U.S. scientists learn how to levitate tiny objects

U.S. scientists learn how to levitate tiny objects

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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.

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This coupled with new toys being made which claim to allow you to use the force to move objects with your mind, help to bring "the Force" more and more into the mainstream. The toys being developed for release this year use a devise that detects brain waves attached to a remote control device that sends signals to the receiver that translates those into moving a ball around, or elevating a ball in a tube.

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[edit on 1/10/2009 by smokecrops]

It's good in a way that these scientists have finally learned how to "levitate small objects".

Maybe they should go for a trip to Tibet and learn how to levitate big ones...

yes and by small objects were talking virtually nonexistent objects, these are so small they are barely visible by electron microscope, but still this could be a huge advancement, in nano technology. Using this "force" to power nano machines or what not...... could be one of those discoveries that doesn't seem to mean much at first but then down the road turns out to be invaluable.

Originally posted by NuclearPaul
It's good in a way that these scientists have finally learned how to "levitate small objects".

Maybe they should go for a trip to Tibet and learn how to levitate big ones...

Good news I guess, it's a start, to be honest I thought they would have already gotten this far (as in to levitate objects the size of molecules). Mhm...

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I've seen previous evidence that we can all already create movement with the power of our minds.

There was an experiment done several years ago involving the use of alternative remedies.

A scientist was developing study to see if a minute amount of any substance added to a greater diluting solution still retained the original substance. The idea was that, through diluting, any substance would eventually become non existent.

The results of the test were hard to explain. They were seeing that the small substance still existed in equal volume. All data showed this.
But when it was analyzed externally, without the data provided, other labs couldn't find anything within the solution.

After repeated attempts to explain the discrepancy, they eventually had to propose that, somehow, the lab staff who knew what testing they were doing were somehow "creating" the substance with an unknown ability or power. It simply needed the awareness of what they were seeking in order to create it.

I don't know what they did after this, but it does suggest that Humans have an ability to manipulate microscopic particles, or even to destroy/create them.

I'll try to find a link to it, but to be honest, it was about ten years ago and I don't know where to start a search on it.

reply to post by NuclearPaul
Please, short of scientists using powerful magnets, noones 'levitated' anything.

Especially in the sense that I imagine you're referring too.

Originally posted by science lol
reply to post by NuclearPaul

 

Please, short of scientists using powerful magnets, noones 'levitated' anything.

Especially in the sense that I imagine you're referring too.

I was under the impression that hot air balloons and hovercraft's levitated

Edit: Helium balloons, The Hindenburg.... I'll think of some more later

[edit on 12/1/2009 by Now_Then]

Originally posted by Now_Then

Originally posted by science lol
reply to post by NuclearPaul

 

Please, short of scientists using powerful magnets, noones 'levitated' anything.

Especially in the sense that I imagine you're referring too.

I was under the impression that hot air balloons and hovercraft's levitated

Edit: Helium balloons, The Hindenburg.... I'll think of some more later

[edit on 12/1/2009 by Now_Then]

you'd normally call that floating. the mechanisms behind how they work is well understood.

Originally posted by detachedindividual
reply to post by smokecrops

 

I've seen previous evidence that we can all already create movement with the power of our minds.

There was an experiment done several years ago involving the use of alternative remedies.

A scientist was developing study to see if a minute amount of any substance added to a greater diluting solution still retained the original substance. The idea was that, through diluting, any substance would eventually become non existent.

The results of the test were hard to explain. They were seeing that the small substance still existed in equal volume. All data showed this.
But when it was analyzed externally, without the data provided, other labs couldn't find anything within the solution.

After repeated attempts to explain the discrepancy, they eventually had to propose that, somehow, the lab staff who knew what testing they were doing were somehow "creating" the substance with an unknown ability or power. It simply needed the awareness of what they were seeking in order to create it.

I don't know what they did after this, but it does suggest that Humans have an ability to manipulate microscopic particles, or even to destroy/create them.

