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Scientists Levitate Small Animals
LiveScience ^ | 29 Nov 2006 | Charles Q. Choi

Posted on 11/30/2006 11:53:20 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman

Scientists have now levitated small live animals using sounds that are, well, uplifting.

In the past, researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China, used ultrasound fields to successfully levitate globs of the heaviest solid and liquid—iridium and mercury, respectively. The aim of their work is to learn how to manufacture everything from pharmaceuticals to alloys without the aid of containers. At times compounds are too corrosive for containers to hold, or they react with containers in other undesirable ways.

"An interesting question is, 'What will happen if a living animal is put into the acoustic field?' Will it also be stably levitated?" researcher Wenjun Xie, a materials physicist at Northwestern Polytechnical University, told LiveScience.

Xie and his colleagues employed an ultrasound emitter and reflector that generated a sound pressure field between them. The emitter produced roughly 20-millimeter-wavelength sounds, meaning it could in theory levitate objects half that wavelength or less.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: acousticlevitation; levitate; levitation; ultrasound
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Nothing really new, Nasa has been doing this for years.
1 posted on 11/30/2006 11:53:21 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
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To: FLOutdoorsman
Some say the Egyptians built the pyramids this way.
2 posted on 11/30/2006 11:54:46 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

I can levitate many things. Ping pong balls, feathers, food and drinks to my moth when I need to... ;)


3 posted on 11/30/2006 11:55:08 AM PST by ColdSteelTalon
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To: FLOutdoorsman

At times compounds are too corrosive for containers to hold, or they react with containers in other undesirable ways.



So, these guys are working on Universal Solvent?


4 posted on 11/30/2006 11:55:26 AM PST by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Anti gravity? Or reverse it and have artificial gravity?


5 posted on 11/30/2006 11:55:27 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley learned to do this their first year at Hogwarts.


6 posted on 11/30/2006 11:56:30 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Spork weasels ain't afraid of nuthin' but running out of sardines.)
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To: edcoil

Coral Castle too, more recently.


7 posted on 11/30/2006 11:57:05 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: edcoil

Calypso Louie says the pyramids were built with flying machines, invented by black people from the mothership.......


8 posted on 11/30/2006 11:57:28 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

I levitate my wife's Shih Tzu when the dang thing keeps barking.....


9 posted on 11/30/2006 11:58:58 AM PST by nevergore (?It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.?)
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To: ColdSteelTalon
I can levitate many things. Ping pong balls, feathers, food and drinks to my moth when I need to... ;)


10 posted on 11/30/2006 11:59:23 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Any fans of Don Herbert ("Dune") out there?


11 posted on 11/30/2006 11:59:55 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Reminds me of the "squirrel launcher" video clip


12 posted on 11/30/2006 12:00:28 PM PST by Squidpup
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To: FLOutdoorsman
Nothing really new, Nasa has been doing this for years.

Heck, I was doing it with Estes rockets in the early 70's.

13 posted on 11/30/2006 12:01:08 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: FLOutdoorsman

Didn't Richard Gere or Liberace use one of these things on a hamster?


14 posted on 11/30/2006 12:01:41 PM PST by Inwoodian
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To: FLOutdoorsman
Scientists have now levitated small live animals using sounds that are, well, uplifting.

I used to levitate when I listened to Pink Floyd. ;)

15 posted on 11/30/2006 12:03:02 PM PST by Kenton
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To: Inwoodian
I actually was thinking Richard Gere would have been mentioned in less than 10 posts..Geeze FReepers slacking today.
16 posted on 11/30/2006 12:03:54 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman (One man with courage is a majority.)
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To: CholeraJoe

Richard Gere just makes small animals disappear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpW-5BzQRr8


17 posted on 11/30/2006 12:04:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: ASOC

***So, these guys are working on Universal Solvent?***

For heaven's sake don't drop any on the floor!


18 posted on 11/30/2006 12:04:31 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ColdSteelTalon

"I can levitate many things ... food and drinks to my moth when I need to"

Just train it to land, no need for fancy levitation, lol.


19 posted on 11/30/2006 12:04:35 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: dangus
Any fans of Don Herbert ("Dune") out there?

It's Frank Herbert, and that involved spice and the folding of space.

20 posted on 11/30/2006 12:05:22 PM PST by DejaJude
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