Science is Cool: Hovering Disk "Locked" in Mid-Air

I'm not even going to pretend to understand how this works, or why the scientist dude isn't flash-freezing his fingers on the liquid nitrogen-soaked puck. But it's nifty, I'll give 'em that! Thanks again to Stupid Monkey Planet for helping keep things interesting around here!

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Cool Party Trick: Frozen Puck Hovers in Mid-Air



Researchers at the school of physics and astronomy at Tel Aviv University have created a track around which a superconductor can float, thanks to the phenomenon of “quantum levitation“. . .


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