Quantum Levitation

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Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field (www.quantumlevitation.com). For an explanation of the physics behind this demonstration, visit quantumlevitati....
With the theme "Knowledge that Works: From Theory to Practice," the 2011 ASTC Annual Conference featured more than 100 sessions, which highlighted how science centers and museums are putting new ideas to practical use to serve their communities. The conference was hosted by the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, October 15-18.

[@n0tthemessiah]

I love that guy's enthusiasm. He's all "Hm, yes. Fantastic." I'd be shitting my drawers, jumping around in excitement, screaming and clapping "Again, Again!"

[@zacharycoleman1117]

me2thx

[@LiberatedMind1]

I know right! I'd be jacking off with excitement!!!!!!!

[@silenthill19981]

Mind blowing stuff!

[@LucasMiddleNameandLastname22]

what are you? me? because same.

[@chadwells3868]

I remember watching this video when it first came out in '11; my mind was blown. Came back around '15 and '18. I'm back again in '21, and my mind is still blown.

[@consultoramorimrj]

This video is here in my external HD and I just watched and came here to see it again here in KZbin looking for some comments about it. It's been a long time and I say the same!

[@uchihasasuke7436]

Yo i thought it was just me lmao

[@terribleshockex110]

Welcome to 2022

[@dungcao7483]

why no update to this technology?

[@sephirothsoul999]

​@@dungcao7483 (Still) not enough funding into research for inorganic chem/room temperature superconductors, 11 years on 😬

[@scotts-tech]

I think this is going to be fixed in the next universe patch.

[@Minutewave]

i hope life is to in that patch

[@rustyshackleford8086]

I hope not every time they patch somthing I end up clipping into an alternate universe.

[@Da-Ron_Davis]

They're not going to patch it, it's a mechanic that they made on purpose because it's cool.

[@simpleinverso8628]

You give me tier zoo vibes

[@larryenticer7695]

ya this is super OP, this is the next one man army

[@CJusticeHappen21]

This is the stuff that gives me hope.

[@PheneticsCo]

lol. hope for what? hehe to put yourself in a freezer and rotate yourself on a magnet?

[@snkhuong]

hope for the future of humanity you dimwit

[@toustik5451]

Dimwit... reminds me of Bioshock, is this how they made the flying city?

[@muhammada8952]

hope of understanding all that alien and ufo shit is doing by US govt. to divert attention from bombing on innocent people.. earth is magnet it self and it got its own magnetic field and these ufos are flying by US soldiers not alien..

[@stevenfriedman2902]

@@muhammada8952I think you give the US too much credit

[@thomash.fredriksen7070]

"I had trapped the atom in mid-air. Colleagues called my Lutece Field “Quantum Levitation”, but in fact, it was nothing of the sort. Magicians levitate. My atom simply failed to fall. If an atom could be suspended indefinitely, well -- why not an apple? If an apple, why not a city?" - Rosalind Lutece

[@a.artbart3020]

+Thomas Holen #bioshockinfinite

[@JMEowen]

[@cantorlok2815]

I hate that game! Bioshock 1 and 2 are better.

[@The_Autarch]

Why we are all here

[@mitchellheick4830]

Make that just Bioshock 1

[@funkmystar]

I wonder how fast it would spin around the centre before it sort of shot out. Superconductors and superfluids are fascinating

[@XxWhIpLaSh18xX]

"-my atom simply failed to fall. If an atom could be suspended indefinitely, well-- why not an apple? If an apple, why not a city?"- Rosalind Lutece

[@tn9711]

Bioshock Infinite for you non gamers...

[@MrClickity]

"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams

[@marcywantsto7553]

MrClickity "I'm gay" - John Cena

[@nil233x]

Quantum my ass, this magic and scientists are the new wizards.

[@Numitronic]

+Lin B Well, you know... Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Jk, we actually discovered magic but we won't tell because we just want to continue having fun in our labs.

[@siccoblue2112]

you're an absolute motion, sarcastic or not

[@mrchangcooler]

+SB Gaming A lot of people are motions these days

[@siccoblue2112]

Mr.chang cooler well yeah, what's the fun in being static?

[@mrchangcooler]

SB Gaming Dare I say, no fun!

[@throbbygogmuncher8548]

alright, now where are the goddamn hoverboards?

