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Science = Amazing = Always – Levitation using Cooled Superconductors

Science = Amazing = Always. What do you get when you combined high powered magnets with superconductors that are cooled down using liquid nitrogen? Levitation!

Scientists however, have also developed a room-temperature superconductor, allowing you to easily build your own metamaterial superconductor and easily keep it controlled.

The new age of science! Redefining physics daily!

I can’t wait to see if the studies in anti-matter pay off (ie, at the underground labs in South Dakota). It won’t be long until we find ourselves in space (hopefully).

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Comments (212)

  1. 333oaktree

    I understood the explanation for the reason why the gravity is “canceled”
    but what determines the distance between the magnetic field source and the
    superconductor?

  2. mark strudwick

    Roller coasters should be designed by this

  3. mrzack888

    i dont believe this. it’s sorcery at work here.

  4. Eike Mücke

    Are the permanent magnets orientated along the same direction or are the
    outer magnets inverted compared to the middle ones?

  5. KrisHoshi

    The energy needed to cool off the magnet is very high. If [future] hover
    cars require this energy, it would be like buying gasoline.
    Just that, instead of gasoline, we would buy liquid nitrogen at our
    liquid-nitrogen stations xD And would require a super freezer on our
    vehicles, and not to mention that our roads would be magnetized, meaning
    they would need to be covered so that people with metal objects such as
    watches or steel shoes lol would not get stuck there. Also would we lose
    the ability to steer? Dangerous. I believe this idea in the real world
    would work super great on one-way subway trains. I cant imagine a world
    where all the roads in the world become reconstructed. I do, however,
    imagine a world where new roads (above or below ground) are created to
    facilitate the new technology, like creating a single road that goes all
    around USA, but not all the roads. I will shut up now :p

  6. Giuseppe Forte

    #LevitatingDoodle

  7. Jose Elvir

    Levitación magnética por superconductividad

  8. JUAN PABLO DE MARIA KEYMER HEVIA

    Hey guys, I’m from Chile and I’m planing to make my own superconductive
    train. I was wondering if you have an e-mail to contact you, I have some
    questions and I’m sure you can help me. I would apreciate if you can help
    me.Thanks

  9. Panlew2

    I just got an awesome idea: Space Rollercoasters

  10. Sierox

    OK… Maybe NOT fuck physics anymore…

  11. Dom Brazzale

    OH. MY. SCIENCE. !

  12. Безнесс Идеи
  13. Nigel P.

    Can you push it once and stop fucking touching it for a second? I want to
    see how far it will go.

  14. Nigel P.

    Also, straighten out your tongue and spit so you can talk right.

  15. Michaelangelo Parkingman

    Inspiration for Mario kart 8 😀

  16. stefan noordhoek

    Nu we toch in de ‘hoe-werkt-dat-eigenlijk’ modus zitten: iets meer
    iets-minder-onbegrijpelijks over supergeleiders. #mobiusalert

  17. Boyd Smith

    So, looks like “Quantum Levitation” is making the rounds around the
    Internet again. If this is the first time to hear about it,
    congratulations, you are one of the lucky 10k (https://xkcd.com/1053/).

    But, “Quantum Levitation” is best called Quantum *Locking* or anti-Meissner
    Superconducting Locking. It generates a force that resists both movement
    away from the magnet and movement toward the magnet, allowing it to
    “levitate” things both above, below, and to-the-side of the track, at the
    same time.

    In addition to this video, also check out the Japanese researchers
    duplicating a “Wipeout” track using quantum locking including 90 degree
    embanked loops.

  18. Cuthbert Nibbles

    Clearly fake. Watch at 8:32, you can see a white border around the
    “hovering” boat.

  19. Mindraker1

    Easier said than done. Neodymium isn’t cheap. Trying to build a railroad
    track from Los Angeles to New York with that stuff would cost a LOT.

  20. Manickavasagam Shanmugam Annamalai

  21. MirceaKitsune

    Thumbs up if watching this made you think of what trains and cars would
    have been like in a world where the temperature would allow such
    superconductors to work everywhere.

  22. overTIMe

    Couldn’t this technology (refined of course) be used for trains? Or do
    those super-fast-ones already work like that?

  23. Connor

    Is this what Mario Kart 8’s antigravity mechanic is based on?

  24. Lolita Heaven

    omg in 6:02 doesn’t the liquid nitrogen drip on his hand?? that’s totally
    crazy to interact with liq. Nit. with no temperature gloves.

  25. Robert Schlie

    This is very cool, literally, lol. But honestly when would any of this be
    usable in the real world and how would it be feasible in a world where
    everyone thinks everything is bad or bad for you. The general public is a
    very ignorant bunch and politicians and corporations feed off of that.
    Point, this video is 2 years old and nothing has been done to bring this to
    the public.

  26. NathanTruaxMusic

    swreeeeeeet vid

  27. eatRICE00

    How long did it last with liquid nitrogen in the reservoir?

  28. M Don

    Hi there. in the diagrams with the copper pipe will the induced field not
    be a south pole to repel the magnet as moves down the pipe. opposing the
    motion of the magnet

  29. 李奕銘

    小小科普

  30. Nikolai

    could you focus the camera more in the magnet and less in your face,
    please? i wanted to see more.

  31. John Macard

    Im sorry but every time he said an “sh” or a “ch” sound i couldnt stop
    laughing xD Stereotypical “nerd” pronunciation hahahaha (no offence to
    Andy, really good explanation i just find his “accent” if you will really
    funny xD)

  32. Areku Porce

    Genius…. virgin… but genius…

  33. Saurabh Banerjee

    Fascinating!

  34. Rayan Agarm

    Why no leak out the LN

  35. Steven Qiu

    “about -180 degrees” Celsius? Fahrenheit? 273.15C – 180C = 93.15K,
    (5/9)*(180F+32F)= 82.2…C, 273.15C + (82.2C) = 355.35K…
    so… 93.15 degrees Kelvin or 355.35 degrees Kelvin?

  36. Alen Coffell

    To bad the concept of electrical existence I never explained when
    discussing super conductivity………

  37. K.P. Bishnoi

    Where did you get Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide,
    Even I want to do this experiment for my school project.
    I live in india.

  38. Husam Said

    I ask If I touched nitrogen liquid with my fingers !? 😀
    what will happen ?!

  39. ZTEiffel65

    Speech impediment was distracting.

  40. Octavian Augustus

    Hmm, looks like cheating.

  41. inceptional

    Now that is cool.

    Someone needs to make a real world F-Zero track that works a bit like this
    😮

  42. James A Clouder

    Now, I want to see a levitating superconductor on a Klein bottle, is it
    possible to make that happen?

  43. roshan karkala

    try it once

  44. Hawokki

    How can someone dislike this? Probably by accident

  45. greentg10

    it’s truly a crime that there aren’t toys of this meant for kids

  46. Matthew Geier

    A nice demo of superconducting maglev.

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