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Now that you have acquired your LEVITRON® and have (Presumably mastered the art of spinning the top and placing it in its position of stable levitation, you are perhaps beginning to feel the full sense of wonderment
LEVITRON® excites in many people. We receive numerous queries from LEVITRON owners asking for an explanation of how the LEVITRON works. Many express puzzlement that it works at all, often citing a theorem due to Earnshaw (1,2) as proof that it should not work. Interest in the LEVITRON has always run high among scientists.