[@Absalonian]

Look at the lexus hoverboard commercial

[@IKingRonin]

maybe if you didnt curse the lords name, we'd have reliable hover boards by now :P

[@sakemi]

well you could only ride them on magnetic tracks so it would just be a super inefficient and dangerous type of train, basically

[@lastresort2600]

@@sakemi I'm sure someone tried to introduce hoverboards in some way at some point, but I guess they got. . . Cold feet. I'm washing my hands and going to bed.

[@ItDaBiz]

Relevant quote from BioShock: "My atoms do not levitate, they simply fail to fall'.

[@evrettej]

One small step toward something so awesome that it will chance our lives forever. I can't wait to see this on a bigger scale! Thank you for sharing!!!!

[@NewWorldOrderResistanceMilitia]

You don't have have to wait :-) just look at the moon.

[@2bituser569]

@@NewWorldOrderResistanceMilitia moon, sun, stars.

[@RaikenXion]

It may already have been used "on a much bigger scale." In Secret, Black Book Projects for decades now.

[@NewWorldOrderResistanceMilitia]

@@2bituser569 During the last total solar eclipse of the sun, I knew for 99.99% sure that I was being lied to about going blind when you stare into the eclipse, I was so sick of being lied to, I had to know for sure, for once, for myself. I expected to see multiple moons for some reason, or to go blind, I was ready to go blind, made peace with never seeing again. I had my frigging camera in hand, I was going to wait for the peak, can't really point your camera directly at the sun. You can only really barely glance at the sun without hurting your eyes so I kind of waited until it was about a 1/4th, I had my hand as a sunshield, but I didn't really need it anymore, it was the light of the yellow sun that causes the eye to squint. All I could think is "How in the f*ck is the sunlight lighting up the moon so bright when it's behind the moon?" It looked exactly like moon, except it was like someone's hand slipped when they were turning up the brightness on the moon and it went to +10,000% brightness, it flared with power, you could literally see waves of black light, it is so bright, but so soothing, nothing like the other sun. I could wrap my head around what I was seeing, what am I seeing?! Then I realize, a black sun... all I could think was "They've been hiding an entire sun from me, what else have they been hiding from me, how stupid am I?" The more you learn, the more you see how little you actually know. It gets really close, like could hit a tall building close. After staring at it for awhile, I looked around to see if anyone was around so I could say "Hey look, a black sun!", they probably would've thought I was crazy, but as I looked around, everything was this weird shade of red, purple, pink, black, it was ultraviolet, I thought "Oh sh*t, I really did f*ck up my eyes!... it's not so bad", but it was bad, it was real bad, I wouldn't be able to drive, all the lights the same color, it would be to hard. So I look back up at the suns and the blue sky is gone, it was like putting on those sunglasses that let you see underwater. You see the stars clear as day, these huge celestial bodies of... they reminded me of the ghosts that come down the stars in the 80's Poltergeist, you see everything, every is connected, kind of like (sorry for using so many movie references) that spinny planet thing in 80's the Dark Crystle, everything in the universe is connected, you can see them. then everything moves together, like a clicking clock, it is all...one big machine. Then it all starts to fade, this foul bright blue mist, shroud, vail hides everything, blue light, sun light, white light. The next total eclipse of the sun is really close, not terribly far away. Eastern USA, I'm not sure, I want to go, I'll record it this time. I want to get a hot air balloon and try to fly into it, that would be bad ass.

[@keptick]

I don't understand my life anymore....

[@krishnamohan2351]

You don't have to.. Ignorance is bliss!

[@Ka-bj4hm]

According to Vedic philosophy, our material life is an illusion, a dream of the soul. These dreams were billions and billions of reincarnations will still be.

[@ExpensiveGun]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke

[@Chris.Davies]

This doesn't look anything like magic. It looks like physics.

[@DoubleBarrelDarrell]

How is this video 11 years old and I'm just now learning about it?? It's unreal! 🤯

[@StacyWantsYou]

He clearly stated it's, "Quantum Locking" not "levitation" and yet it was titled that way, ha ha.

