{"id":101537,"date":"2020-01-28T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T05:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/how-to-levitate-objects-with-sound-and-break-your-mind"},"modified":"2020-01-28T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T05:42:44","slug":"how-to-levitate-objects-with-sound-and-break-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/how-to-levitate-objects-with-sound-and-break-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"How to Levitate Objects With Sound (and Break Your Mind)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-levitate-objects-with-sound-and-break-your-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with personal jetpacks for every man, woman, and child (sure, why not), levitation is one of those conveniences that sci-fi has long promised us but has yet to deliver, other than <a class=\"\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/how-maglev-works\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">magnetically levitating trains<\/a>. But at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, physicist Chris Benmore and his colleagues are levitating objects with an unlikely tool: sound. It\u2019s called acoustic levitation, and after breaking your brain with what seems to be an optical illusion, it\u2019s poised to deliver advances in pharmacology, chemistry more broadly, and even robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with personal jetpacks for every man, woman, and child (sure, why not), levitation is one of those conveniences that sci-fi has long promised us but has yet to deliver, other than magnetically levitating trains. But at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, physicist Chris Benmore and his colleagues are levitating objects with an unlikely tool: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}