Question: how does the superconducting stuff make other things levetate?

Natalia Parzyk answered on 16 Nov 2011:

There is one small trick about it: superconductors can make levitating anything which is magnetic itself or just has a magnet attached to it, that’s for example how the superconducting magnetic levitating trains works (and there are already trains like that e.g in China). If I get that £500 I want to make a model of train like that to bring it to school for students to can have a look and get to know how superconductor works.

And how the superconductors can make levitating anything which is magnetic (or with magnet): Superconductors (in certain state, not all of them, and not always, but for now just quick picture).. so they expels all the magnetic field from inside of itself (it’s like some superconductors just don’t allow magnetic field to stay inside it). So if you put magnet near such superconductor it will be pushing that magnet away because it doesn’t want magnetic field to enter (so called Meissner effect) and that’s what make materials levitate. Hope it make it more clear, probably would be clearer with model 😉