Comments on: Amazing Quantum Levitation Technology Could Open the Door to Floating Vehicles!

By: niharn56

niharn56 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:22:04 +0000

its very interesting project..can u mail me the full details about it??

By: stevester8308

stevester8308 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:41:04 +0000

Id love to be about in 200 years when this is being used to power our transport .

By: gletscher

gletscher — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:39:44 +0000

It’s not the youtube video on the frontpage but the one in the download section, or here: http://www.ifw-dresden.de/offers/downloads/videos/supratrans2.wmv

By: Gletscher

Gletscher — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:33:59 +0000

Yeah they figured out that viral video part alright, while german engineers figured out how to build the real world vehicle: http://www.supratrans.de check out the video in the media section, given they could work on their viral marketing skills…

By: arise

arise — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:15:02 +0000

Put the yttrium copper barium oxide inside some kind of ferrous mercury base, inside a hollow torus. Super-cool the contents and position 30 ring-shaped magnets around the torus. Fire the magnets in sequence around the torus to rotate the mass. I’m talking fast, like 50-70,000rpm. Wouldn’t any structure attached to the torus levitate with it?

By: GrizzlyPaw

GrizzlyPaw — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:21:05 +0000

Floating vehicles already exists.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev

By: Chicken nuggets

Chicken nuggets — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:53:49 +0000

Near future?

This idea isn’t new, it could already be done with the yttrium copper barium oxide magnet.

Also the minor implication with using temperatures below the curie temperature (around -180°C in this case)means it’s probably not as “near future” as time travel.

By: Charli

Charli — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:34:18 +0000

The only thing these researchers at Tel Aviv University have “discovered” is how to create a viral video out of a known phenomenon. Research on superconducter levitation has been ongoing since at least Walther Meissner’s work in the 1930′s and there are numerous other youtube videos showing this exact quantum locking phenomenon going back about 10 years. In order for this technology to be applied to floating cars, we would have to magnetize all roadways and find a way to build our vehicles out of superconducters while cooling them to near absolute zero. Not exactly practical…

By: Spaceman Kermit

Spaceman Kermit — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:49:57 +0000

This is definitely a cool, and a step up from standard superconductors, but unless they figure out a way to magnetize our highways, cars aren’t going to float using this technology.