Quantum Levitation: A Step Towards Consumer Anti-Gravity?
Friction-less propulsion has been the wet-dream of the Military-Industrial-Complex for at least 100 years. Needless to say they figured it out and have been exploiting it for at least the last 50. Why are we only seeing this now..? We’re supposed to believe that a University discovered this before a Black Budget in the Multi-Trillions per year?
Few motifs of science fiction cinema have been more appealing to us than the subtle defiance of gravity offered by futuristic hovercraft. So every once in a while we check in to see how humanity is progressing on that front, and whether the promise of hoverboards will be delivered by 2015 as evidenced in Back to the Future Part 2. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re definitely getting off the ground, so to speak.
Get ready to hover your brain around the art of quantum levitation. (more…)