Quantum Levitation Demonstration at North Museum
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Uploaded by lancasteronline on Dec 23, 2011
The North Museum of Natural History & Science previews its newest attraction: a quantum levitator.
It's a circular track of magnets above which a razor-thin disc magically levitates, seeming to defy the laws of physics.
Purchased for about $7,000 from Tel-Aviv University, the levitator is believed to be the only one of its kind in a United States museum.
The key to the levitator is the disc, which is made of superconducting material sandwiched between layers of gold and sapphire crystal. A piece of foam is placed on top and held in place with household plastic wrap. The disc is then dipped into a brew of liquid nitrogen (temperature: minus-300 degrees Fahrenheit).
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All I was thinking, while watching this was "HOVERBOARD!!!!"
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0:36 Tel Aviv University!
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all I can hear are speeder bikes
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don't turn a -196 C magnet upside down over your bare hand, museum guy!
1 week ago 5
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MY MIND!!!
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Three years, nerds. Don't forget the Pit Bull too.
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OMG!!! HOVER BOARDSSS!!!!
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so that is why anunaki wanted all the gold....
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Aliens.
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I have the most appropriate boner right now.
1 week ago 6
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PunchKickCombo 1 month ago 54
he has some huge hands
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