Star Trek Tractor Beams - Fact or Fictional

Veronica talks to Dr. Tomas Cizmar from the University of St. Andrews
about tractor beam technology.Dr Cizmar is currently developing a miniature version of a tractor beam together with his colleagues from the Institute of Scientific
Instruments in the Czech Republic. Don't worry, you won't be beamed by aliens anytime soon... well, we hope not!

Read more on tractor beam technology:

Star Trek's 'tractor' beam created in miniature by researchers
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-star-tre...

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[KrK6EST9]

U can usi it on starship scales too.. jou heard anything aboat Gravitons ? ;) just ned to focus them in a line and hold them in place.. That's all folks ;)

[thirsten55]

BFM! KCCO

[ButterflyChristie]

If we can use tractor beams to pick up the remote, will there be a tractor beam for the tractor beam remote? Will it turn into a never ending cycle? These are need to know details! lol

[FluffyKittenofMordor]

Fittingly, this week's news about the existence of the god particle ties in with space-related stuff. Large-scale tractor beam might just work billions of years from now in the properties of this secondary universe...

[FluffyKittenofMordor]

V, you gotta wear your awesome glasses when you do FoF! It makes you that much more credible in your geeky lady lair! Hm, quick search revealed Murray and tractors do go together haha.

[Dave Friedel]

Light isn't where it will come true. Gravity and magnetism? Maybe. ;)

[Dave Friedel]

I'm tractor beaming a donut right now. Boooewwwwwmmmmgulp.

[CosmicGM]

Somewhere Wesley Crusher softly weeps for what might have been.

[TheCodefinder]

I thought thus was going to be about GPS technology in agriculture... Being a farmer myself, it'd be neat if you did a segment about it sometime to show non-farming viewers about how computers and tech is being used in the Ag industry through products like John Deere's Greenstar products.

[MrBillwulf]

It seems as if the need for huge amounts of energy is what holds back the large-scale use of a lot of science fiction technologies.