| 单词 | levitation |
| 例句 | “It’s all about gravity,” I say, because I figure a levitation trick would definitely have something to do with gravity. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The system worked with the same magnetic levitation technology used in Germany and Japan to propel bullet trains with magnets instead of wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The Christian churches could not abandon their belief in miracles and angels, but Christians could certainly retreat from their insistence on the reality of witchcraft, demonic possession, poltergeists, levitation and second sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Pirates and Small World were converted to magnetic levitation, and they opened up Grand Canyon Land in the dry moat around Tom Sawyer’s Island. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Just for instance, her aunt Beppy—the one they say had the power of levitation—died with typhoid fever. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Father Nicanor tried to impress the military authorities with the miracle of levitation and had his head split open by the butt of a soldier’s rifle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “It’s more like a warehouse. In the garage. That’s where the new levitation trick is.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “It’s a new trick I’m working up. All about levitation. My parents bought me a chair suspension kit. You want to come see it?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z For the next two years or so Mompesson’s house was haunted by a poltergeist.2 There were drumming noises but also strange levitations of objects and alarming noises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Tally, hoverboards work on magnetic levitation, right? So there’s got to be some kind of metal around or they don’t hover.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Those who have been stung by a Billywig suffer giddiness followed by levitation. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On great days, that investment results in something like levitation. Perspective | As theaters reopen, a crucial cinematic ingredient is back: The audience 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z A new elevator system uses electric linear induction motors — the same kind of contactless energy transfer that powers magnetic levitation trains — instead of cables to move elevator cars around. Reengineering elevators could transform 21st-century cities 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z I would be pleased if readers considered Annie’s levitation merely a literary sleight of hand, a sort of late-stage magic realism. John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z A new system invented and being tested by German elevator producer ThyssenKrupp would get rid of cables altogether and build elevators more like magnetic levitation trains, which are common in Japan and China. Reengineering elevators could transform 21st-century cities 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The building, a modern structure which preserves its original pillared façade, was smaller than she expected, a plus for the levitation attempt. Taking on the B?rse, Abbie Hoffman-Style 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z Or they might consider her levitation the result of religious hysteria. John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z When my father died, I certainly felt a sense of almost levitation. ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z Those Bauhaus facades are a mere backdrop for a dazzling display of human bodily levitation, contortion and gyration. | A Goofy Display of Acrobatics, Juggling and Hula Hooping 2013-12-19T22:50:28Z Ms. Lundgren, 45, is drawing her inspiration from another famous attempted levitation. Taking on the B?rse, Abbie Hoffman-Style 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z “Perhaps the age of miracles has returned?” thinks yet another priest, witnessing the sudden levitation of an especially annoying congregant. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z And his ideas about immateriality and lightness and levitation come from that. Dancer/choreographer Catherine Cabeen jumps 'Into the Void' 2011-04-25T23:32:44Z The 29-year-old said her five-minute live rendition of her songs "Roman's Revenge" and "Roman Holiday," which included dancing priests, an exorcism and levitation, was just a part of a movie she's writing. Minaj said Grammy performance is part of her movie 2012-02-16T06:22:08Z A graph tracks “accumulated levitation units” alongside the German blue-chip DAX Index. Taking on the B?rse, Abbie Hoffman-Style 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z Koppe, on the floor, poses languidly, arching off the ground in suggestions of levitation, tilting her head way back. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Her figures, which are nearly life-size or bigger, are usually seen in midair — where the gods mostly dwell — and their levitation itself is exciting, often tinged with lust. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Her fascination with UFO encounters, with the presence of ghosts on the TV screen, with the voices of the dead in the radio ether, with levitations, automatic writing and other phenomena is more than academic. Susan Hiller: Voices from the sky 2011-01-31T21:30:01Z All the more remarkable, then, that Mr. Margulies’s performance, in a play that is heavy with cuteness, feels like pure levitation. Theater Review: ‘The Hatmaker’s Wife,’ a Comedy by Lauren Yee 2013-09-06T21:03:59Z As the show’s subtitle suggests, evoking lightness and levitation was clearly a goal; some paintings here seem ready for takeoff. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z As it happens, Olivia’s father is a dedicated Buddhist and devotee of the Center who believes it is one of the only places in the United States where meditation-induced levitation is possible. Review | In Emily Temple’s ‘The Lightness,’ troubled teens fall hard for the promise of spirituality 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z To signal each revelation, actors spring into position, through movement and posture conjuring up the door hinges, the sailors’ activities, the cat’s levitation. ‘Peter Pan’ prequel a gravity-defying delight to the senses 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z That levitation scene — inspired by the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who used it in films such as “The Mirror” and “The Sacrifice” — is a metaphor for the journey that “First Reformed” takes you on. Paul Schrader, the writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ shifts gears with ‘First Reformed’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Indigenous to New Orleans, beignets are of the same genus as doughnuts but a separate species: pieces of puffed-up fried dough with an airiness somewhere between buoyancy and levitation. At Cafe Booqoo, New Orleans Favorites, Spicy and Sweet 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Above all, she does not want to be stuck with a lesser levitation. John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z It hasn’t lost the levitation game “light as a feather,” the ominous snakes or the famous line; “We’re the weirdos, mister,” though it’s recontextualized for a climactic moment. ‘The Craft: Legacy’ Review: More Dull Carbon Copy Than Cult Classic 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Here, a malfunctioning levitation routine is just glossed over. Penn and Teller 2010-07-16T21:15:00Z Now — confident in her powers of levitation — she’s traveling to visit friends for the holidays and spend time with them. 9 Months. 100 People. Inside the Making of a Holiday Window 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Originally invented for human levitation by the Serpintain Brothers," he writes, "the 'Osti-glider' was converted to an ostrich transporter when the brothers were unable to get a qualified human pilot. Artist Tyson Grumm creates a surreal menagerie in latest exhibit 2012-05-23T21:02:04Z And the levity is especially obvious once you realize that elegance, levitation and tenuous balance are in themselves funny. Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z The exhibition sheds new light on his complex sensibility while also showing him pursuing some of his characteristic interests — like levitation — in an unlikely material. Art Review: ‘Calder: The Complete Bronzes’ at L&M Arts 2012-11-08T22:38:37Z It is hard to imagine cream of mushroom sharing the kitchen with Mr. Tsering’s mothuk or thenthuk, Tibetan soups of remarkable clarity and lightness, as if the goal were not depth but levitation. Tibetan Food Finds a New Home at Punda 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z At each it was pleasant to murmur “How did he do that?” about something as anodyne as a spectacular levitation. There’s Magic in the Air, if You Believe 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Additionally, observes Scientific American, superconductors repel magnetic fields, which could lead to more efficient magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains. Column: How a scientific 'breakthrough' fell apart amid allegations of plagiarism and fakery 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Nods to occurrence in the first movie include levitations, spontaneously appearing gashes and copious vomiting. Review: 'The Exorcist: Believer' is a scary, worthwhile sequel 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Some of the most exciting and promising clean tech — like magnetic levitation trains and other low-cost, high-speed transportation — could finally be viable for mass development with superconductor use. Energy breakthrough or resistance letdown? Here's what's so super about superconductors 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The levitation, the scientists said, demonstrated the Meissner effect, which ensures zero magnetic field inside a superconductor. LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z I found the embellishments that the directors devised — among them classic magic tricks with playing cards and levitation — leaven the play’s more plodding contrivances. Perspective | In this ‘Tempest,’ a misshapen, two-headed monster steals the show 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Other applications of magnetism include computer memory, levitation of high-speed trains, the aurora borealis, and, of course, the first important historical use of magnetism: navigation. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Their flowing fur, which rises to a crest at their tails and then cascades down, has a way of obscuring their legs, so they seem to be moving via levitation, rather than perambulation. Retired at 4, Wasabi still carries himself like a champion 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z The air reduces friction and allows the pods to travel, using magnetic levitation, at speeds as high as 670 miles per hour. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The levitation video is also not definitive, because non-superconducting materials including graphite can also partially float in the same way. LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z This building kind of floats above the ground and it celebrates the levitation of the building too. What prevents the Academy Museum from falling in a quake? The answer is hidden in plain view 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z We use magnetic levitation technology, so there is no grinding, and everything is contactless and smooth. All aboard the hyperloop: How your commute could be changing 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z The proposal for a superconducting magnetic levitation train system is in its last phase of a federal environmental review. Federal panel sows doubts about high-speed D.C.-to-Baltimore maglev train 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The pod is propelled by magnetic levitation — the same technology used for bullet trains. Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z It uses special pods to transport cargo and passengers through huge vacuum tubes, utilizing a magnetic levitation system. Editorial Roundup: West Virginia 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Animal scientists occasionally use techniques related to magic to investigate cognition, such as invisible string—used for levitation effects—or the shell game. Magic Is (Literally) for the Birds 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Scores of seances and private consultations were advertised in the spiritualist press, along with lectures at psychical research societies, books and pamphlets on the occult, displays of clairvoyance and levitation. The housewife, the ghost hunter and the poltergeist 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z It is these vibrational forces that lead to seemingly paradoxical phenomena, including the sinking of gas bubbles in vibrating liquids, and the levitation of fluid layers above air2,3. Vibration overcomes gravity on a levitating fluid 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z A proposal for a high-speed superconducting magnetic levitation train between Washington and Baltimore has met with opposition from the Linthicum-Shipley Improvement Association. Old homes and old friends in a historic Anne Arundel County neighborhood 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z He once hired a coach, Pepe Imaz, who probably taught him about telepathy and levitation, and whose techniques include extremely long hugs. No-vaxx Djokovic: why his spiritual world view can have a dangerous side 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The high-speed superconducting magnetic levitation system, many say, offers little benefit to communities in the D.C. area because it would stop only in Washington, Baltimore and at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport. Maryland towns ready to fight maglev project as federal review stalls 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z A medium could undertake extravagant feats of mobility – astral projection, transfiguration, time travel, levitation – and in doing so escape the constraints of her gender and her class. The housewife, the ghost hunter and the poltergeist 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Where was the Back to the Future levitation we’d been promised? The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The high-speed superconducting magnetic levitation system between Washington and Baltimore is planned with three stops: one in each city and at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport. Federal review of Baltimore-Washington high-speed maglev project ‘paused’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But it is Naz’s levitation, not lineage, that will keep eyes fixated on him throughout the season. Matt Calkins column on UW men’s basketball player Nahziah Carter 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Still, he is hopeful that work bringing together different and more-practical technologies, including acoustic levitation, will help volumetric display to find its killer app. Star Wars-style 3D images created from single speck of foam 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Magnetic levitations or maglev trains float a few millimeters above the rails using repulsive magnetic force. Separate and unequal train service returns 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “She wanted me to be an air hostess. High heels and levitation.” Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Authorities in Shanghai also shut down the high-speed magnetic levitation train to Pudong International Airport. Typhoon Lekima strikes China’s east coast, kills at least 18 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “Women, cars — you name it and I’ve floated it,” he told The Washington Post in 1991, describing his powers of levitation. Bob Dorian, actor and magician who introduced classic films on AMC, dies at 85 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z I don’t mind the notch, which is as tiny as you can make it, with Huawei even ditching the earpiece for a magnetic levitation approach that vibrates the screen to generate sound. Huawei P30 Pro review: zooming into the future 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z On the opposite side of the house, large, cantilevered terraces overlook the Pacific and exemplify levitation while an extended roofline recalls the wings of a bird. How to blend the outdoors and indoors, in ways that'll wow your guests 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z The top hope now is a miniaturized device being studied at the Texas Heart Institute - the BiVACOR - that uses magnetic levitation technology to circulate blood around the body. Texas: 50 years since first artificial heart implant surgery 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z It has also removed the phone’s earpiece speaker, replacing it with what the company calls “electromagnetic levitation”, which vibrates the screen itself, turning it into a speaker. Huawei P30 Pro’s 5x optical zoom steps up phone camera wars 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Huawei is omitting an earpiece on the P30 Pro, making innovative use of electromagnetic levitation to vibrate the top of the screen to generate call sound. Huawei’s P30 Pro is a photographic powerhouse with a tiny notch 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z It works by propelling pods using magnetic levitation through a low-pressure, near-vacuum tube. A Real Tube Carrying Dreams of 600-M.P.H. Transit 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Instead of transporting people or goods through a vacuum-sealed tunnel, Arrivo was developing something that more closely resembles high-speed magnetic levitation technology. Hyperloop startup Arrivo is shutting down as workers are laid off 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The hundred million web pages devoted to ghosts and auras were not a surprise, but I didn’t expect to find ten million on levitation and a similar number touting a flat Earth. Alarmed by fake news? Fake science is just as serious of a problem 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The 40-mile “superconducting magnetic levitation train system,” commonly called a maglev, is planned as the first leg of a system that would carry passengers from Washington to New York in an hour. D.C.’s Mount Vernon Square eyed for high-speed maglev train station 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z The strategic framework agreement aims to combine two technologies – magnetic levitation to eliminate ground friction, and vacuum tubes to reduce air resistance – to achieve a “hypersonic” mode of transportation, Geely said in a statement. Geely, China aerospace firm agree to work on supersonic trains 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Still, he is pleased to have been chosen as a witness to the levitation of this annoying woman. “The Rise and Rise of Annie Clark” 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z MIT, which offered Scientific American a behind-the-scenes look at the making of its pod, opted for magnetic levitation for a number of reasons. First SpaceX Hyperloop Transit Pod Contender Unveiled [Video] 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Maglev, or “magnetic levitation,” is a system that harnesses powerful magnetic forces that lift and propel trains four inches above a U-shaped guideway. The high-speed ‘maglev’ promises many things, but at what cost? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z A fews days later, Minaj explained her vibe that night, topped off with a performance that involved dancing priests, an exorcism and levitation. A look back at Grammy fashion through the decades 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z According to Virgin Hyperloop One: All components of the system were successfully tested including the airlock, highly efficient electric motor, advanced controls and power electronics, custom magnetic levitation and guidance, pod suspension, and the vacuum. The hyperloop has a new world speed record: 240 mph 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z We’re now part of the enduring West Coast levitation seen from San Diego to San Francisco, lately in Portland, seemingly forever in Vancouver, B.C. Signs hint at slowdown in region’s economy 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Maglev transport systems using magnetic levitation have long been used in Japan, South Korea and China. Is Richard Branson’s high-speed train in a pneumatic tube pie in the sky? 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z The system uses magnetic levitation and electric propulsion to cause pods to glide, and is pitched as a more eco-friendly mode of transportation than many of today's alternatives. Branson's Virgin invests in Hyperloop One 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Hyperloop One is trying to identify the best routes for the transportation system, which would use pods lifted above a track by magnetic levitation. Colorado’s pitch to build Hyperloop would cost $24B 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Hyperloop One is trying to identify the best routes for its new transportation system, which would use pods lifted above a track by magnetic levitation. Colorado’s pitch to build Hyperloop would cost $24B 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Evans was unable to attend Thursday’s board meeting because he joined a regional delegation in Japan to explore the feasibility of a high-speed magnetic levitation passenger train from the District to New York City. Metro board chairman splits with Wiedefeld, says $15.5 billion request is too conservative 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z And yet, as if by a miracle of levitation, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index is still about a fifth above its level on the day of the election. Opinion | Who’s looking great again? It’s not America. 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The company is trying to identify the best routes for its new transportation system, which would use pods lifted above a track by magnetic levitation. Colorado among 10 worldwide finalists for Hyperloop system 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z So, vacuum, propulsion system, control system, levitation, into basically an integrated hyperloop. Talking to Hyperloop One about its big ‘Kitty Hawk’ moment — and what comes next 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z In the test, the company’s hyperloop vehicle — which uses magnetic levitation, or mag-lev, technology — pulled 2 Gs while reaching 70 miles per hour down the length of the company’s test track in Nevada. Hyperloop One had its first full-system test of ultrafast transportation system 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z It is performance art, and watching Durant and Steph Curry together occasionally moves the viewer to a place near levitation. Perspective | The Warriors are making the NBA Finals noncompetitive. That’s scary for the league. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z “Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.” So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s the levitation spell, which would probably help a lot of us with our wedge game. Michelle Wie's new Harry Potter wedges are amazing - Golf Digest 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Instead of wheels, it has levitation and guidance. Talking to Hyperloop One about its big ‘Kitty Hawk’ moment — and what comes next 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s a great time to be a levitation enthusiast. Can anyone explain these orbs to me? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It will allocate money to social programs and infrastructure, including the construction of a high-speed train that will use magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology to float above its tracks. Japan Announces More Stimulus Measures as Economy Struggles 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The subject might also exhibit enormous strength or even the extraordinarily rare phenomenon of levitation. As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic possession. 