretty noticably

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'll believe this news report when I actually see it in a peer-reviewed journal.

    I suppose they also got cold fusion to work, like the last dozen people who said they did. :rotate:

    Why isn't there an eye-roll emoticon for this board any more?

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    the cloak thing is old news and it didn't really make things invisible as it just kind of obscured what exactly was there with an obviously holographic looking image of what was on the other side of it
    so you could still see that something was there because the light passing "through" it was distorted pretty noticably

    And the earliest televisions didn't really transmit images, they transmitted blurry shapes vaguely reminiscent of the original image.

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    ah yes i love walking into threads and crushing hope and optimism

    it's the best

    jesus

    any greater understanding of a natural principle can lead to technological advances, however slight they may start as

    it's certainly nothing to be actively pessimistic about

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    Bemis we're not being pessimistic we're pointing out the wild hype and lack of any substantial information in the article. I already said in an earlier post that the science was probably perfectly valid, it's just that this article completely blows it out of proportion and makes it sound like we'll have personal hovercars and be able to fly like superheroes any day now.

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    well sure

    but i like to believe everyone here is intelligent enough to understand that

    perhaps an unrealistic hope

    but like filler was saying, nothing wrong with a little woo woo science flying cars woo

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    They do that a lot on that website it seems.


    There was an article talking about how flying carpets are totally plausible.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Sure, you just need a Djinn to guide it.

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