[@Haughington]

+StacyWantsYou It is levitation achieved by quantum locking

[@CarlitosPR94]

Quantum locking is the method, Levitation is the result

[@evanrutherfordlazyahole9079]

I'm trying to visualize the magnetic fields in my head and really understand what is happening in terms of interaction I love learning physics and your ability to explain complex interactions that seem like magic who I am kidding this is magic. Honestly physics is making me love math just seems like it gives it more of a purpose. You don't need to be on Roger Penrose level to enjoy the benefits of learning it.

[@dieirl22]

Superconductors are awesome. I've played a bit with one once when my physics II class visited the research labs. Very cool stuff.

[@SycrosD4]

Okay, so where's my hover board?

[@craosZ]

***** make it 2.... or better yet. flying cars

[@boomidctv6017]

Guy Guyson thank you yes! I was saying why don't they I male ment this into cars and change the roads similar to how horse roads got paved over for regular cars finally I ve been saying this. And just urs me because it's like no one wants to change or create any more everyone just wants to settle with the now

[@NoNameC68]

BOOM! U JUSTgot PRANKED! idc Tv How would this be more beneficial than the roads we're currently using? Remember, you need to take into consideration the amount of resources such roads and vehicles would require, the cost, and the mechanisms to make these things work. The reason we aren't using this mechanism isn't because people prefer to stick with the familiar, but because this just isn't a viable mechanism for travel at this point in time.

[@SycrosD4]

Guy Guyson Killjoy...

[@SycrosD4]

Guy Guyson That's what I said.

[@Youtuberfan10]

You can build all trains on Quantum Levitation and that would go even faster than an air-plane and they would even be sustainable and environmentally friendly. (MAGLEV trains).

[@acousticsound7]

Trains? thats all u come up with? you can do anything with this you idiot. You can do ANYthing, do you get it? Cars, whatever, it doesn't even have to be a vehicle

[@Youtuberfan10]

MrTokeHard That's true you idiot. You can even build cars with it. That's a good idea you idiot! You are very funny you idiot. :-)

[@Zalamedas]

MrTokeHard No actual need to be a dick.

[@zachstober767]

He's got a point they'd never crash

[@punkandmetalman]

the only problem is it takes a lot of energy to get something that cold

[@HyperSpify]

Read the video description. It has a link to a page explaining it. Webpages are best for explaining physics, because you can read it at your own pace, go back and forth and reread things, and the site can have diagrams and equations. KZbin videos are not good for explaining physics. They are best for showing cool things. Perhaps a single popup annotation linking to the site would have been better, so it's impossible to miss.

[@hatfinch]

Amazing to think that this tech may someday be so commonplace that people don't bat an eyelid. To me it's jaw-dropping, like a mobile phone would be to someone from the 1800s.

[@Furrylittleproblem12]

this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen

[@michiel7716]

It is so cool that it is hot

[@joshberry777]

And there we have it people, an invention for a new age.

[@ScuffyP]

The Columbia to which you're referring is a floating city in an alternate 1900's reality, set within the 3rd game in the Bioshock series. With this world, a Quantum Physicist, R Lutece, through her understanding of quantum Mechanics, helped build Columbia's foundations in the sky above America. On a side note, it was her obsession with alternate universes that led her to capture and "float" the first atom, to which she endeavored to call quantum levitation.

[@gladwintirkey3367]

The future is Upon us.

[@b6876]

Thanks for the video, Jeff Goldblum

[@DelandaBaudLacanian]

Bryan Hoffpauir Life finds a way

[@LightYagamiI]

The atom simply failed to fall. If an atom can be suspended in air, why not an apple? If an apple can be suspended, why not a city?

[@erionnetic1626]

You'd have to make that city REALLY cold and consistently that cold at that! You'd have to soak like, the city in liquid nitrogen or something every couple hours.

[@LightYagamiI]

kitty blank Can we build a city FROM liquid nitrogen? That place would be cool. -That was a reference to the Lutece twins from Bioshock infinite :P

[@erionnetic1626]

It really could be cool, because it'd be cold as balls man! But the thing is, liquid nitrogen is liquid and would just...fall...Plus noone would be able to live in it! Ahh sometimes science is really uncool.

[@pithikoulis]

What would the purpose be? I don't think it would be impossible to levitate a city. You would just need some huge mechanism underneath it that cools the platform where the city is built-on. And that is with the tech now. Scientists are trying to get superconductivity without the cooling process.

