Amazing video shows quantum levitation in action

By: Will Goodman
Topics: Viral Video

(CBS) - We are one step closer to achieving my personal dream of owning a hoverboard from "Back to the Future 2". Check out the above video displaying quantum levitation in action that proves once again just how cool science can be.

The amazing video demonstrating quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field was posted by YouTube user ASTCvideos and filmed at Tel-Aviv University.

If you'd like to check out more videos by ASTCvideos, you can go to their YouTube page by clicking here.

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by Funky-President October 20, 2011 3:23 AM EDT: wonder if it could someday tap into the earths magnetic field or the Sun's. Maybe even a gyroscope replacement. Think of millions of these on a nano scale spinning on a disc at astronomical speeds then spin the disc then put several discs together...; Reply to this comment


by FL_Son October 19, 2011 11:17 AM EDT: Incredible science.

As a note : Beware replying to air head comment trolls. The subject is Quantum Levitation, not religion. Trolls always change the subject. Don't give them the satisfaction of replies.; Reply to this comment


by isanyonefair October 19, 2011 7:55 AM EDT: Anyone interested in the science behind it: http://www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html; Reply to this comment

by tmittelstaed October 19, 2011 3:07 AM EDT

This is what is known in the trade as a "parlor trick"

It is quite easy to duplicate - just get 2 rare earth permanent magnets and put one on top of the other in a fixture and they will repel each other. Hovering magnets!

Unfortunately it has little practical value, unless your planning on gluing magnets to all the road surfaces in the country.

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by amerilatino October 19, 2011 8:27 AM EDT: Typical thick, American, self-assured dismissiveness. What is floating is NOT a grade-school rare-earth magnet, it is a supercooled test specimen. Unsurprisingly, high-power magnetic propulsion technology was developed subsequently by a Frenchman, Louise Octave Fauchon-Villeplee in 1918, a German, Joachim Hansler in 1944 and an Austrailian, Sir Mark Oliphant in 1950 and applied to peacetime use to develop and construct the first high-speed commuter maglev train in...China. In the meantime, authoritarian, know-it-all Americans feel really proud of their noisy, rumbling, 100 year-old technology diesel freighters and subways clattering through their cities at a snail's pace. Good for you.


by StreetGlideMan October 19, 2011 8:57 AM EDT: Are you really that dense? The only "parlor trick" here is your vain attempt at intelligence. Did you WATCH the video? Rare earth magnets do not "LOCK" into quantitized spatial orbits let alone orbits of varying angels to each other. Try that with a regular magnet, and it will flip and instantly join with the other magnet. As an American, in amerilatino's statements. We have fallen behind in science compared to the rest of the world, but hey, we have lots of churches...


by macintrance October 19, 2011 11:32 AM EDT: I suggests you study some more before posting another comment like this. You can start by learning about the Meissner effect. Check out Wikipedia on the subject (don't worry, you don't need to know calculus to read it).
Little practical value? Paving roads with magnets? I hope you are not a congressman.


by rwsmith29456 October 18, 2011 5:51 PM EDT: Could this be related to gravity???; Reply to this comment

by rightbehind October 18, 2011 5:13 PM EDT

by realist1111 October 18, 2011 2:18 PM EDT
Don't be silly! Science is much more amazing than any of your gods!

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LOL! There is a story that goes something like this. A scientist said we now know all that God knows. So God reaches down and picks up a hand full of dirt. The scientist says that soil. It's comprised of, and then God interrupts and says make your own.

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by doctor_know October 18, 2011 10:38 PM EDT: Making soil is easy.... seriously.


by enlightenu October 19, 2011 11:07 AM EDT: When I read this I laughed so hard I soiled my underwear

by ChristinaHare October 18, 2011 1:45 PM EDT

Ezekiel's spaceship, Ezekiel chapters 1, 2, 10: a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it... quantum levitation.

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by realist1111 October 18, 2011 2:18 PM EDT: Don't be silly! Science is much more amazing than any of your gods!

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