ZeroN

What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element that floats and moves in space by computer-controlled magnetic levitation.

http://media.mit.edu/~jinhalee/zeron

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  Science & Technology

[MrTronikito]

0:38 bruce lee was there, be water my friend

[Alexander Grigorenko]

Magnetic Levitation! COOL!

[FreeMumin]

bruce lee's secret son

[Naman Thakar]

how many zerons can you have in the same space?

[aymon619]

what a mind <3

[yaboobe]

Coolest thing I've seen in a while!

[plasma force]

if using this technology toward making working robots without the need to repairing them

[h4rv3st]

pretty cool.. just don't t get your pacemaker too close ;)

[TheRealVerbz]

@ 1:35, it does NOT confirm Kepler's "Rule". (not law)

The prop you're using as the "sun" is "stationary."

But the Sun is moving in a helical trajectory through space.

So how can a stationary Sun in a man made set up accurately represent Phi Spiraling reality in space with angular velocity?

The prop in your set up would need to be able to sink down the post it's attached to.

Then the planet would attempt to follow in the wake on the Z axis, DISPROVING Kepler's 2D "law."

watch?v=tJ_CPGV9SeQ

[TheRealVerbz]

"Confirms Kepler's Law?!?" O_o

They need to take the same equipment and conduct the experiment WHILE it's falling from an airplane.

They'll see it behaves a bit differently in Reality.

Reality meaning, traveling on a Z axis.

There are no circular orbits on 1 plane.

Their entire experimental platform is "stationary".

But nothing is stationary in space.

Have you ever seen 2 rising bubbles orbit each other on a flat plane?

Or 2 sinking rocks orbit a stationary fulcrum?

Nope. Why? Angular Velocity.

[KhReKK09]

You guys are awesome, I want to go to MIT, but seeing what MIT students have done, I feel like I'm just a bush which is taller than all that grass, but then there are giant trees (MIT) T_T

[lbd210]

150 lb person = 68.0385kg

68.0385kg will have 667.457685N of force exerted by gravity

ZeroN withstands 0.18lbf of resistance (0.80064N)

Attach 833.6551821043165 ZeroN's to a 150lb person

Fly wherever you want!