[@TheDarbyface]

because an apple is not a supper conductor

[@bananabottles]

the vapor coming from it just makes it way more sci-fi looking This is awesome and could be the future of transportation for future generations

[@TheNinjaToaster99]

WITCHCRAFT!!!! THIS MANNER OF SORCERY IS ONLY OBTAINABLE BY CALLING UPON THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF DARK MAGIC.

[@azvrias]

I love this comment

[@hobofromsoho]

TheNinjaToaster99 Yeah... Good thing we aren't living in the dark ages anymore...

[@Turtle_God]

TheNinjaToaster99 BURN THE WITCH!

[@rustyshackleford8086]

Dude I've been on no fap for over a year now and still my wizard skills aren't up to this level of power.

[@cristiansosa1512]

I can imagine my grand kids with hoverboards already.

[@hynjus001]

Remember to tell them that it won't work on water unless they have power.

[@alesin1992]

Why grand kids? Back To The Future promised us hoverboards in 2015!

[@Ukeleleninja]

FreeGoro we have boards that use water as a propellant and do work with water now though.

[@duncanng3]

The hoverboard is already here, sadly it only work on metallic surfaces.

[@jaredconner6567]

@@alesin1992 oh you naive person from the far past

[@TheJustinJennings]

This is amazing! Imagine if we could utilize this as some form of transportation.

[@matteoonate7887]

There are levitation trains

[@SharpSharries]

Quantum levitation is kind of a broad and silly term... basically it just means using enough force to overcome gravity.. or just simply, levitation. The actual phenomenon demonstrated here is called Flux Pinning. It is a variant of the Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect, typically referred to as the Meissner effect. Traditionally, the Meissner effect is attributed to the expulsion of all magnetic fields in a Type-1 superconductor when cooled below its critical temperature. It will levitate when placed above a magnet, but will not be "pinned" in place because the magnetic flux lines just simply go around it and can't penetrate it. Substituting a Type-2 superconductor cooled below its critical temperature for the Type-1 is where we get "flux pinning". This happens because the lines of magnetic flux (tubes) can penetrate the imperfections in the Type-2 (or "high temperature") superconductor's crystalline structure, thus holding it in place as demonstrated in this video. For now, this is basically a novelty.. though it has great potential for practical use. The impracticality is due to the fact that the superconductors have to maintain their critical temperatures and the fact that they are not yet "cheap" to manufacture. This could hypothetically be overcome by a "room temperature superconductor", but we are not quite there yet. We are currently too busy creating VajAnkles and such to be bothered by science. Also, your mother is a whore. (Quantum Levity)... get it? Oh well.

[@normietwiceremoved]

Alright, can we make a floating city now?

[@John-if4vz]

Bioshock infinite irl confirmed

[@JazzyBoiZ]

+dylan lipuma Check out mat pats video game theory about that in his channel Game theory, he talks about thsi and alot of other stuff, its pretty cool

[@krishnamohan2351]

And spin it at 1000rpm.

[@Minutewave]

the would be cold AF

[@treatb09]

@7500 subs with no video challenge actually, the temperature only plays it's role in creating the superconductor. you can insulate the superconductor and still achieve lock, because you can not insulate a magnetic field. atleast, yet.

[@nickapuzzo]

It's easy to imagine a lot of application for this technology in the nearly absolute zero temperature of space.

[@OmikronGT]

ITS NOT FLOATING ITS LOCKED

[@Minutewave]

im mean its both because for it to quantum lock i would be in the air for a period of time witch means it is levitating

[@HaiHoangAznRaven]

never get bored watching this...

[@patu8010]

Magic. Got it.

[@JJAB91]

Columbia here we come!

[@NadjaLind]

cool

[@AlyD247]

Wow, quantum trapping and locking are incredible! This is amazing, great video!

[@QuadiePoo]

But how was he able to touch it? Isn't it really cold?

[@sniels7]

+Quade Carter it is cold and he will get frostbite if he holds it long enough but he just don't hold it long enough it is not like in the movies

[@aluisious]

+Quade Carter It's covered by a lot of ice. Ice isn't that cold.

[@therose7728]

It's because of liquid nitrogen. But it has to be really cold. That's what I heard.

[@ayoubbaydoun252]

So atlantis had super conductors that's how they floated

[@jeanlucncoelho]

How much weight can a quantum locked superconductor support?

