It is said that it takes money in order to make more money. Likewise, it can be said that it takes energy in order to make more energy. As a consequence of the experimental success of quantum electrodynamics, which is the successful theoretical unification of the special theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, the plausible theoretical universe is believably created out of the vacuum state of squares of energy. In the order of spatiotemporal priority, the vacuum state exists only by the simultaneous implementations between the positive and the negative aspects of squares of energy. Although the absolute values of each tiny +² and - ² are always equal: |+²| =|- ²|, their directed space-time infinitesimal orientations are not. However, half of these orientations are always pointing in the opposite direction as required by a perfect spherical symmetry. The existence of this perfect symmetry proves that from the global perspective taking the universe as a whole the total numbers of space-time charges of H-pluses and H-minuses are always equal such that the difference of their sum is exactly zero: ∑|+²| -∑|- ²| = 0. Nonetheless, random local infinitesimal motions and orientations give rise to the observable quantum vacuum fluctuations of zero-point energies as the lowest possible energy levels of the space-time continuum.
Although these random fluctuations were predicted by the Dutch physicists Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (1909-2000) and Dirk Polder (1919-2001) in the 1940s, it was only in 1958 that the first successful experimental proof was carried out by M. J. Sparnaay. Later proofs were given by Lamoreaux (1997); Mohideen, et al (1998 ); Ederth (2000); Capasso, et al (2001); Onofrio et al (2002); and Decca, et al (2003). The ordinary effect is attractive; however, the repulsive effect was theoretically suggested by Evgeny Liftshitz as early as 1961. This has sparked interest toward the development of levitating devices. Finally, Casimir levitation was announced by the Capasso group at Harvard University in a paper published in Nature in January 2009. See http://www.seas.harvard.edu/capasso/publications/Munday_Nature_457_170_2009.pdf


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