10 Inventions That Will Make Harry Potter A Reality
Magic is real. It is.
There is a certain generation who all hoped in their heart of hearts that, on their eleventh birthday, an owl would deliver a letter inviting them to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unfortunately, we all had to suffer the disappointment when no such letter arrived (didn't we? Right? RIGHT?)
No Hogwarts, no magic lessons, no feasts in the Great Hall, no Quidditch - just the local secondary school with its double maths, soggy school dinners and vicious hockey matches in the driving rain. But in true, optimistic spirit, the human race has set about creating the technology to give us all the magical powers that we crave.
There are even a number of fan theories floating around the internet that suggest the magical powers of the wizards in the world of Harry Potter are actually based in scientific reality. The theory goes that witches and wizards have successfully mastered the world of quantum physics, allowing them to bend reality to their will.
Ideas of conjuring, teleportation, transfiguration and even Floo Powder can all find at least semi-satisfying explanations in the world of quantum mechanics. With everything from magic wands to Skele-Gro in the works, scientists, researchers and inventors have all been working tirelessly to try and bring a bit more magic into the world.
10. Levitation = Mag Lev
The ability to make objects fly is one of the first things that young witches and wizards are taught when they enter Hogwarts.
Levitation and flight have been an obsession of the human race (for the muggles anyway) for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. However, it would now seem that we're beginning to catch up with the wizards.
Mag Lev (that's magnetic levitation) technology looks to be the future of travel, with everything from trains to hoverboards harnessing its powers. Through the use of repelling magnets, we are able to suspend objects in the air without any other support than the magnetic field.
Not only is this damn cool and bringing us ever closer to hoverboard technology, but it's also an incredibly efficient way of getting around.
Objects suspended in a magnetic field can be moved around with almost zero friction (apart from the air) meaning that trains slide effortlessly over tracks, turbines rotate without any drag and we could even use it to launch rockets into space at breakneck speeds using very little fuel.
Plus, we don't need to remember the correct pronouciation in order to make it work.