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How does one find out the amount of weight a superconductor can support? Is there a formula?

I don't see what your getting at. I was merely wondering if it would work at all, I don't remember saying there couldn't be other ways to do it. Are you talking about using the Meissner effect instead of flux pinning? Would that be stable?

Well, I don't know about other ways without flux pinning, but pinning seemed like the way to accomplish what I wanted. The reason I'm curious about all of this is simply that I wondered if there was a way to create an object inside another object in a natural stable configuration where the two...

Ok, so I just made a diagram of a better way to do it. How about instead of one superconductor in the center we have 6 superconductors, each next to one of the permanent magnets, and attached to a cube in the center. You really have to see the attachment. Anyways, since the magnets are...

Of course I have, and you aren't listening to me. I made it clear in my post I'm not talking about just levitation. In those demonstrations the superconductor can still move and spin around, it just can't move up and down. I'm talking about when the superconductor can't move in any direction...

Well it doesn't have to be perfectly symmetrical just to hold the cube in place does it? I'm really just curious about question of whether or not a superconductor can be fixed in place somehow without touching anything.

As I understand it, flux pinning is when a material becomes a superconductor in the presence of a magnetic field, say from a permanent magnet, and the lines of flux from the permanent magnet are trapped inside the superconductor causing the superconductor to be held ("pinned") at a fixed...