How can a super-thin, three-inch disk levitate something 70,000 times its own weight? In a riveting, futuristic demonstration, Boaz Almog shows how a phenomenon known as quantum locking allows a superconductor disk to float over a magnetic rail -- completely frictionlessly and with zero energy loss.
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor
Libellés :
Electricity and Magnetism,
Lecture,
Levitation,
Magnetism,
Superconductivity,
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