[@joeytarnowski6018]

I believe it's somewhere in the range of tens of thousands of times the superconductors weight

[@leswilliams9565]

A TED talk stated the wafers shown can “levitate” 800 times its own weight. They don’t disclose the weight of the wafer itself though

[@Dallasl_andscaping_.]

He was so close to figuring it out. Add in high radio frequency waves at about 10,000,000 micro hrtz and additional spin to modify gravity. The cooper pairing in the electrons is the real substance of the subject and the way the magnetic lattice squeezes the cooper pairs along.

[@AdrenalineCrew]

Best part are the 546 bullies who clicked thumbs down because they are pissed the nerds they abused created such wonderful things

[@avrumelehb4153]

I can guarantee those thumbs down were put there by pro-Palestinians trolling around KZbin to be negative about anything that comes out of Israel. Science means nothing to those fools.

[@toadhead3971]

Avrumeleh B lol, you're right! While they're doing quantum levitation in Tel Aviv, the latest technological achievement to come out of the Muslim world is a buzzer that goes off when you fall asleep on your prayer rug.

[@mikedavis5745]

Adrenaline Crew Little do they know, the nerds won :D

[@IamGrimalkin]

+Toad Head Yeah, the Muslim world has no science and engineering whatsoever. That's why Dubai has the highest building in the world.

[@avrumelehb4153]

+IamGrimalkin It would be very nice if people (you) had a clue about WHO it was that built that building. it wasn't Arabs...it was a South Korean firm. Even you might know that Koreans aren't Muslims. All the Arabs have is money...lots of money from the oil that they're lucky enough to sit on. If it weren't for oil there'd be nothing.

[@altaica3522]

That moment when flat earthers use this as proof the sun and moon are small and close.

[@leswilliams9565]

Don’t worry about finding flaws in the FE theory, consider the contradictions in the model you embrace first.

[@altaica3522]

@zwady Grow some brains, thank you.

[@samatics4]

@@altaica3522 Why the personal attack? Your vulnerability is showing.

[@saltyshackles5227]

Everyone is talking about transportation. Think of the energy systems you could build with this! No friction!

[@THEGREATONE420]

+John Oliver you are making assumptions and false assertions.

[@iamwhatiam4712]

+H Majhail hes being sarcastic but you would need SOME type of friction in order to convert it to physical energy

[@THEGREATONE420]

I AM WHAT I AM if you limit yourself to our current understanding of physics/the universe.

[@THEGREATONE420]

uhhh it's already known, it's called zero point energy. the entire universe (all matter) is composed of energy.

[@IamGrimalkin]

Well superconducting rings are being thought about for energy storage systems, yes. Although that isn't based on the movement of the disc itself (since there is air resistance) but the movement of electrons in persistent currents around the ring.

[@Merchantic]

New phrase now: Best thing since Quantum Levitation

[@OskaIvanovichSmirnov]

Ok you are abusing a matrix's unpatched glitch. I'm gonna report you right now.

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

Colombia, IRL

[@g-man1637]

Now that's just to kool.

[@1NatureLady1NL]

Wow!

[@mrsir3653]

It's like them futuristic films where they have cars like this is what will happen one day

[@g-man1637]

SHTF PREPPER The only friction would be the air. Think how fast you could go.

[@mrsir3653]

G- Man it would be quite cool wouldn't it

[@ikester2030]

literally the coolest thing i have ever seen in my entire life

[@fermiLiquidDrinker]

What if somebody used this for the next generation of trains?

[@nickraymond8900]

This is actually a great idea. If this idea works, transportation not only increases, but the durability of the track would permit a far longer use to what we have now. If you add some electronic propulsion through solar energy, you receive a clean way of transporting goods across cities and countries.

[@niallmullins3398]

There is a magnetically levitating train in Japan, called a Maglev Train. Unsure if it uses quantum levitation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train

[@joelgabriel3093]

It does not use quantum locking. Quantum locking requires superconductors and thus very low temperatures (about -190C). Maybe one day we can have superconductors and room temperatures, but not today. Rather, it uses electrodynamic suspension. The repulsion caused by magnetic fields are the reason for levitation.

