I'm working on a project for my science class and does anyone have a method of achieving levitation for nearly 2 lbs, aside from magnets, I've been looking into acoustic levitation. Any ideas?
a leaf blower, anything that blows hard will do actually
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Anonymous2008-11-11 1:30
Is it possible for human beings to levitate? Throughout history there have been many anecdotal accounts of people levitating. Many religions have their traditional stories of levitation. Milarepa, the great thirteenth century yogi of Tibet, is said to have had the ability to levitate. The Ninja of Japan also reportedly were able to levitate. Some of the best records of levitations are among Christian documents which indicate that over 200 Catholic Saints have been credited with levitating.
One of the more remarkable and documented accounts of levitation is of St. Joseph of Cupertino born in 1603 in Apulia, Italy. He was born in a stable, was not well educated, but yet was considered to be very wise. He fasted for 40 days 7 times a year and was able to communicate with animals. He is said to have achieved his ability to levitate after over two decades of intense spiritual practice. He levitated before hundreds of witnesses including one incident when he levitated several feet above the ground in front of Pope Urban VIII. He also levitated before two cardinals. At another time, during Mass, he floated through the air over the altar. He is also reported to have levitated to the topmost spires of St. Peter’s Cathedral. His over one hundred recorded levitations earned him the nickname, the Flying Friar. His longest period of levitation was two hours. He died September 18, 1663 from a severe fever. He was canonized July 16,1767 by Pope Clement XIII. The Church considered his ability to levitate to have been the work of God. A biography of this great saint was written in 1753, at the time of his beatification. It is based on the Acta Sanctorum and the official documentation from the process that obtained his beatification on Februray 24, 1753 by Pope Benedict XIV. The book, St. Joseph of Cupertino, may be ordered at Christ the King Traditional Catholic Books & Gifts.
Other saints who have been reported to levitate were St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the cross; they levitated together up to the ceiling of St. Peter’s Cathedral. St. Teresa stated that she levitated involuntarily during moments of rapture. Sister Anne was an eyewitness to one of St. Teresa’s levitations. In response to an inquiry thirty years later she made a sworn deposition to verify her witness of St. Teresa’s levitation. Other documented Christian levitating saints include: St. Edmund, then Archbishop of Canterbury circa 1242; Sister Mary, an Arabian Carmelite nun in Bethlehem circa 1700; St. Adolphus Liguori in Foggia during 1777; and Father Suarez at Santa Cruz in Southern Argentina in 1911.
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Quantum mechanics, an aspect of modern physics, identifies a field of life called the unified field, or ground state, which is the fundamental nonchanging field of life.
Phail. What Planck said 100 yrs ago does not define what QM (or its derivative, RQFT) is right now.
For more information please see The Transcendental Meditation Program.
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Anonymous2008-11-12 13:13
How do you refute the eyewitness testimony of levitating Catholic Saints?