Quantum Levitation

ATAG_Doc · #1 10-28-2011, 05:58 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG71U&

Skoshi Tiger · #2 10-28-2011, 08:10 AM

I like how they shaped their disks like the Jupiter II.

Well we'll probably see it next as a rail gun firing superconducting projectiles!

Cheers!

Codex · #3 10-28-2011, 08:11 AM

I remember doing these experiments in my physics lectures at Uni some 20 years ago ... ah the memories.

335th_GRAthos · #4 10-28-2011, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by timej31

Who are you and where is Raaaid?????

bongodriver · #5 10-28-2011, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Who are you and where is Raaaid?????

This post was actually fascinating....and real so nothing like a raaaid effort.

335th_GRAthos · #6 10-28-2011, 09:12 AM

True, but from the title, I clicked and I was expecting something else...

TomcatViP · #7 10-28-2011, 09:54 AM

Yeah yeah yeah ... And how much weight that nitrogen bottle ?

335th_GRAthos · #8 10-28-2011, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by TomcatViP

Yeah yeah yeah ... And how much weight that nitrogen bottle ?

Fair point but this is not the issue.

The important thing is the realisation that materials behave completely differently compared to the laws of physics we know in a supraconductive state.

The next step is to achieve supraconductive state under suitale temperatures for industrial usage. This may take some time but it is highly likely to become posible "soon".

Then, we maybe running our 1100W PCs on a single AAA battery...

Sternjaeger II · #9 10-28-2011, 10:48 AM

I think we're at the same stage when they first came up with the idea of the steam engine here: the theoretical and empirical aspects are there, they only need to refine them, but above all think on how to use this.

TomcatViP · #10 10-28-2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Fair point but this is not the issue.

The important thing is the realisation that materials behave completely differently compared to the laws of physics we know in a supraconductive state.

The next step is to achieve supraconductive state under suitale temperatures for industrial usage. This may take some time but it is highly likely to become
posible "soon".

Then, we maybe running our 1100W PCs on a single AAA battery...

Oh ok so let me guess how it will work in the future :

A wealthy chineese or Indian teenager somewhere in an ultramodern city typical of the post "Battles for Africa" new colonian war will cruise on his levi-iboard powered by a micro AAA battery ... while a poor emmigrant from old western Eu will run aside with a pyggy packed 25kg nitrogen bottle