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Doctor Glyndwr
 Post subject: Quantum Levitation : fun with superconducting magnets
PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 17:07 
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Awesome.
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Malabelm
 Post subject: Re: Quantum Levitation : fun with superconducting magnets
PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 17:08 
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA">YouTube Link</a>

Awesome.


Brilliant, isn't it.
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Zardoz
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Malc74
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 17:20 
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That'd certainly make family dinners a bit easier...
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Where's my FUCKING JETPACK!

However, that is awesome :)

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Splendid! My Back To The Future-style hoverboard is one step closer!
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Zardoz
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kalmar
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Wow! Space-hockey from the year 9000.
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Zardoz
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Kalmar, can you make me this?

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kalmar
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We'll see. Just mind your Ps and Qs...
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sdg
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That's amazing :)
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Bobbyaro
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Fuck! That is awesome!

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Rog
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Snort! This was on Tomorrow's World ~20 years ago!

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Mimi
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You mean physics hadn't changed in 20 whole years ?!?!

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Rog
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More that research in this field of physics hasn't moved on in 20 years.

e: having said that, as far as I can remember, the magnets in Tomorrow's World were being put forward as being in perpetual motion. I don't know how long that show went on for, but I'm unconvinced by a 1:56 video.

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BikNorton
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Perpetual motion apart from the need to power the magnets and cool the puck. Sigh. I used to believe Tomorrow's World was properly factual.
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Derek The Halls
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This tech needs to be implemented immediately to make some very cold trains that float at peculiar angles.

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I'm pretty sure British Rail perfected cold, oddly leaning trains at some point in the 1970's...

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