Andy from the Royal Institute recreates one of his favourite demonstrations from the 2012 RI Christmas lectures: a suspended track made from 2000 powerful rare earth magnets formed into a Möbius strip around which a levitating superconductor travels, floating both above and below the track.
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Wipeout 2012
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A practical use for quantum levitation – a fancy Scaletrix set!
Thanks Skutch!
A man-witch from the Superconductivity Group at Tel Aviv University will now demonstrate the plaything of Satan that is a quantum superconductor locked in a magnetic field.