SV: Capacity of the brain

[Peter da Silva]

In article <36N_3.36$ra7.381 at news1.online.no>,
patrik bagge <patrik-b at online.no> wrote:
> yup, depending on application, one or the other science will do.
> Iv'e heard that the finns have been messing with gravity, above
> a superconducting spinning disc. I wonder what newton&boys
> would say?

I don't know about what Newton would say (probably 'help' and 'get me out
of here' and 'aaaargh, I can't breathe'), but this sounds like superconducting
flux pinning (the Meissner effect: you've all seen the pictures of magnets
floating above superconductors).

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