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Topic started on 7-1-2009 @ 04:34 PM by TheComte

U.S. scientists learn how to levitate tiny objects


www.reuters.com
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics, and said on Wednesday they might use it to help make tiny nanotechnology machines.

They said they had detected and measured a force that comes into play at the molecular level using certain combinations of molecules that repel one another.

The repulsion can be used to hold molecules aloft, in essence levitating them, creating virtually friction-free parts for tiny devices, the researchers said.

Federico Capasso, an applied physicist at Harvard University in Massachusetts, whose study appears in the journal Nature, said he believed that detection of this force opened the possibility of a whole new class of tiny gadgets.
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reply posted on 8-1-2009 @ 01:32 AM by Illusionsaregrander
It is cool, but hardly breaking news.

www.sciencedaily.com...

ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2007) — St. Andrews scientists have discovered a new way of levitating tiny objects - paving the way for future applications in nanotechnology.


Breaking to the MSM perhaps.


reply posted on 8-1-2009 @ 03:16 AM by TheComte
reply to post by Illusionsaregrander



Or maybe US scientists are two years behind St. Andrews scientists. I guess they don't have MSN Messenger.


reply posted on 8-1-2009 @ 03:27 AM by JanusFIN
This is surreal!

Yesterday came news from Hamas Secret Weapons...
www.abovetopsecret.com...

I was joking about "Hamas Air Carpet Forces" (HACF) threatening Tel Aviv... "If Hamas starts to levitate in their top secret stealth carpets..."



So does this mean that "secret weapons" are now in hands of USA?

- Thats what the US troops in Gaza border are catching! Illegal flying carpets from India...
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