The day of the bike is over.

Kieran_Burns
Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
edited October 2011 in Commuting chat
Get ready for Quantum Levitation:

http://youtu.be/Ws6AAhTw7RA?hd=1

:D

Superconducting magnets cooled by liquid Nitrogen....
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  • tptvmbircn
    tptvmbircn Posts: 782
    that is amazing! :D
  • chadders81
    chadders81 Posts: 744
    What I don't get is why there isn't a massive crowd standing round watching that.

    I can't even begin to start understanding that. Unless somebody on here can explain it to me like they would a five year old.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,745
    Woah massive nerdgasm!!!
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    The Bank of England could solve a few financial problems with some of that Quantitative Levitation.

    Very, very impressive!
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I just showed it to Mrs EKE and 3 of her female mates. No reaction.

    Show them a kitten playing with a ball of wool though and they go crazy. I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Wimmin, eh?"
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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    isn't this the Meisner effect?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect

    However supercold things do some very "cool" stuff. (pun not really intended).

    SUch as flowing uphill, stopping light.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Chadders81 wrote:
    What I don't get is why there isn't a massive crowd standing round watching that.

    I can't even begin to start understanding that. Unless somebody on here can explain it to me like they would a five year old.

    http://io9.com/5850729/quantum-locking- ... es-it-work

    Should help
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  • chadders81
    chadders81 Posts: 744
    No. I understand the words individually but together they make no sense.

    Anything to do with electrics will forever be a mystery to me. I'm comfortable with any that's mechanical but not this sort of black magic.
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    it's magic
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    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

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  • zippy483
    zippy483 Posts: 104
    Well as the great ACC once said

    "any sufficenty advanced technology would appear like magic to us mere mortals"

    Imagine the impact TV would have had in the middle ages it would have got you burned at the stake


    Quantum levitation is very cool though
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    zippy483 wrote:
    Well as the great ACC once said

    "any sufficenty advanced technology would appear like magic to us mere mortals"

    Imagine the impact TV would have had in the middle ages it would have got you burned at the stake


    Quantum levitation is very cool though

    unlikely as they didn't have the elec-trickery to power one :roll:
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  • fidbod
    fidbod Posts: 317
    Must have one of them.

    Great link KB
  • RoadyForever
    RoadyForever Posts: 170
    I would love some of these in bearings that don't require me to carry a tank of LN2.
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Chadders81 wrote:
    What I don't get is why there isn't a massive crowd standing round watching that.

    I can't even begin to start understanding that. Unless somebody on here can explain it to me like they would a five year old.

    http://io9.com/5850729/quantum-locking- ... es-it-work

    Should help
    I don't think there is any part of quantum theory that doesn't blow your mind.
  • big_p
    big_p Posts: 565
    Chadders81 wrote:
    What I don't get is why there isn't a massive crowd standing round watching that.

    I can't even begin to start understanding that. Unless somebody on here can explain it to me like they would a five year old.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG ... re=related
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Used to do very similar demos when I was at uni. Cool stuff. Was amazing the first time I saw liquid helium go superfluid.
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  • tptvmbircn
    tptvmbircn Posts: 782
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    I just showed it to Mrs EKE and 3 of her female mates. No reaction.

    Show them a kitten playing with a ball of wool though and they go crazy. I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Wimmin, eh?"

    haha awesome, gotta love the ladies!
  • Mr Plum
    Mr Plum Posts: 1,097
    That is literally very cool.
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  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    Nothing to do with magnets, just a very small cat, some buttered toast & superglue.
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