Archive for August 17th, 2007
Levitation
The Telegraph recently carried a story about levitation and how it could be used to help nanotechnologists keep ”tiny objects from sticking to each other.” It can do this by reversing the Casimir force, which causes things to be drawn together in the first place. In theory, this could be used to levitate whole humans and, more […]
New picture of Jupiter
This is from from the Bad Astronomy Blog and was taken by the New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Jupiter is possibly my favorite planet. I was quite fond of Pluto too, but we know how that went…