Video: Supercooled Quantum Levitating Hoverboard Lets Students Glide on Air

I see somewhat cheap, very efficient travel in the near future.

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maybe this is the begging of our own UFO like crafts................. maybe

wow......

Maglev trains, not just for secret governments anymore

Ah, the elements of a Star Gate are coming together, good, good, ringing my hands round and round!

Once we perfect wormhole technology and have one of these on the moon and mars, we can own them both. Building a space colony will be so easy, bra-ha-haaa!

@Q: indeed

Nice, so the hoverboard might be around by 2015? Awesome. Now, to work on those 14 Jaws movies.

excuse me but wtf bother with the moon if we could use stargates? ferget about the moon putone on a asteroid mine the crap out of it rinse and repeat

the moons preety useless if u have a gate imo except if u only need so much gravity for experimeents or want to store something for eternity

@rridgway I was thinking the same thing… With the exception of jaw movies and popular culture, we seem to be moving in that direction.

I would actually like to see if they tested the disc to see if it's still under the effects of gravity in that state.

Can one of the ufos be pinched on Earth's magnetic field?

WOW-zers!

Those have been around for a long time. Don't you remember the one Michael J. Fox used in Back To The Future?

you just gotta love science. awesome. those women were hot.

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First auto-lace Nike's and now hover board technology? It looks like my Christmas wish list from 1989 might actually get here!

Seems that this would have a lot of uses for space work. Quantum locking two objects in space would be similar to using a tractor beam. Or an object locked to a space craft could be moved to interpose itself between the craft and space debris, a sort of mobile shielding.

This seems so useful there must be some restrictions as to when and where quantum locking can be applied.

@ALH

Just give it a rest.

@TruthIsMyName

It starts with the hoverboard. Then comes the hovercar.

@Q and quseio2

Stargates would not work on the moon or Mars. The principle concept of a stargate utilizes a dialing mechanism that takes the stars into account. Each of the 39 symbols on a stargate represents a constellation as viewed from the planet it resides on. To pin point an exact location, the six constellations used in an address must geographically coincide with a point in 3 dimentional space contained by all of the constellations (the seventh symbol obviously being the point of origin symbol for a given planet).

A stargates in close proximity (i.e. one on Earth the other on another world in this system) wouldn't work on any world within this solar system because the relative make up of constellations as viewed from this region of space would be the same. You wouldn't be able to reach the moon with a stargate because you'd cosmically be traveling to the same place you're already standing.

A teleportation device that operates on a shorter range (and not based on astro-nav) would be more appropriate. Think "Paradise Lost:" Season 6 SG-1.

@pheonix1012
You are correct. Two gates in the same system, only one can operate. In inter-system transporting, the Ancients recommend using an obelisk - See SG1 "Paradise Lost" (gateworld.net/sg1/s6/615.shtml) for instructions.

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This could be very useful as a low friction guidance method for space elevators.

pheonix1012,

Thanks for the most important tips. Of course you know, I was just wishful fantasizing about having a Star Gate. Thanks for putting dirt in my chocolate milk, sheesh.

GMarsack, pheonix1012, though teleportation does sound good too. So which one of you two will try it first?

@phoenix1012….give what a rest? Never heard of MagLev trains before? Look it up and look up Deep Underground Military Bases while you are at it. Not saying they are real, but the info is out there and a lot of people say they are real. But I find you’re comment hilarious coming from someone who thinks SG-1 is real and who is talking about stargates on an article about magnetic levitation. This is nothing new, this technology has been around for 24 years at least…they are just now letting students play with it.

@Aldrons Last Hope

you are right. i heard that the government has test subjects underground that are being forced to live there. they have tried to revolt and break out but are always stopped. remember the "Earthquake" that rocked the East-coast? that was them detonating a bomb.

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bdotalex - Yes it is still the effects of gravity - in the video where they have two discs the magnetic rail is tilted and the discs swing back and forth like pendulums.

Correction: the second video states that it allows for frictionless movement which is false, even in a complete vacuum it would slow down due to the quantum bindings. Friction is always a factor with anything made of matter.

I do find it fasinating however, do we have a way to keep it cooled for large spans of time or is the liquid nitrogen approach as far as we've come?

Wow, if this can support Maglev trains, then hover boards should be no problem!

@new

"GMarsack, pheonix1012, though teleportation does sound good too. So which one of you two will try it first?"

It's already been tried. Don't you remember Brundlefly?