{"id":1192,"date":"2007-08-07T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:27:18","slug":"yay_hoverboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"yay hoverboards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">i think its been a while since ive actually posted any kind of interesting scientific doohickey. but hey, look what we have today! via gizmodo, scientists say that they\u2019ve figured out a way to reverse the casimir force, effectively allowing objects to repel rather than attract each other. in other words\u2026hoverboards yo! well, not yet anyway. their primary concern was reducing the friction in nanotechnology when small objects would be inclined to stick together. but whatever\u2026hoverboards! since the casimir force is independent of electricity or gravity, this allows for a broader range of applications once they can control the attraction and repelling of atoms. and once they\u2019ve perfected the science, it wouldnt be too far out there before we see hoverboards, hovershoes, hovercars, and a host of other cool shit we\u2019ve been waiting for since the start of the 21st century. silver jumpsuits are forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">in other news, that woman in the photo really could use some moisturizer\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/08\/06\/nlevitate106.xml\" target=\"_blank\">casimir force reversed<\/a> (via <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/jaws-19-coming-soon\/physicists-figure-out-how-to-cause-levitation-hoverboards-imminent-286499.php\" target=\"_blank\">gizmodo<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/levitate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/levitate1.jpg 270w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/levitate1-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/levitate1-250x303.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/levitate1-149x180.jpg 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i think its been a while since ive actually posted any kind of interesting scientific doohickey. but hey, look what we have today! via gizmodo, scientists say that they\u2019ve figured out a way to reverse the casimir force, effectively allowing objects to repel rather than attract each other. in other words\u2026hoverboards yo! well, not yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}