Tag: levitation

  • Reinventing a magnetic toy – the Levitron

    Reinventing a magnetic toy – the Levitron

    Levitation is one of these things that everyone thinks is cool. As a kid, I already tried out many times finding the right arrangement of magnets so they would float on top of each other. Finding out that some mathematician already proved this to be impossible hundreds of years ago was quite disappointing (Earnshaw’s theorem).…