April 19, 2004

Go On Kids, Try This At Home!

It seems all you need in order to "levitate magnetically [any] material [or any] living creature on the earth" is a Bitter solenoid. (Check out the cool videos and simple explanation.)

Anyone have a spare, preferably large enough to fit a 6-foot-tall human being?

Update: Apparently, it would take around 19 gigawatts to create the magnetic force necessary to levitate a person. Doesn't quite seem worth it. Why, I could travel through time for only 1.21 gigawatts! Anyone have a spare flux capacitor?

Posted April 19, 2004 2:00 PM