🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec15.013620.24161@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:

> Now, I *know* that this material would have to be insanely rigid for
> this effect to be noticeable at all -- far more rigid than any actual
> stuff.  However, we're talking questions of principle here.  Is there
> any reason *in principle* why a sufficiently rigid material wouldn't
> levitate to get out of the earth's gravitational field - that's what I'm
> asking.  

Probably.  I'll bet you could prove that any material which really was
so rigid would also wind up being so dense that it couldn't levitate.
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