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The University of Cincinnati's team say they will achieve magnetic levitation using the Arx Pax hover engines. Here are the Hyperloop pods competing in Elon Musk's big race later this year 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z While the Swiss sweat over every centime, and the Germans recently cancelled their plans for a high-speed magnetic levitation train in Munich, the Spanish have embraced mass transit with a kind of crazed exuberance. The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z To drive down costs, the company is breaking down its design into different parts such as levitation, propulsion and tube design, and then learning to build each with less expensive materials. Hyperloop One Accelerates Towards Future With High-Speed Test 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Passive magnetic levitation, which was developed by the late physicist Richard Post in 2000, uses unpowered loops of wire in the track and permanent magnets in the train pod to create levitation. Hyperloop Transportation says it will use a ‘cheaper, safer’ form of magnetic levitation 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Some teams presented full pod designs; others presented just subsystems for propulsion, air levitation, or braking. How to build a Hyperloop 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Mercury Three team says it will use magnetic levitation to maintain a gap height above a fixed rail, allowing for extremely low friction and comfortable transport. Here are the Hyperloop pods competing in Elon Musk's big race later this year 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z All three are in the early stages of building tracks on which to test the propulsion and levitation technology that undergird the Hyperloop. US Transportation Secretary says Elon Musk's Hyperloop could be the next ‘moonshot' 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Hyperloop Technologies is still considering that method, but both companies now lean toward using an existing technology to lift the capsules inside the tube: magnetic levitation, or maglev. Hyperloop Race Picks Up Speed 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Some of these new trains, he said, used magnetic levitation, maglev, and actually floated above the tracks as they hurtled across the land. An Idea by Moynihan Rises Like a Phoenix: Relocating Pennsylvania Station 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The scientists recorded another type of levitation as well. Water’s Big (and Then Bigger) Bounce 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Encased in luxury, I was somewhere between decadence and levitation. Porcelain ceramic tile is making a comeback, and it’s big 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z However, instead of audible sound, sonic levitation utilizes higher ultrasonic frequencies that are beyond the range of human hearing. Researchers create a sonic tractor beam 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z What about German elevator company Thyssen Krupp, which reinvented the category with magnetic levitation technology? OracleVoice: The Tech-Centric Revolution Is Here 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z A bit detached from the nitty-gritty of the subways, Mr. Moynihan wondered if it wouldn’t be a good idea for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to study magnetic levitation. An Idea by Moynihan Rises Like a Phoenix: Relocating Pennsylvania Station 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Mojang showed a demo of a player leaping upwards - using another new feature, a levitation effect - and fending off a battery of projectiles.” Minecon 2015: day two of the annual Minecraft conference - live 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Another common approach to levitation involves filling an object with iron oxide particles. Sorting cells through levitation 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z In the new study, reported online today in Nature Communications, physicists achieve levitation using just one block of speakers on one side. Researchers create a sonic tractor beam 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The company invoked the science of magnetic levitation and superconducting magnets, but left it at that. This is the skatepark Lexus built for its real hoverboard 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The Slide site says the board creates "frictionless movement" using magnetic levitation. Lexus says it's made a hoverboard 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Mojang showed a demo of a player leaping upwards - using another new feature, a levitation effect - and fending off a battery of projectiles.” Minecon 2015: day two of the annual Minecraft conference - live 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The governor is fresh off a 12-day trade mission in Asia, where he lauded the benefits of Japan’s high-speed magnetic levitation trains. Even governors get summoned for jury duty 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “My main target for the future is in vivo levitation,” Marzo says. Researchers create a sonic tractor beam 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Hogan wants Maryland to get these “maglev” trains — short for magnetic levitation — and Japan wants to sell them. A train trip from Baltimore to D.C. in under 15 minutes? It’ll cost $10 billion. 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Magnetic levitation, and more specifically the levitation of superconducting magnets are real technologies. Lexus says it's made a hoverboard 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z In countries like China and Japan, MagLev trains — or trains that work off of the principle of magnetic levitation — are all the rage. The Voyage No One Wants To Take: Why The Hyperloop Is A Catastrophe-Waiting-To-Happen 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z One approach that several elevator companies have pursued over the years is the development of cable-free cars that use electromagnetic levitation to move in any direction. Fastest Elevators in the West Climb Tallest Skyscraper in the West 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z He greeted us as though he’d just been tugged gently back to earth from a low-grade levitation session. ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Maglev trains, short for “magnetic levitation,” hover just above the rails through the use of electric magnets. Japanese Train Breaks World Speed Record 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z However, unlike regular shinkansen or "bullet trains" that run on steel rails, magnetic levitation trains hover above rails, suspended by powerful magnets. Japan's maglev train breaks own speed record at 603 kph 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr Cooper suggests "magnetic levitation lifts" may offer one solution. How to build world's tallest lift 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z There’s more than a few floating speakers, which use magnetic levitation to spin a few centimeters off your desk. CES 2015: TVs, Smartwatches, Self-Driving Cars and Weird Tech 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The levitation effect is created by strong magnets hidden inside the two pieces. This crazy levitating Bluetooth speaker has a far better use 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z It uses magnetic levitation - creating a magnetic field underneath the board which is repelled by a non-ferrous surface like iron underneath - allowing the board to levitate. Testing out a hoverboard 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The system operates without cables and uses magnetic levitation technology similar to that used on some train networks. The lift that goes sideways 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z He saw the frog levitation as an integral part of his style, an acceptance of lateral thinking that could lead to important discoveries. Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Canada-based General Fusion uses liquid lead in its experiments; at MIT the preference is for levitation. 'Skunk power' fires fusion confusion 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z In California, the company Arx Pax has built a hoverboard to prove that its levitation technology really works — and it's putting the tech up on Kickstarter so that it can accomplish some amazing new things. Everything to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The train, which uses a technology called magnetic levitation, or maglev, to float above the track on magnets instead of wheels, would travel at twice the speed of Amtrak’s Acela. Backers of a Maglev Train Hope to Outpace Acela in the Northeast Corridor 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Bob Gale, who wrote the “Back to the Future” trilogy, said that, in his imagination anyway, the hoverboard floats on a magnetic field similar to magnetic levitation trains. Hoverboard? Still in the Future 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “Masters of Illusion — Believe the Impossible” The live show based on the TV series features levitation, vanishing acts, escapes, comedy magic, sleight of hand and dancers. