Tuesday 10 January 2012

Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track

All this quantum levitation stuff has got me psyched. Here it is applied to a real Wipe'out track. The actual science is called the Casimir Effect, where two uncharged metallic plates are placed in a vacuum, without any external electromagnetic field. This lack of an external field also means that there is no field between the plates, and no force can be measured between them.