Talk:Electrical Levitation/@comment-204.113.38.56-20121115144919/@comment-24459390-20140219044831

Gravity is the weakest of the four forces (From strongest to weakest: Strong Force, Electromagnetism, Weak Force, Gravity), and Electromagnetism (a combined version of electricity and magnetism, since electrical currents create magnetic fields or something such as that) is stronger. I forget how stronger, but like 10 with scores of zeroes behind it or something.

Anyway, atoms are all around us. As others have said, atoms have electrons and protons, which have electrical charges. They cancel each other out. But sometimes ions (molecules with a total net charge of positive or negative) are in the mix.

Ahem...let me explain the molecule part a bit better. Various types of bonds hold the atoms inside molecules to each other, most of the time the atoms sharing electrons. Usually there is unequal sharing between them, resulting in partial charges (example: a few electrons with -1 electrical charge at one end of the molecule. The missing electron's negative charge lets the protons of an atom on the other end of the molecule to fail to be negated by an equal charge. Therefore, the molecule has two "poles". This is dipole-dipole stuff. Look up intermolecular forces for a better explanation.

So all-in-all, this power would be using electrical or magnetic fields to repulse ions or such, pushing you away and in this case, up. Sorry for the terrible explanation.