Levitation: How It Works

By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie



Levitating Car: This is a levitating car.
Picture Is From: www.complex.com

     Levitation is the stuff of science fiction. And scientists have been studying how to do it for a long time.  And I think that I found a way to turn levitation: science fiction, to levitation: science fact. If you want to know how levitation works, and know about a machine that can theoretically levitate, read this article about levitation.

    So what is levitation anyways? Well, anyone who watched a sci-fi movie knows that it is lifting an object without letting you, or a machine touch it, or putting engines of any form that propels the object into the air (in sci-fi movies, the levitating object usually has an aurora of light around it). So now we know what levitating is now. But how in the world can we achieve levitation?

    Levitation with magnets can possibly levitate if we first, put a north and north magnets, one above the other. But the problem is if the magnets are the same size. As most people know, when you try to put a circular magnet one above the other in the same fashion I have mentioned, they will fly off in different directions (usually the one in the middle of the air). This is because the upper magnet, in a certain degree, has to tilt. Then, there is more pushing force on one side, and the magnet tilts in the opposite direction, and gravity and the opposite magnet will free it of the opposite magnet’s grasp, then it will fall on the surface you used for your experiment. And even if the upper magnet didn’t tilt, it will still fall to the floor or table or chair, etc. That’s because the lower magnet has a degree of error, therefore, producing more push in one place than another, and you know what happens. It falls. But what happens if the upper magnet was smaller than the lower magnet?

Magnets: This is a animation of two magnets attracting each other.
Picture Is From:nylander.wordpress.com 

    You might think that if the upper magnet is smaller than the lower magnet, the magnet will levitate (at least, for a short period of time). Well, actually, you are right. It WILL levitate. But if we wanted to make, let’s say, a floating car, the exterior has to be made completely out of magnets (or at least enough magnet to levitate). That will provide cumbersome to that car (especially if the owner wants to park). And the earth will eventually run out of magnets to supply our need of cars. And there’s even worse. The lower magnet can’t be connected to the car, or else there is nothing to levitate the lower magnet and the car won’t levitate. So the car will have to drag the lower magnet. But there are technical problems, too. The dragging magnet will wear out, and then that will be a waste of magnet, and the car will crash. And if we use the road itself as the lower magnet, well, let’s just say that it will take a REALLY long time (and besides, I don’t think the earth has THAT much magnets). So we need another idea besides magnets as levitation.

    Actually, we can’t completely abandon the prospect of magnets as levitation, as my idea uses magnets as levitation. However, we have to switch to ionized atoms. And this article is getting too long, so I will tell you what my idea is. So here is my idea. Imagine that there are lights in the bottom of the car (not light bulbs, flat lights). Around those lights are magnets. When the light shoots photons, they turn into ionized photons. The light hits at a certain angle the road and bounces off into the magnet. The atom and magnet propel each other away, and the light bounces back and forth between the road and magnet. The light shoots a lot of ionized photons, so much that the car is affected by the amount of photons and levitates. The amount of light is made by an atomic generator (read my last article, Atomic Energy: How It Works). So this is my idea. But I have another one. The lights on the bottom of the car can ionize the ground. And then we can switch the magnets to the charge of the ionized ground (North, North, South, South). Then technically, we can levitate. With these two ideas, we can speed through the planet.*

*These two methods can’t actually work in space, because there is almost nothing to bounce off light for levitation. You can float in space anyways so you don’t actually need levitation. Just some engines.

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