This is awesome. I'll have to dig into it later to get my head around how it works.
Mind blown 
The only reason this isn't black magic of the highest order is that (presumably) anyone can repeat it...
When you start approaching absolute zero, super conductors can do some really cool stuff.
What a levitated Quantum may look like.
In reply to Knurled. :
Lmao!
In reply to Trackmouse :
I tried to find a picture of one getting air, but having lived with one for close to 100k miles, I doubt that you could get one going fast enough to get any photogenic hang-time...
Knurled. said:In reply to Trackmouse :
I tried to find a picture of one getting air, but having lived with one for close to 100k miles, I doubt that you could get one going fast enough to get any photogenic hang-time...
Large cliff's are good for air time at any speed
https://www.ted.com/talks/boaz_almog_levitates_a_superconductor#t-499293
This is worth the watch if you want a little more detail.
Now if only we could replicate this without the supercooling. That'd be cool.
I think the more sci-fi idea of "repulsers" or "anti-gravity immiters" would be awesome. Basically some way of having a Emdrive that doesn't produce radiation, but also doesn't produce heat. It would be akin to an oversized Dyson bladeless fan. A silent (aside from the air rushing) bladeless helicopter.
In reply to pheller :
As I understand it, a type 2 superconductor is needed for quantum locking to happen. Some type 1 superconductors become type 2 superconductors if they are supercooled.
I would hazard a guess that type 2 superconductors are extremely expensive so they are using a supercooled type 1 for demonstration purposes.
Toyman01 said:
Cool - It's a Mobius strip!
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