Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor
Lit Corner | Posted 318 days ago | July 6, 2012 | 12:00 AM | Short Link: http://sethto.us/9pr
http://www.ted.com 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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