[@eusuntdracul8306]

excuse me but i ve heard somewhere that eds involve superconductor whereas ems(electromagnetic suspension) involve super strong magnet...is it true?

[@celineelsayed5241]

Maglev train :)

[@Mbrace818]

***** ***** ***** Raheem Plummer Is this awesome?! Or is this fucking awesome?!!

[@michaelletherman3835]

Holy shit nuggets.

[@RoyPlummer1995]

Awesome.

[@PhysicsGuy1000]

Raheem Plummer *_Just_** awesome?*

[@RoyPlummer1995]

***** No. It's *Super fucking* awesome.

[@theryumancer9639]

Damn! O_O

[@danielevav]

Israel, a tiny dot on the map, keep inventing cool stuff

[@rustyshackleford8086]

Fuck Israel

[@ZoggFromBetelgeuse]

"Can be seen" is short for "Is seen if somebody is looking at it". So, we can reformulate your question to "If nobody is looking at it AND somebody is looking at it, is it seen?". In other words, "If (falsum),then (whatever)?" The answer is, of course, "yes". That's pure logic; a conditional is true if the antecedent is false. Ex falso quodlibet.

[@bluerazzbery]

100 year old technology...being discovered. It's cute, but that's about all.

[@HazZzur]

What i don't understand about this: This superconductor plate is locked in space relative to the magnets. So it has to withstand an acceleration of 9,81 m/s^2 (earth gravitation). But with his hand, he can apparently move it around freely. Ofc the force applied by his hand is much bigger than gravity but... why is there a limit to the force the superconductor plate can withstand? Where does it come from? And can it be influenced? I thought we were talking in absolutes here. "locked in space" "quantum locking"

[@fichtnerd]

Dr. Malcolm is very uh... impressed!

[@S3ahorsex]

I thought so, too. Thanks for your kind words.

[@Jimera0]

no that's not the same kind of magnetic levitation. Those aren't using super-conductors like this; just really, really powerful electromagnets. Those actually provide propulsion, this just levitates the superconductor. The movement demonstrated in this (unless I'm much mistaken) is all from gravity and the demonstrator pushing on it. There's just so little friction due to the levitation that it doesn't slow down very quickly.

[@scappooseproductions]

With a larger scale application you could design a system to keep the magnet stored and cooled and away from whatever you were "trapping" with it.

[@marvinkitfox3386]

The most impressive, by far, is the naked-hand handling of the superconductor. That, and just how long it stays cold enough. He must have some bitchin' good insulation on that.

[@coreyhughes1456]

This is so fucking cool. So glad to see that science is still capable of creating things that look like straight up magic.

[@Hravani4CM]

Such an amazing interview by Jeff Goldblum. :P

[@samurphy]

Most likely a piece of special material (ceramics) which become superconductors at Liquid Nitrogen temperatures. It looks like they have cooled the puck with LN, then added dry ice on top of it to slow the warming of the object, which gives more time to do the demonstrations before having to be re-cooled.

[@dwighthuth1171]

The first questions is, are Magnetic Flux Lines able to carry enough current to operate a logic gate? The reason I ask this questions is, if Magnetic Flux Lines are able to carry enough current to operate a computer logic gate, then a whole new type of CPU can be developed. The basis of the Quantum Processor is rather simple. The processor shell is comprised of neodymium magnets. The logic gates are made of superconducting material that would allow the logic gate to be suspended between the top and bottom of the CPU shell. Based on Quantum Trapping, the logic gates could overlap each other, the current then being passed along the magnetic flux lines would interact with the logic gate to create a function. But because the magnetic flux lines are not blocked, proven by passing a magnet under another magnet on a Quantum Levitating track, would the same current of electricity traveling with the magnetic flux lines be able to operate a stack a 50 logic gates, all designed to perform a single and different operation?

[@Ridorim]

I've seen this video in class. Can't complain.

[@WoWVaeyethron]

Once we get complete understanding of that technology, it'll go a long ways.

[@SadisticThrasher]

that.........is one of the coolest thing i ever seen, amazing

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Hi Jesus. I thought the only perfect one no longer existed in human form, but I guess I was mistaken. Great to have you back.

[@OzcarMike641]

Very good demonstration.