I'll try to find a link to it, but to be honest, it was about ten years ago and I don't know where to start a search on it.

wow dude that is crazy. Please try to find a link or more info about that....it smacks of Schrödinger's cat, the simple act of observation vastly affects the end result or outcome of an event or experiment. Schrödinger's cat also deals with quantum entanglement, but thats more involved, but for this discussion, lets say, for example, you ask me if the TV is turned on or off, well until I look at the television it can, and is, both turned on and off at the same time.....and it all boils down to the act of just looking at something forces it to be one way or another, just looking at the TV forces it to be either on or off, until its observed it can be and in fact is both on and off......this experiment you are talking about is very similar to Schrödinger's cat. Thank you for bringing this up, I'll be researching this and trying to find out more info about the experiment you were talking about. Do you have any more info about it at all?
If so please post, thank you.

[edit on 1/12/2009 by smokecrops]

I didn't realize it at the time but its also very similar to the Observer effect, and to a lesser extent, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The Observer effect states that the act of observation will make changes to the phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. I layman's terms its like what I was talking about in my earlier post, the simple act of observing changes the what you are observing. Even though this mainly applies to the realm of quantum mechanics and quantum theory, there are very concrete parallels, in most all branches of science and thought. Anything can be anything if its unobserved, that is all things can exist in all their possible states until they are measured or observed. Lights can be and are both on and off at all times, until someone checks to see. Its a very interesting theory, its like the ancient proverb about a tree in the forest. In regards to this theorem, the tree both makes a sound and is silent, until someone walks into the forest. Very very mind "bottling" to put it in the words of Will Ferrel from Blades of Glory

The experiment you were referring to also has interesting applications in relation to people's preconceived notions. You'd think scientists were the most objective people in the world virtually unaffected by preconceived notions, but as you referred to previously, even the scientific method can be affected and contaminated by subjectivity and opinions.

still looking for info about that experiment.

Originally posted by smokecrops
I didn't realize it at the time but its also very similar to the Observer effect, and to a lesser extent, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The Observer effect states that the act of observation will make changes to the phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. I layman's terms its like what I was talking about in my earlier post, the simple act of observing changes the what you are observing. Even though this mainly applies to the realm of quantum mechanics and quantum theory, there are very concrete parallels, in most all branches of science and thought. Anything can be anything if its unobserved, that is all things can exist in all their possible states until they are measured or observed. Lights can be and are both on and off at all times, until someone checks to see. Its a very interesting theory, its like the ancient proverb about a tree in the forest. In regards to this theorem, the tree both makes a sound and is silent, until someone walks into the forest. Very very mind "bottling" to put it in the words of Will Ferrel from Blades of Glory

The experiment you were referring to also has interesting applications in relation to people's preconceived notions. You'd think scientists were the most objective people in the world virtually unaffected by preconceived notions, but as you referred to previously, even the scientific method can be affected and contaminated by subjectivity and opinions.

still looking for info about that experiment.

Totally beat me to it!

But as for the experiment you are talking about, it was the Double Slit Experiment. Found a bit on what you are talking about...

In this theory, an electron that is not being observed does not exist as a particle at all, but has a wave-like property covering the areas of probability where it could be found. Once the electron is observed, the wave function collapses and the electron becomes a particle. This theory rather neatly explains the behaviour of the particles in the double slit experiment. When we are not looking at the particle, the probability wave, of even a single particle, is spread out and will pass through both slits at the same time and arrive at the detector as a wave showing an interference pattern. When we observe the electron by placing detectors at the slits, it is forced into revealing its location which causes the probability wave to collapse into a particle. If the theory is correct, its implications are staggering. What it suggests is that nothing is real until it has been observed!

Nothing is real until it has been observed!

www.thekeyboard.org.uk...



And here is a page actually dedicated to the effect an observer has on the experiment..

www.bottomlayer.com...



Anyway. Absolutely fascinating stuff! I'm always intrigued by the quantum world.

Great find.


[edit on 1/12/2009 by deadline527]

[edit on 1/12/2009 by deadline527]

Originally posted by science lol
you'd normally call that floating. the mechanisms behind how they work is well understood.

levitate Verb to rise or cause to rise, suspended, in the air

float
1. a. To remain suspended within or on the surface of a fluid without sinking.
b. To be suspended in or move through space as if supported by a liquid.

DUH! Muppet....




[edit on 13/1/2009 by Now_Then]

Well I just found out I can move stuff with my mind, and it's been around for thousands of years, one must begin from the top and see what is at the bottom initiating the third way whcih is asserting your own will if it is even your own which is separate anyways my point is that scientists as smart and amazing as they are can be very closed minded, it is not their fault though