Quantum levitation demonstrated in viral video

Very nice, but not possible in commercial use at this point in time, think about the energy requirement to just to cool the superconductor below its critical temperature...

The only use of this type of levitation are the MAGLEV's in China and Japan
 
This aint new tech... its using the meissner effect and has been around for along time....
 
Amazing super amazing astounding but what can we do with it? any practical ideas, and is it possible for anybody to make one maybe at home or something?
 
A somewhat big event, but is it newsworthy? As some people have pointed out, it's not at all new. I've seen it demonstrated in person myself.
Oh well, pretty cool anyway.
 
Rats - the secret of my surfboard is out!
Only I don't need roads lined with magnets - I can do it along the planet's flux lines...

(Signed: The Silver Surfer)
 
it isnt being levitated, its being locked, hence the reason he can set it at angles and upside down
 
@Wendig0 - No, just no, that is wrong on so many levels.

Oh really? Which part? There was a time when people said the same thing about man walking on the Moon.

It's not perpetual because you have to keep cooling the superconductor thats quite a lot of energy...

More importantly tho this could be the first step towards some kind of hover tech, would make sense that it should work with electromagnets also? You could wire up a whole road and only power the sections with "cars" over them to save power and still have great mobility.

You will note that I said it was "close". I didn't say we were there yet. :D

There may come a time in the near future when someone takes these principles, and refines them to the point where supercooling is no longer required to stabilize the magnetic field. It could happen.
 
Ahem - not "Quantum Levitation" at all. It's just a Super conductor. You cool them to their correct temperature (think just a few degrees above absolute 0), and magnetic lines wrap around them, instead of interacting with them - hence they "Levitate", or in this case, are supported by a structure of magnetic field lines.
This is nothing new - I did this in my Intro to Nano tech class just the other week, and I go WIT. When they figure out how to make a superconductor that operates at room temp, let me know.
 
and i thought back to the future was far off when they had hover/levitation technology in 2015. its finally becoming a reality
 
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