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Sadly for sci-fi enthusiasts the technique, detailed in the Nature Photonics journal, has only been proven to work on a particle five microns wide, and can not be scaled up to suck in spaceships because too powerful a laser would be required.
Originally posted by ObjectZero
It's not a down side just the wrong market. Aim at a slice of bread by time it gets to me I have toast.
Originally posted by moebius
How is it different to this? phys.org...
Researchers from the University of St Andrews and the Institute of Scientific Instruments (ISI) in the Czech Republic have found a way to generate a special optical field that efficiently reverses radiation pressure of light. Read more at: phys.org...
Originally posted by phantomjack
Too bad, OP, that you dont know the difference between a "tractor beam" and a "transporter"
FAIL