Wow! When my eyes laid upon this video, I was shocked. Levitation, something that has been attempted by magicians, something that we associate with cars in the future, an act that I wish I could do. Among the explanation in the back, the narrator of the video explains something along the lines of magnetism. He calls it quantum locking/trapping, that keeps the item locked in the magnetic field since it is so cold. It makes me ponder the idea of making a cool magnetic suit that somehow keeps us warm while keeping the suit cold and being able to transport ourselves from place to place via hovering. How cool would that be?! This video would be an example of the technology of the future. Although it is a discovery of the present, I felt the video was appropriate because it shows where the future can be. Even though this is not a video that depicts the future, it deals with a technology problem.
The purpose of the work, is essentially to show off the strides that quantum mechanics has made. They use a variety of examples of magnets to show off this new idea of quantum locking. In essence this blog would be a backwards blog, this is an example of the present revealing features of the future. Questions come abound as to how this concept can be put to a bigger scale though. How could this idea be put to actual use? Can people use them to levitate? Can we transport items using this method perhaps? Would air traffic be more busy? Would everybody have access to have the ability to levitate? It all goes back to wondering how the idea would be put to use. The many questions that come about definitely put this in a work in progress category. There are many ideas to be made, failed, failed again, and eventually succeeded. Hopefully we will see this physics sometime in the near future with items that we can actually use.
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