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Oct. 16-22, 2014. Magnetic levitation is commonly referred to as MagLev. Magnetic levitation in 3D advances 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z SkyTran uses magnetic levitation technology to transport lightweight, egg-shaped cars hovering underneath a rail constructed above city streets. Jetsons’ era: Levitating pods are on course for mass-transportation systems 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The levitation stunt raised £3,000 and was designed by Mr Kettell himself using sensors and magnets, but he does not want to give away much more than that. Extreme fundraising: Is it worth it? 2014-05-09T04:37:40Z His magnetic levitation train, theoretically capable of going from Los Angeles to San Francisco in an hour, had run into a political tsunami, and was all but dead in its tracks. Winner of The Quantum Shorts 2013: The Knight of Infinity 2014-01-29T00:18:21Z A Scottish example of the traditional post-exam levitation photograph The exam results season has its own rituals and its own language. The unofficial exam season phrase book 2013-08-22T00:10:16Z Goddard reckoned his design—which also proposed magnetic levitation instead of wheels—was good for about 1,600kph. The future of transport: No loopy idea 2013-08-15T15:00:16Z Jim Powell, a co-inventor of the bullet train and director of Maglev 2000, which develops high-speed transport systems using magnetic levitation, said the system would be highly vulnerable to a terrorist attack or accident. California billionaire unveils futuristic 'Hyperloop' transport 2013-08-13T02:08:01Z Physicist Rick Weber of Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago commended the authors for developing “a highly innovative approach” that furthers the capabilities of acoustic levitation. went viral late last year. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-16T02:25:00Z Typically, levitation techniques make use of electromagnetism; magnetic forces have even been used to levitate frogs. Sound Waves Levitate and Move Objects 2013-07-16T01:02:15.577Z Their levitation device looks something like a chessboard, with each penny-sized square emitting its own sound. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-15T19:00:39Z Locals relax under a billboard featuring a magnetic levitation train in Shanghai. The lessons I learned from my week with Japan's power-brokers 2013-02-10T00:07:01Z In 2008, hundreds of people in China's financial hub Shanghai marched against the extension of the city's magnetic levitation train, or "maglev", worried it would emit radiation and sicken them. Rare Beijing protest takes aim at high speed rail project 2012-12-09T09:17:03Z Poulikakos’s advance over motionless levitation will probably be useful to the pharmaceutical industry, allowing scientists to mix solutions in midair without the potential for contamination from a container, Weber said. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-16T02:25:00Z The device that achieves this acoustic levitation is the first to be capable of handling several objects simultaneously. Sound Waves Levitate and Move Objects 2013-07-16T01:02:15.577Z Physicist Rick Weber of Argonne National Laboratory commended the authors for developing “a highly innovative approach” that furthers the capabilities of acoustic levitation. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-15T19:00:39Z The imaginary car stays aloft with the aid of magnetic levitation, much the way some maglev trains travel along special rails using electromagnetic suspension. Imagination + a Little Movie Magic = a Volkswagen Hover Car Silently Navigating City Streets [Video] 2012-06-21T12:45:00.227Z A notable levitation is produced, nearly under the same conditions. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Their levitation device looks something like a chessboard, with each penny-size square emitting its own sound. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-16T02:25:00Z They "mediums" raise by "levitation," And subject them to elongation, And in and out of windows float them, Two stories high, lords vow, we quote them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 2011-10-18T02:00:20.750Z Poulikakos compares the previous state of acoustic levitation — without the airborne motion control — to a luxury car kept permanently in park. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-15T19:00:39Z He can make them execute feats of levitation, achievable only by the most marvelously gifted and by the most arduously trained of human dancers. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z There is no doubt whatever about this levitation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z From the "Fantasies," we read of the Mystery of Crowds, and the horrors of Gothic Architecture, the joys of levitation while one is asleep—with a moral attached; of Noctiluc�. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Table rapping, levitation, "apports," may all be genuine enough and accounted for in a manner which, if not wholly satisfying, is at least not unreasonable. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Poulikakos’s advance over motionless levitation is likely to be useful to the pharmaceutical industry, allowing scientists to mix solutions in midair without the potential for contamination from a container, Weber said. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-15T19:00:39Z But this explanation is not simple enough for Philostratus, and so he presses into 87service all the memories of Damis, or rather travellers’ tales, about levitation, magical illusions and the rest. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z X., when she saw this device, made me think at once that no levitation was going to take place. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z In the last decade, he was trying to bring high-speed, magnetic levitation trains, of the sort now operating in Shanghai, to Florida. Eugene Garfield, Founder of the Auto-Train Service, Dies at 74 2010-12-30T02:02:18Z Moses' own account of the levitation is much fuller. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z For now, scientists are able to use acoustic levitation to move only small, lightweight objects. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-15T19:00:39Z Cocktail waitresses will dance and one of the four performers behind the bar will be a magician-slash-bartender known for his card tricks, his cup-and-ball misdirections using cocktail shakers and his eerie levitation of lighted cigarettes. Holiday Drinks Issue: The Bartender Played With Fire 2010-12-01T05:30:00Z I ardently desired the contrary, and we willed the levitation with all our might. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Maglev, short for “magnetic levitation,” uses powerful magnets that allow the train to float just above the track, reducing friction. Japan Starts to Shop Its Bullet Train Technology 2010-05-12T01:13:00Z Dr Speer also records a "levitation" on 3rd December: "Mr M. was floated about, and a large dining-room chair was placed on the table." Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z He claimed to have seen acts of levitation, an accordion playing by itself and strange phantom figures, some of which he photographed. Surprising science 2010-04-27T09:55:00Z In 2008, Shanghai residents staged a series of protests against plans to extend the city's magnetic levitation, or maglev, train system, fearing it would harm property values — and possibly their health. Why Shanghai is Back on Top of the World 2010-04-24T20:35:00Z After we had placed on the table two buckets, one upon the other, both weighing in all 143 pounds, it was discovered that we were unable to produce the levitation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z When a play tries to imagine itself as a film, the results are often disappointing, as in The Phantom of the Opera's slowly descending chandelier or Mary Poppins's erratic levitation. Theatre: bring back the trapdoor drop | Alexis Soloski 2010-04-01T11:05:00Z Nagrath's strategy for growing cells isn't the only approach being pursued, even at Rice: Another method reported last week in Nature Nanotechnology uses magnetic levitation to grow three-dimensional cell cultures. Your Fat May Help You Heal 2010-03-29T16:37:00Z Thus there is no such principle as levitation in the universe. