Ya just never know....remember the 2nd(?) Back to The Future? Remember the 'floating" scate board? That was real technology at the time. This seems very close to the same, just updated..?
But it runs into similar issues that the hover board had. It is dangerous on a large scale. I noticed one of the comments mentioning transport. If he can easily move it and it will "lock" at the last placed point relative to the superconductor, what is to keep a bird, rock, or other projectile from throwing this out of its "orbit?" Orbit was my word because that is the only thing I can think of close enough. Orbit in this sense would refer to the area the semiconductor affects. Once this is out of orbit it is no longer locked in space and can fall. This could also go careening off course. The only way to keep it safe would be a totally enclosed space, which would be too expensive on a large scale. Definitely the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing.
I think it would be a matter of being able to lock and unlock it as desired. That would allow the height and angle to be gyroscopically compensated to prevent an outside force from being able to impact it too greatly. It doesn't differ much from current Magnetic Levitation technology used in high speed trains.
I don't really understand how it works, but there is one thing that makes it different from Magnetic Levitation and that is the "lock" feature. Magnetic levitation is balance thing, a balance between magnetic upforce and gravitational downforce. That's way it will not work up side down or sideways. This Quantum Levitation is not a balance and therefore can even be at different levels. Also, it is not disturb by another disc which I found really cool.
Yeah KK, that was real time technology used in the movie, no BS The "real" in the movie though was when he first jumped on it and did a kinda slow straight line. The board floated on a straight track about 2' wide but all you could do was a staight line. The rest of the movie was just that haollywood tricks. Expo86 in Vancouver BC, it was demontraited there, As a teen it was pritty mind blowing for me and my friends. This is a, again newer updated vertion...this is real! http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81770588/ http://technabob.com/blog/2010/05/28/back-to-the-future-hoverboard/
Although I don't want to defy what you are saying, Tedy, I have some serious doubts about this hoverboard. I mean, it almost sounds plausible saying it has an electromagnetic system build in, but that is of course no real explanation. Floating at a very specific height from the ground it implies to have a relation with it (and not with gravity) and that at a changing underground of rocks or wood or asphalt seems strange. I still hope it does exist though, I always wanted one!
Not to sound like I am an AM radio conspiracy nut (though I guess I kinda am) but the technology for the hoverboard and the like is real, it is out there... It is just restricted because it is still being studied for governmental and militaristic uses. Yes one could make one using electromagnetic force but as mentioned it would need a track to follow and the same is to be said about the quantum lock "technique" we saw in the beginning of this thread. One concept I heard tell of was to use one sensitive enough to work in relation to the earths electromagnetic field with the help of sensors and frequency and output modulators. Otherwise, the only way we could do it, that I can currently think of, would be to use quantum attraction and reverse it and even then we would have to have a means by which that repulsion force can be [greatly] amplified to become a sort of propulsion force... [All this assuming I can remember my facts correctly and in order.] http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ulf/levitation.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG71U
Here are some guys in France showing how to make your own hoverboard on a track. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/uproxx/gammasquad/~3/sthiZt9wWt4/hoverboards-are-real-effing-sweet-videos
