Wizard Science

According to the 'brane-Universe' theory, gravity is different from electrical forces because it 'leaks' away into the space between the parallel Universes (each a separate membrane in different dimensions). On the other hand, gravity from these other Universes may be the force that controls speeding galaxies in our Universe.

Until now, astronomers have put the restraining force on galaxies down to 'dark matter' in our Universe. But - despite searches with the Hubble Space Telescope - no-one has tracked down this dark matter. Gravity leaking from an unseeable parallel universe could be the unseen power controlling our fate.

Controlling dimensions could give us the magicians' power to travel instantaneously across space. A wormhole is a tunnel through other dimensions that bypasses space: you could step into a wormhole on Earth, and step out immediately onto a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Time Travel

Wormholes are cousins of the deadly black holes - and black holes definitely exist. To tame a black hole into a safe wormhole, you need to counter its lethal gravity with some kind of anti-gravity device. Defying gravity outright sounds like sorcery gone overboard - yet sane engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama believe they are on the way to building an anti-gravity device.

And this may crack the final power that resides in the magician's darkest spells: the control of time. With wormholes, scientists believe they can construct a time machine.

Now controlling life, space and time, scientists are indeed taking over from sorcerers as Masters of the Universe.

Related Links:

Levitation

http://www-hfml.sci.kun.nl/levitate.html - Showing real levitation using diamagnetism for the Sumo Wrestler as well as the 'hovering frog'.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - This link will take you to the homepage.
The Lightcraft Project - This is the homepage for the Lightcraft Project at RPI which is part of course MEAE-4850 Transatmospheric Vehicle Design dealing with what we might term 'flying saucers'.

Elixir of Life