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 liquidiridium 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.
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I can levitate many things. Ping pong balls, feathers, food and drinks to my moth when I need to... ;)
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?
Anti gravity? Or reverse it and have artificial gravity?
Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley learned to do this their first year at Hogwarts.
Coral Castle too, more recently.
Calypso Louie says the pyramids were built with flying machines, invented by black people from the mothership.......
I levitate my wife's Shih Tzu when the dang thing keeps barking.....
Any fans of Don Herbert ("Dune") out there?
Reminds me of the "squirrel launcher" video clip
Heck, I was doing it with Estes rockets in the early 70's.
Didn't Richard Gere or Liberace use one of these things on a hamster?
I used to levitate when I listened to Pink Floyd. ;)
Richard Gere just makes small animals disappear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpW-5BzQRr8
***So, these guys are working on Universal Solvent?***
For heaven's sake don't drop any on the floor!
"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.
It's Frank Herbert, and that involved spice and the folding of space.
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