Quantum levitation demonstrated in viral video


Recommended Posts

http://www.techspot.com/news/45905-quantum-levitation-demonstrated-in-viral-video.html

A demonstration by Tel-Aviv University?s Superconductivity Group School of Physics and Astronomy shows quantum locking in action. The video was recorded at the Association of Science ? Technology Centers Annual Conference and has already been viewed nearly 400,000 times in only two days.

The video was posted on YouTube on October 16 by ASTCvideos and shows a permanent magnet being used to levitate a thin superconductor layer in an effect called quantum levitation. In layman?s terms, the superconductor is so cold that it?s locking the magnetic field in three dimensions. The superconductor can seemingly ?hover? in space and even move along a track freely because the magnetic field stays the same.

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/046/401/original/mag271129017390.jpg?1271129149

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It's a variation of Meissner called flux pinning, and only occurs in Type II superconductors (alloys or oxide ceramics) due to grain boundaries or impurities allowing the flux lines to penetrate into its structure. Type I's don't do it because they're not penetrated by the flux lines.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Still very cool I am sure someone can come up with some sort of amazing technology to base on this (so long as it needs to be VERY cold :p

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I think that's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen...

100% agreed, that was awesome and amazing. I don't know what you could use that for in practical applications but it was damn cool!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If a room temperature superconductor were ever developed it could be very, very useful, especially for transportation - and theme park rides ;)

Oh gosh it would be hard to trust a theme park ride that wasn't connected to anything!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Is this not just the Meissner effect (i.e. nothing special)?

Nothing special? God, some people online are so up themselves.

YOU do something that's as 'nothing special' as this and then, and ONLY then, can you talk like some kind of super physicist. This is the thing of science fiction, and human minds around the world continue to amaze me on a daily basis.

I make iPhone apps for a living. I don't know what you do, but I am pretty sure it's probably pretty normal. To me, and millions of others, who do regular jobs, this stuff IS amazing.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I think that's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen...

Mhmmmm. :yes:

I want one. I'd love to build a big track, and make a larger scale cold superconductor into a skateboard shape and do some true hoverboarding, even if it is just in a circle! Dream come true!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Nothing special? God, some people online are so up themselves.

YOU do something that's as 'nothing special' as this and then, and ONLY then, can you talk like some kind of super physicist. This is the thing of science fiction, and human minds around the world continue to amaze me on a daily basis.

I make iPhone apps for a living. I don't know what you do, but I am pretty sure it's probably pretty normal. To me, and millions of others, who do regular jobs, this stuff IS amazing.

I think his point was that if it already exists in some form, then this variation is nothing special. It just is... well a variation.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If a room temperature superconductor were ever developed it could be very, very useful, especially for transportation - and theme park rides ;)

Oh gosh it would be hard to trust a theme park ride that wasn't connected to anything!

Magnets are already used in some types of rollercoasters, but I can see how you would mean to actually be zipping around something completely unconnected to everything

OMG that would be freaky LOL :o

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It’s still way too early to determine just exactly how such a technology could be used commercially but it certainly looks promising.

Somebody needs to watch Back to the Future Part II - BRING THE HOVER BOARD!!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.