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy A dense clay, the best soil for preventing the levitation of gas, is the worst for the process of decomposition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" This levitation without contact was produced about thirty times. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z For a second, the heat-rays and levitations entered his head—but none of the symbols fitted such a branch of physical development. Pursuit This paper makes no reference to the above case of levitation. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research We may call this a principle of levitation, as opposed to gravitation. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy When Snarley Bob met Shepherd Toller at Valley Head, he found him accoutred in a manner which verified his private theory as to the levitation of the kettle. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies The mischief went so far that the table not only refused us levitations and rotations without contact, but almost all the ordinary ones. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Changing the mind of a man indeed seems a small thing in comparison to teleportation, or psychokinesis, or levitation or any such witchery. Occasion for Disaster Levitation.—The wonderful phenomenon of levitation must be included in the category of "movements without contact"! Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research She floated gently in the breeze, her dainty figure held aloft by a mere hint of levitation. Lonesome Hearts For bonus points, track down the album "Tenderness Junction" by the Fugs, which includes the audio of Allan Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman's levitation ceremony at the Pentagon. Little Brother I need not say that our proved levitations of weights, and our movements without contact, will not henceforth permit anyone to take refuge in such an explanation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z The testimony of such a man as Professor Crookes who had witnessed feats of human levitation greatly stirred him; but in the end he drifted back to his early passions—music and mathematics. Melomaniacs My first personal experience of levitation was about five months after my introduction to spiritualism. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research As you human beings are doubtless aware, space levitation is quite complicated, but not beyond accomplishment. Lonesome Hearts The trick was to come up with something with the media friendliness of the levitation of the Pentagon. Little Brother The force necessary to lift the top is then 8 1-5 pounds, and the counterpoise has been relieved of 24 pounds; yet the levitation is easily accomplished. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z He surmised that some anti-gravitational agency was responsible for the levitation of the Vandercook building, but what sort of intelligence was directing it? Lords of the Stratosphere But he discouraged these phenomena of levitation as much as possible, from a dislike to violent physical manifestations. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research Besides, levitation is much more difficult on the earth than on the moon. Lonesome Hearts From Icarus on down, levitation or its equivalent has been a favorite. Disowned Levitations.—One day we improvised an experiment in the afternoon, and I remember that I observed a very interesting levitation made under these circumstances. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z In the matter of the levitations and elongations, however, it is not so easy to raise the cry of sheer fraud. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters There were peculiarities special to each, but untouched movements of heavy articles, "levitations," lights, and sounds, were phenomena common to both. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research Other phenomena occurred, but the chief incident was the levitation. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 And yet, even the Theosophical Society, with all its absurdities of levitation and the astral body, has been compelled to bear some witness to Jesus Christ. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions The balancings prepare for the rising and the latter for complete levitation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Then cropped up 'levitations' and 'elongations' of the person, and Mr. Home delighted to put red-hot coals on the heads of his friends. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis If he saw, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that levitation and teleportation were possible, he would have accepted his own senses as usable data on definite phenomena. What The Left Hand Was Doing That is if we assume that the process is at all parallel with the phenomena of psychokinesis and levitation. Out Like a Light Would you not think, for example, that levitation, or the flight of bodies in the air, which seems to constitute the highest state of rapture, is one of the rarest? En Route The complete lifting up, or levitation of the table. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z At the top level, a first-class adept could utilize that Power for telepathy, psychokinesis, levitation, teleportation, and other powers that the commander only vaguely understood. Despoilers of the Golden Empire Miss Johnson's discussion of Home's famous levitation out of one window and in at another is surely masterly, and is precisely the kind of criticism which psychic research needs. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal It was the Anglo-Saxon, with a goodly cross of the Norse, that gave them this disdain of danger, and made levitation in their natures the supreme thing—not gravitation. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen There was a scientific investigation—some professors put Jannie on a weighing-machine during a séance and found that, in a levitation, she had an increase in weight virtually equal to the lifted table. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Besides the levitation of the table, we several times, and almost in full light, saw a hand appear. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z When you have actually accomplished test No. 4, you see yourself accomplishing the "hand levitation" test—No. 5. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis In Home's case, then, the evidence for his levitation phenomena rests, not on any one case taken by itself, but on the mass of cumulative testimony offered by scores of witnesses. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal One levitation lasted long enough to count fifty. The Shadow World He threw the robe back, checked his equipment belt, adjusted his body shield, and stepped off the balcony, activating his levitation modulator. The Players They came, and on Sunday, October 8, we obtained some remarkable levitations. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Once this test is accomplished, you use the visual-imagery technique to see yourself accomplishing the hand levitation test—No. 5. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis Changing the mind of a man seems a small thing in comparison to teleportation, or psychokinesis, or levitation. Supermind Man has levitation as well as gravitation, and the expansion and elevation of the chest lie at the basis of all good position in standing, sitting and also walking. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions While history as a whole, from the Cro-Magnon man to the twentieth century, does certainly suggest a great ascent, it has not been an automatic levitation. Christianity and Progress The levitation took place even when a very heavy man was seated on the table. