Is static electricity strong enough to lift your whole body?

Question

If there is any scientific way to lift your whole body please tell me. Thankyou.

Answer 1

Static electricity is strong enough, but that amount of static electricity would likely kill you if it discharged suddenly out of your body, which would be highly likely. A better way would be to employ magnetism, which is generally regarded as safe. I heard about a scientific group that was able to levitate anything using magnetism induced into the atoms of the object. They even tried it on a frog, which they floated or levitated without any ill effects, according to the article. The amount of magnetism needed is enormous, and requires supercooled magnets for superconductivity, so the technology is not currently very practical. There are various groups around the world that are trying to perfect "high temperature superconductivity" and when and if this becomes a reality, then we all may see levitation become commonplace in our lives. The Germans are currently nearing completion of a high speed magnetically levitated train system in their country. When completed, the trains may be able to achieve speeds of around 500 miles per hour. They did a test run a few months ago but they forgot to remove a maintainance vehicle from the path of the train, and the resulting 200 mile per hour collision killed a few workers and set them back about 18 months on their completion date, I read. The Japanese have a similar train system in the final stages of planning and it is already funded, I heard. A similar system has been proposed to be built on the Moon, with the purpose being to accellerate to Lunar orbital speed and then actually leave the Moon in your train car! Eventually, everyone seems to think that we will drive around in magnetically levitated automobiles in about 50-100 years or so, and this is not at all impossible.
P.S. I also heard that the scientific group that levitated the frog was subsequently contacted by a preacher who wanted to use a similar system to impress his following by causing himself to rise up in thin air as he was getting to the best parts of his sermon! They told him what he wanted was not practical just yet, but wait about 50 years and who knows?

Answer 2

What? Rub your cat's fur to get a little static charge and then levitate? I don't think so.

Answer 3

yes depending upon the potential difference of your body and the floor where you step