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By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:57:15 +0000

Very nice demonstration. Just a suggestion if I may; I wouldn’t use the word “prove”, it gives the wrong idea about science, which is not about “proving” things, but about giving plausible theoretical explanations to concepts. If we convince kids that we are “prooving” things we’ll promote the idea that science is absolute truth which – as any scientist should know – it most enphatically isn’t. Thanks for listening.

By: mooeypoo

mooeypoo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:04:20 +0000

@Silvio,

Okay, let’s back up here a moment.

You can, theoretically, use this principle to levitate living tissue. In fact, there are a few nice videos of some frog levitating on YouTube if you just look for it, it’s quite funny.

However – the magnitude of the force needed to oppose the force of gravity on a whole human being is just too big. Using static fields (like used in this experiment, magnetostatics) will not produce a high enough field to levitate a person without help. If that person stands on a metal plate, however, that might work, but it will work from the plate, and not from the actual water in the human body.

Also, levitation of the frog is not done by a *static* field, but by a changing field. For that matter, brushing your hair with the comb will not repel the frog; not by anything visible, at least.

About all the other ‘proton accelerator’ and Einstein theory, well, it has absolutely nothing to do with this experiment, at least not anything that I can see directly. I am not sure I know what you mean with “luna or sun energy”, either, specifically since the moon (luna) doesn’t quite emit energy. And neither of them has anything to do with levitation.

This experiment really is straight forward, there’s no need for extra “over-the-top” explanations. Electrostatic fields creating a repelling force. The water stream is thin enough to be affected.

By: Silvio

Silvio — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:28:05 +0000

@Silvio,
try it. if you can bend water through magnetic fields which alters their state to react like a opposing magnet- then science should be able to use those same factors to oppose the human water mass using a proton accelerator to create a magnetic field around a human host. This is where the beam of light luna or sun energy is manipulated into a magnet itself- which unlike the comb should attract. I think Einstein had a comment to which he pondered on- “what would it be like to ride a beam of light?”
need more detail? just post me.

By: Sylvio

Sylvio — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:05:45 +0000

@Silvio, Sorry this isn’t a direct answer but its really funny my nickname is Sylvio…. XD

I didn’t think anyone else ever heard of anything like it

By: S

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:04:25 +0000

Hi, very nice demonstration.

We did this in school although it probably was a failure because we only had too minutes.

Plus none of us were willing to brush our hair with the same comb everyone else used.

Oh well!

~S~

By: James

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By: Silvio

Silvio — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:30:30 +0000

Is the levitation of objects possible through proton electrons and photon energy possible?
if so, can you demonstrate an example??

By: Greg Cummings

Greg Cummings — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:10:58 +0000

Yeah loks good might try it myself