News: Casimir force reversed

Scientists, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, are claiming about reversing the Casimir force (which is attractive only and works on nano scales) and have made tiny stuff repel instead of attract.

news.bbc.co.uk...
www.telegraph.co.uk.../news/2007/08/06/nlevitate106.xml

I'm sorry for the crappy quality of reporting here. These articles sound like they are written for 3 year olds. I couldn't find better reports atm.

Its nothing to do with levitation/antigravity or ZPE etc, don't take the reporters too seriously. But the inventions is very important and perhaps a major milestone for physics.

Another link here: New Scientist

I started a breaking news thread two days ago on this and got no replies. I thought I was the only one to spot it. Now there's three threads on the same subject. Here's my thoughts on it anyway. Repeated here, lol.Lying in bed last night I was thinking about the first TVs ever invented, comparing them to today's HD flat screen super-duper telly. Wow, what a difference. Now, all these new "wee" inventions in levitation & (I hear also) teleportation. If we, the public, are given the use of these inventions for our every day objects, it just makes you wonder what scientific inventions they're using behind the scenes & how far ahead they might me than we think. I can speculate forever. Perhaps they might even have "shape-shifting UFOs" that appear & disappear? Why not?
Big trees from little acorns grow.

This was only posted a few hours after you did, and this is a better forum for responses..

It's certainly interesting, but far too early in the research to claim zero-grav etc

This is the breakthrough that will make quantum computers stable. Here is a link that explains how the atoms need to be stable and cannot touch each other. computer.howstuffworks.com...

This may be the start of the world change that sends us into the next stage of evolution. nano technology has been moving along very rapidly in the last few years. The applications could be endless once it is perfected. We will see what happens in a few more years.