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Researchers have taken a step closer in the quest to develop hoverboards, as used by Marty McFly in the film Back to the Future II, by levitating objects in 3D using sound waves. While scientists have previously managed to suspend objects in mid-air using what's called acoustic levitation, a team of Japanese engineers have managed to move objects around space in various directions. Bubbles, a screw and a tiny piece of wood have so far been manoeuvred like a hoverboard, but the objects must be inside a complex set-up of four arrays of speakers to be able to fly.
The machine, which was created by engineers at the University of Tokyo and the Nagoya Institute of Technology, uses ultrasonic speakers to generate sound waves that cross over.
According to the researchers, this intersection creates 'a moveable ultrasonic focal point,' or a cross-over of high frequency noise greater than 20kHz, which is at the upper limit of human hearing.
Standing waves - waves that remain in a constant position - provide a suspending force so the focal point can be moved up, down and from side-to-side, in order to support a small floating object trapped in the standing waves
Alundra
This is fascinating stuff .. hoverboards may be closer than we think !
I think this also reinforces the theory that the pyramids were built using levitation.
Maybe add UFO propulsion into the mix as well ? (this is ATS after all)
Researchers have taken a step closer in the quest to develop hoverboards, as used by Marty McFly in the film Back to the Future II, by levitating objects in 3D using sound waves. While scientists have previously managed to suspend objects in mid-air using what's called acoustic levitation, a team of Japanese engineers have managed to move objects around space in various directions. Bubbles, a screw and a tiny piece of wood have so far been manoeuvred like a hoverboard, but the objects must be inside a complex set-up of four arrays of speakers to be able to fly.
The machine, which was created by engineers at the University of Tokyo and the Nagoya Institute of Technology, uses ultrasonic speakers to generate sound waves that cross over.
According to the researchers, this intersection creates 'a moveable ultrasonic focal point,' or a cross-over of high frequency noise greater than 20kHz, which is at the upper limit of human hearing.
Standing waves - waves that remain in a constant position - provide a suspending force so the focal point can be moved up, down and from side-to-side, in order to support a small floating object trapped in the standing waves
More info + pictures and a video here : www.dailymail.co.uk... ml
TiM3LoRd
Great minds think alike
I just posted this. its amazing . Check out the convo and the video
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brianporter
There were steam powered airships in the 1850s that were closer to hoverboard technology than this is the closest thing approximating a hoverboard so far is the jet packs which were first developed in the late 1950s.
RedmoonMWC
Reminds me of Coral Castle in Florida.
Went to the grave with Edward Leedskalnin.
"The Secret To The Universe Is 7129 / 6105195" "Gave my heart an engagement ring, She left everything, Everything I gave her, Oh sweet sixteen"*
I just found the statement "Edward Leedskalnin would only respond to precisly two rings at his Rock Gate"
cos(6105195) = cos(45)
45x16 = 720 = 360x2 = 2 rings
cos(7129) = cos(71) 71x16 = 1136 = the speed of sound
Edward knew the secret and it went to the grave with him.
Mon1k3r
Pretty soon they'll be levitating 20 ton stones! Oh wait...
Alundra
This is fascinating stuff .. hoverboards may be closer than we think !
I think this also reinforces the theory that the pyramids were built using levitation.
Maybe add UFO propulsion into the mix as well ? (this is ATS after all)