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MichaelKent Special user 560 Posts |
From http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/06......chnology
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Aug. 6, 2007 — Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionize the design of micro-machines, a new report says. Video Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3A4CRoQA3A |
emanmagic5 Special user Toronto, Canada 614 Posts |
Wow cool!
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
From little Acorns...
Hi Michael! How you been?
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
What specifically does an unproved theoretical phenomenon which exists on the submicroscopic scale have to do with the levitation of people or cars etc?
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
What a peculiar question...
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Bill Nuvo Inner circle 3094 Posts or 2742 Posts |
Well it is Jonathan...
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Reading is fundamental: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/9747
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12......pet.html How do you expect a force that varies inversly with the FOURTH POWER of the distance to be useful to macroscopic levitations? And meta-materials... gee that went nowhere fast last year. The blind floating the silly? I can see it may have potential in the microelectronics or control mechanics for the standard mechanics but not so much as a direct replacement for things which take strain on the order of foot-lbs.
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
This is 'Not Very magical'...and who ever said macroscopic ? Or People or cars?
Nice avatar..you are human.
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
Subatomic particles have their way with scientific theories, in, on, around or through.
POOF!
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Psy-Kosh Regular user Michigan 134 Posts |
I'm curious as to how this would work. From what I understand, whatever this mysterious hypothetical lens does, it would have to effectively produce a result such that as the planes approach each other, the vacume energy density between them increases instead of decreases.
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