can you make yourself or other objects float in mid air with out support such as magicians wire?
2007-06-28 08:11:33 · 9 answers · asked by Annie 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Not without killing yourself. If you weren't concerned about your health, I can think of ways to levitate by charging yourself up.
The hair dryer/ping pong ball method is cool. They have chambers to train skydyvers that work just like that. You jump out onto a cushion of air rushing up and can float around in that.
2007-06-28 08:15:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a principle called diamagnetism which can levitate just about anything if you have a strong enough magnetic field. It does not require that the object be ferromagnetic (the normal kind of magnetism you're used to) or made of metal.
Using very strong magnetic fields, scientists have levitated strawberries and small frogs. You'd need an even stronger field to levitate a human, but it is certainly possible.
2007-06-28 08:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not. Something has to support it somehow. Like somepeople say that a metal ring will float on it's own but there is most likely a magnet somewhere around where the ring was "floating". I also doubt that you would say an airplan can float. It has a motor that proppels it.
2007-06-28 08:20:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The other people are using air flow to help you float (e.g. sit in a helicopter) but I think you are thinking of something more exotic.
You can make things float using magnets and the new Neodymium super magnets you can buy allow you to do this quite cheaply.
You have to super cool things with liquid nitrogen!
Watch this Utube video clip !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8nCg0n0zXM&mode=related&search=
2007-06-28 08:22:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do a show with liquid nitrogen I show my kids and the neighbors. I levitate a magnet over a superconducting ceramic submerged in liquid nitrogen. the ceramic will levitate perfectly over the ceramic as long as it is moving, which it continues to do for the length of the show.
2007-06-28 08:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by billgoats79 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not without providing a force to counteract gravity to keep you suspended in the air.
2007-06-28 08:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can make a ping-pong ball levatate with a hair dryer.
2007-06-28 08:15:50 · answer #7 · answered by - 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can make you levitate with an airplane wing or a helicopter rotor.
2007-06-28 08:16:13 · answer #8 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Will I tell you how? No.
2007-06-28 08:15:37 · answer #9 · answered by magix151 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