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z You are now ready for the hand levitation test—No. 5. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis They contain an account of two apparitions on the part of the demon Asmodeus, accompanied by phenomena of levitation and fortified by arguments against the theory of hallucination. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer When a person stands in an accordant poise the walk is a progression forward and a levitation upward rhythmically and freely, the spiral lines alternating with every step. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions An occurrence which occasionally takes place at séances, and more frequently among eastern Yógîs, is what is called levitation—that is, the floating of Levitation.a human body in the air. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena Rotations and levitations were obtained without the contact of hands. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Notice this also: when levitation accompanies the flight, it is on one side only that you make an effort to fly. Dreams That, Miss Huysman," he replied with perfect gravity, "was only a demonstration of what Spiritualists and Theosophists are accustomed to call levitation. The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension He is the one animal that has levitation, as will be shown later. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions Carry the crown of your head high, hold your chin in, and fill the top of your lungs by cultivating levitation. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists They have remarked that the force of the levitations is not diminished when the sitters are removed from the side of the table that is to form the fulcrum. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Raps, table tiltings, movements of articles of furniture, playing upon musical instruments, slate writing, automatic writing, of late the Ouija Board, materialization, levitation, apparent elongation of the medium's body, are all associated with Spiritism. Modern Religious Cults and Movements Boiling in my spirit's veins With fierce indignation, From my bitterness of soul Springs self-revelation: Framed am I of flimsy stuff, Fit for levitation, Like a thin leaf which the wind Scatters from its station. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse In going upward, be sure that the chest reaches upward and that the body is lifted by a species of levitation. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions The gods cultivate levitation, which is a different thing from levity, meaning skyey gravitation, uplift, aspiration expressed in bodily attitude. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists We expected to encounter still greater obstacles when we should undertake levitation without contact. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z His specialties were the introduction of a great variety of articles—apports as they are called—at his sittings, levitation, table-tipping and automatic writing and the direct voice. Modern Religious Cults and Movements Strange rumours of human levitations, of flying machines seen after dark at unearthly heights, were printed. Visionaries Those interested in psychical research will detect hypnotic trance, levitation, and so forth. Anthropology When levitation lets go, gravity doubles its grip. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists During one of the levitations the experimenters did not touch the table at all, but formed the chain above it and in the air; and Eusapia acted in the same way. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Their dates range from the ninth to the seventeenth century, and their histories go to prove that levitation runs in families. Lost Leaders They cannot all be made to see any such contrast between the levitation that is now discussed as a possibility and the ascension which is still derided as a miracle. The New Jerusalem Scarcely conscious of the occult power of levitation that He was using to overcome the power of gravitation, He moved rapidly toward His followers. Mystic Christianity The lowest savages have their séances, levitations, bindings of the medium, trance-speakers; Peruvians, Indians, have their objects moved without contact. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The simple fact, for example, of the levitation of a table to a height of six and one-half, eight, sixteen inches from the floor is not banal at all. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z “What is the scientific inference from the various accounts, modern and traditional, of human levitation?” is the difficulty before the world at this present moment. Lost Leaders This astral-body extension produces spirit raps on tables; table-tilting and movement; levitation, or the lifting of solid objects in the air; playing upon musical instruments such as the guitar, accordian, etc. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers In the good old times it did not need the genius of a Maskelyne to do a "levitation" trick. The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation Here, as in the business of levitation, the interest of the anthropologist and mythologist lies in the uniformity and identity of narratives from all countries, climates, and ages. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Several times during the course of this séance, and during the levitation of the table, I said, "There is no spirit." Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Here is a case of levitation—of double levitation, and we leave it to be explained by the followers of Abaris and of Mr. Home. p. Lost Leaders According to Cayce and legend, Atlantis was an ancient ante-deluvian civilization that developed a fabulous technology which achieved air flight, levitation, advanced medical techniques and harnessed the sun's energy. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel I lay in my customary glider position, horizontal and face downward, and the invisibility of all the machinery gave an extraordinary effect of independent levitation. Tono Bungay Granting the survival of a savage exaggeration, granting the hallucinated saint, we may, perhaps, explain the innumerable anecdotes about miraculous levitation of which a few are repeated in our paper on ‘Comparative Psychical Research.’ Cock Lane and Common-Sense The levitation of a heavy table, under conditions in which it would have been impossible to lift it in ordinary circumstances. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Now, there may be people who never heard of levitation, nor even of “thaums,” a term that frequently occurs in the article we refer to. Lost Leaders No one can foresee just how far this legitimation of occultist phenomena under newly found scientist titles may proceed—even "prophecy," even "levitation," might creep into the pale. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature It is well known to all students of the higher truths that certain adepts and illuminati have in history attained the power of levitation—that is, of being self-sustained upon the empty air. The Innocence of Father Brown But when we are told the old tales of whirring noises, of ‘bilocation,’ of ‘levitation,’ of a mystic light, we are in contact with more difficult questions. Cock Lane and Common-Sense As to the levitation of the table,—an extremely light one, placed before Eusapia, and which her hands scarcely left,—we have not been able to formulate any decisive explanation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Instead of Plotinus, we are referred to a mass of Jewish and anti-Christian apocryphal traditions, which have the same common point—the assertion of the existence of the phenomenon of levitation. Lost Leaders Wilkinson—it is also asserted that his power of levitation was attested in later years by Lord Lindsay, subsequently Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, and by the present Earl of Dunraven. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Yes, gentlemen, here's your death explained, and without any levitation. The Innocence of Father Brown Mr. Kellar, an American professional conjurer, and exposer of spiritualistic pretensions, bears witness, in the North American Review, to a Zulu case of ‘levitation,’ which actually surpasses the tale of the gentleman’s butler in strangeness. