AR: Levitation

Levitation: matter buoyancy in a gravity field
Levitation is a sophisticated spell that allows a magician to adjust and control the relationship between and object and the way gravity affects it.

Unlike a remote kinetic effect like Arcanokinesis, where raising an object remotely would be more akin to downward-projected thrust, using levitation is closer to providing lift – or adjusting the whole-object buoyancy within a given gravity field. Note that levitation does not afftect the overall gravity field. There is mild effect of lighter gravity above a levitated object, but that's a mundane side-effect of the alteration of gravity above that point.

The difference in efficiency is in orders of magnitude. It is possible to levitate an object with a much lower arcane energy output in comparison to kinetic methods.

> Weight vs energy

> Duration vs energy