A team of graduate students from University of Leicester in the U.K. have developed a theory on technology that will give people the ability to walk and dance on the ceiling.
The students are looking to accomplish this feat with boots that include slightly raised rubber insulators on their soles, according to Discovery News.
The raised area between the boot and the ground would create a space for a vacuum that acts as a suction cup in order to make the boot stick to the surface. The students' calculations show that the reduction in air pressure needed for keeping the boot secure is almost equal to the same amount that a regular vacuum cleaner creates.
While the boots are not exactly the gravity-defying kind, they can give the wearer gravity-defying abilities, thanks to the vacuum and pants that are powered by a battery, SlashGear reported.
The students said that because of issues with weight limits, the battery will let wearers walk on the ceiling with the boots for about 20 minutes.
The idea for the boots came to the students from the 1993 Wallace & Gromit claymation movie The Wrong Trousers, in which Gromit uses a pair of battery-powered pants to walk up walls on Earth and in space, Discovery News reported. The team said, however, that a lack of air pressure will prevent people from using their pants in space.
The students' research was published in the journal Physics Special Topics.
