Quantum Levitation
March 27, 2012 11:19 AM   Subscribe

Quantum levitation that is all
posted by eggtooth (12 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Quantum locking is very neat stuff but we've seen it a couple times already. -- cortex



 
Holy cow.
posted by brundlefly at 11:22 AM on March 27, 2012


Did you know that normal magnets, even the kind on your fridge, they're also quantum mechanical objects. Permanent magnetism doesn't happen with classical thermodynamics. You need quantum to sustain it.
posted by Chekhovian at 11:22 AM on March 27, 2012


Van Vleck's Nobel lecture: QUANTUM MECHANICS
THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING MAGNETISM
posted by Chekhovian at 11:23 AM on March 27, 2012


Came in thinking this would be to levitation as quantum teleportation is to Star Trek. Color me pleasantly surprised.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 11:23 AM on March 27, 2012


Previously
posted by DU at 11:24 AM on March 27, 2012


Clarke's Third Law in action.
posted by brundlefly at 11:24 AM on March 27, 2012


Kind of a double.
posted by bonehead at 11:25 AM on March 27, 2012


ITT miracles
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:25 AM on March 27, 2012


Double.
posted by Chuffy at 11:30 AM on March 27, 2012


Please can we keep it? I'd rather talk about magnets again than see yet another Hunger Games Post.
posted by Chekhovian at 11:32 AM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]


Yeah, but how many people are going to want to ride on an ice train?
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 11:34 AM on March 27, 2012


magnets ? How do they work ?
posted by k5.user at 11:34 AM on March 27, 2012


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