Quantum Levitation Demonstration at North Museum

The North Museum of Natural History & Science in Lancaster, PA 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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[ThePhantomKing]

I've been playing too much Bioshock Infinite to be here.

[EyeGore22]

This is the beginning for making F-Zero a reality!!!



[Peter Sitterly]

If you could somehow keep it cold enough.

[JJ ceo]

Me want.

[rtron2012]

and its refferred to a minimal quanta of energy ...not so much with levitation and magnetism

[rtron2012]

QUANTUM does it cost? hahahahahahaah

[rtron2012]

Quantum is the magik insignificant word oh this decennium .... the last 30 years the vogue word of science whas ATOMIC now they use to say quantum ....quantum ...

but quantum is only a name of a theory ...

[Joe Blow]

If you did that in a vacuum, would that be perpetual motion?

[Keletho]

stolen idea from the first quantum levitation

[elexene]

Wipeout the game comes to mind... One day...One day...

[WikiPeoples]

I tip my hat with respect, to the women and men working on this.