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Hence there can be no doubt whatever about the complete levitation of the table floating in space. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z What accounts, then, are there of levitation among the civilized people of the Old World? Lost Leaders The recurrence of this sensation of flying over space caused him some slight alarm, for he explained that doctors considered it as a symptom of disturbed equilibrium in the system, which they called levitation. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 A companion, near at hand, was portrayed as gazing in rapturous wonder at this feat of levitation. Old Calabria Had we only savage, or ancient and uneducated testimony, we might say that the uniformity of myths of levitation is easily explained. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Aksakof obtained a levitation, in the séances at Milan, after having tied Eusapia's feet with two strings, the ends of which were short and had been sealed to the floor very near each foot. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Repulsion -- N. repulsion; driving from &c. v.; repulse, abduction. magnetic repulsion, magnetic levitation; antigravity. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases "No, dear, that is levitation," she said, "and comes a very long way on." Queen Lucia He not only described them, but explained some of the most extraordinary phenomena, for instance, levitation, the seeming evidence to the contrary of some laws of nature, notwithstanding. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Many living witnesses, of good authority, sign statements about Home’s levitation. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Sixth class: The Levitation of Human Beings.—The most striking cases of levitation which I have witnessed have been with Mr. Home. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z We explain by "levitation" the riding of the witch upon the broom-stick to the Sabbath; we can no longer refuse credence to Canidia and all her spells. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Yes, sir," he said to me, "levitation is not impossible. The Cruise of the Snark The homeward walk, for Lass and her new master, was no walk at all, but a form of spiritual levitation. Bruce I tortured myself with pictures of murderous yellow men possessed of the power claimed by the Mahatmas, of levitation. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper This levitation is contrary to the law of gravitation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z The case is not quite the same with levitation and the wonders performed, so travelers tell us, by certain Indian jugglers. The Unknown Guest He got levitation of the body, the handling of fire, movement of articles at a distance, rapid growth of plants, raising of tables. The New Revelation This may show how utterly unconscious I am at times to the sensation of levitation. All the Year Round: Contributions That is levitation, and is probably just as simple to him as striking a match is to you and me. The Land of Footprints Take the case of the levitation of a round table. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z At the last the levitation was such that the dynamometer rested horizontally on the table. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z This levitation, one of the most frequent phenomena that occur in the experiments with Eusapia, stood a most satisfactory examination. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z During the levitation the right hand of the medium often leaves the table, as well as that of her neighbor, and is held in the air above. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Eusapia's right hand was on the table, in full view,—though sometimes she held it in the air during the levitation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z This phenomenon of levitation is, to me, absolutely proved, although we cannot explain it. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z On this evening it was remarked that a little before the levitation, Eusapia's skirt was inflated on the left side until it touched the foot of the nearest table. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Now in what way is it possible for the contact of a light dress-stuff with the lower extremity of the foot of a table to assist in the levitation? Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Let us turn again to the finest of all demonstrations, that of levitation without contact. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z As to levitations without contact, we discovered a method of proceeding that renders their success easier. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z At 11.15 a complete levitation of the table for seven or eight seconds. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z As to levitations without touch our success was more decisive; but it was purchased at the price of a very considerable expenditure of force. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z After each levitation we had to rest, and, when we had reached No. 9 we were absolutely obliged to stop, overcome with fatigue. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z A whole hour will pass without the least rotation beginning; or, if there are rotations, levitations are impossible to procure; what little is done by the table is done feebly, dismally, and as if reluctantly. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z This levitation, equivalent to an effort exerted of 440 pounds, has its scientific value. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z In order to be sure of abnormalities like these levitations, for example, we must make sure of them a hundred times over; not see them once, but a hundred times. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Fraud cannot explain the phenomena, especially the levitation of the table, the violent blows and shakings given to the door, and the projection of the curtain into the room. b. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z During and after the levitations of the tables she has a feeling of pain in her knees; during and after other phenomena, in her elbows and all through her arms. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z M. Lombroso proved the levitation of the table, and estimated at twelve or fifteen pounds the resistance to the pressure which he had to make with his hands in order to overcome that levitation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z The levitation was accomplished rapidly, but without any jarring or jolting or jerking. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z She is seated, as usual, at one of the small ends of the table, a position least favorable for a mechanical levitation. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Our first care was to renew the experiment of the levitation of an inert weight. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It occurs at precisely the same time that the levitation without contact takes place when that manifestation is in process. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z We tried to produce rotations and levitations without contact, and had complete success. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z They show the undeniable reality of the levitation not total, but partial,—of the table which remained in an oblique position poised on two legs only. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Thus, for example, at the séance of November 28 a distinguished engineer, M. L., absolutely refused to admit the levitation of the table, in spite of the evidence. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z They show also rotations and levitations without contact, as well as glidings under the influence of a natural force hitherto only slightly studied. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z A careful inspection following each of several levitations, always showed that the dust-like layer of flour was absolutely untouched; and no portion of the table had escaped its tell-tale coat of white. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z They only develop, then, a total pressure of 66 pounds, which is quite insufficient to produce levitation. 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