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Title: cool quantum levitation
Post by: bear on January 04, 2012, 11:13:18 AM
Title: Re: cool quuantum levitation
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on January 04, 2012, 12:28:24 PM
Now that is cool  :bow: Next thing is to fit the missiles :yarr:
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Post by: XEntity on January 04, 2012, 12:36:48 PM
No next thing is to attach it to my car!  :ptu:
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Post by: Quixoticish on January 04, 2012, 21:41:39 PM
This is fake isn't it? Just a viral ad for Wipeout?

Edit : After actually watching it I can see that of course it's fake.
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: DEViANCE on January 04, 2012, 22:52:11 PM
Quote from: Quixoticish on January 04, 2012, 21:41:39 PM
This is fake isn't it? Just a viral ad for Wipeout?

Edit : After actually watching it I can see that of course it's fake.

I thought it was real, I've seen the same done with metal discs.
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: bear on January 04, 2012, 23:12:11 PM


http://www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html
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Post by: bear on January 04, 2012, 23:17:35 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2082201/Does-YouTube-film-Wipeout-cars-quantum-levitation.html
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: zpyder on January 05, 2012, 07:44:03 AM
I think it's a fake using the premise of new technology. I could be wrong, but I just don't get how the cars are so precisely controlled. Sure magnets could stop them from bouncing into the walls, but they stay in their lane pretty much all the time. And the video looks too well done...
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Post by: knighty on January 05, 2012, 09:29:55 AM
it's the mist/steam/fog/whatever you call it coming off the cars that looks fake to me....

and the way they cool them looks a bit iffy too !
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: zpyder on January 05, 2012, 19:08:04 PM
Well if they cooled the ceramics using liquid nitrogen, and had a liquid nitrogen tank, they would need some kind of gas outlet as the liquid nitrogen warmed up and evaporated it would expand to 174 times its volume, leaving that vapour trail. It does look too cosmetic though...
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: knighty on January 06, 2012, 01:49:21 AM
yes...but

it should (pretty much) constantly emit the same amount of mist... no matter the speed it travels at....

so when it goes faster the trail should be thinner because it's the same amount of mist spread over more area

but it doesn't... it looks to stay the same or maybe even get a bit thicker :o
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: neXus on January 06, 2012, 07:06:32 AM
I posted this ages ago and no one took any notice :( it is cool progress but meaningless still. As soon as they prove and start looking at the nex Bosan they can start to unlock the fabric of gravity and one you know a thing you can control a thing.
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: zpyder on January 06, 2012, 08:11:54 AM
Quote from: knighty on January 06, 2012, 01:49:21 AM
yes...but

it should (pretty much) constantly emit the same amount of mist... no matter the speed it travels at....

so when it goes faster the trail should be thinner because it's the same amount of mist spread over more area

but it doesn't... it looks to stay the same or maybe even get a bit thicker :o

I guess depending on where the tank is, by speeding up the rate of evaporation will change too as the air will warm the models enough to boil more nitrogen off. Liquid nitrogen is crazy in terms of how cold it is and how it boils off. I still think the video is fake though...
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Post by: Quixoticish on January 06, 2012, 09:49:18 AM
YOU CAN TELL FROM THE PIXELS  :tinhat:
Title: Re: cool quantum levitation
Post by: Serious on January 07, 2012, 11:41:56 AM
Looks good but the cost would be huge to implement even if the technology has got anywhere near that stage.

I agree that the video looks suspicious, especially connected to a game. We would also have heard more about it than this after the time it's been out.

Then there is...

Note: NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED in this video.
(C) Copyright! All rights reserved belong to Sony Entertainment and SCE Studio Liverpool.

They give reference to copyright but don't state what that copyright is.

QuoteContact us : ryuutanaka.quantumproject@gmail.com

So it's a Japanese lab but they use gmail rather than their own server?

This is genuine and much earlier...