[@kaikarden]

Logically speaking, the heavier the object is, the colder you would need to get it to maintain quantum locking. So no only would you need to find copious amounts of super-conducting metals, you would need to find them light enough to make it so that you didn't need to freeze it below absolute zero (the temperature of space is only 2.75 degrees above absolute zero last time i checked). So it might not entirely explain it with our current foundation of knowledge.

[@pennybea]

It's a superconductor. It takes as much energy as it costs to cool it to the temperature of liquid nitrogen, and for the magnets to create the field it 'levitates' on, essentially. And for travel, is it mostly unviable as of now, as until we improve our technology further, they could only travel on predefined paths.

[@jessicpl1234]

This is super cool. It would be neat if we could find a way to make transportation work this way via the magnets vs. fossil fuels. We're a long way off, obviously, but that would be super interesting and hopefully more environmentally friendly.

[@2bituser569]

We do have magnetic 🧲 rail trains. Not levitating but still uses magnetism to drive the train.

[@bigby9892]

imagine they make electricity with it

[@DGD1733]

The shuttle was a shuttle, what he is referring to is the floating CITY featured in Bioshock: Infinite.

[@FelipeUmbra]

Quantum Physics is just... mind-blowing

[@Nekinzhiwii]

There is no reason to question one's pleasure source. Brain plasticity works like that. I was raised, and learned through life to achieve pleasure from X. If X would be harmful to my beloveds, or gave me some kind of trouble, I'd question it. Anyway, if you're that interested, I have to study, so this is mere procrastination. I'm not even getting pleasure out of this... I'm rather avoiding displeasure from studying. "Diatribe", really loved that word. Now all of this was worth :) Have a nice day

[@ANPMTG]

This is really amazing. Side note: Who is the jazz artist in the intro??

[@SnydersCat]

Wow, this is cool, where I can buy a super conductor, I really want to repeat this experiment.

[@bate6977]

I'm glad to see others hear Jeff Glodblum.

[@cloviscareca]

Most incredible thing I've seen

[@seppisimo1816]

I learnt a bit about this in physics, people to make this work the material needs to be at its critical temperature this is below -200 C, so until we find a way to efficiently keep the material at the temperature we won't have any hoverboards.

[@WillewallEE]

It's a micron thin sapphire wafer, covered in the superconductor yttrium barium copper oxide

[@jasonclements1978]

Thanks for your demo and video!

[@Knuckx117]

Oh my god... this is so full of science, my head exploded.

[@Dr0ctober]

I feel like if you implemented this in conjunction with bullet train technology it could make for some pretty interesting travel options

[@BringerOfD]

is this a reference to that experiment where some particles produced one result, but then when the scientists tried to observe what the particles were doing it produced a different result?

[@kidleatherspoon]

the disc is made from a thin sapphire wafer. It is then coated with a very thin ceramic layer of yttrium barium copper oxide.

[@SILVERF0X13]

It is frozen with liquid nitrogen and the nitrogen rolls off when it is taken back out like water would, so there isn't any on it. Also you can safely pour liquid nitrogen over your bare hand without being hurt so long as you do not attempt to hold it.

[@PhilipReeder]

My mind is blown away...

[@bsoccer626]

A lot of people don't even think about the technology that exists today. This Quantum Levitation is incredible. And it is probably simpler to create than one thinks. I have always thought that levitation, of any kind, was impossible. A future of hover-cars now seems realistic for the near future. The world is advancing so quickly people don't even realize it.

[@Muzzy12]

I would just like to know 1. What determines the maximum height of the object's suspension? And 2. What determines the minimum amount of force needed to change the position of the suspended object? Because he's moving the wafer with his hand pretty effortlessly, so obviously the wafer can't carry a lot of weight at any fixed height.

WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS??

[@Dino502Run]

This is astounding

[@Warkingist]

WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS?????

[@proxy1035]

so for this to work you need: - a Magnetic field - a Superconductor (cooled) soooo, what happens if we put a cooled Superconductor-ring around a Magnetar?

[@volderhamer]

boom

[@w.a.prestoniii7723]

My Tesla is currently downloading a patch for a recall, the Quantum Locking Capabilities were not working. After this download, I should be able to levitate anywhere I want to go!

[@R.T.and.J]

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you... The roller coasters of the future!!!

[@orentropen]

So what if you locked something in the earth's magnetic field? So many applications for this on a larger scale