{"id":113292,"date":"2020-09-22T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/levitating-superconductor-on-a-mobius-strip"},"modified":"2020-09-27T00:21:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:21:50","slug":"levitating-superconductor-on-a-mobius-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/levitating-superconductor-on-a-mobius-strip","title":{"rendered":"Levitating Superconductor on a M\u00f6bius strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPqEEZa2Gis?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Andy takes a closer look at one of his favourite demos from the 2012 Christmas Lectures, bringing together a levitating superconductor and a bewildering M\u00f6bius strip made from over 2,000 magnets.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d love it if you helped us translate this video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timedtext_video?v=zPqEEZa2Gis\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timedtext_video?v=zPqEEZa2Gis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As his super-conducting boat whizzes along the track, Andy demonstrates the remarkable properties of the superconducting material (Yttrium barium copper oxide) which allows it to seemingly float both above and below the track.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for regular science videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/RiSubscRibe\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/RiSubscRibe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ri is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ri_science\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/ri_science<\/a><br \/> and Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/royalinstitution\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/royalinstitution<\/a><br \/> and Tumblr: <a href=\"http:\/\/ri-science.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/ri-science.tumblr.com\/<\/a><br \/> Our editorial policy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rigb.org\/home\/editorial-policy\">http:\/\/www.rigb.org\/home\/editorial-policy<\/a><br \/> Subscribe for the latest science videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/RiNewsletter\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/RiNewsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy takes a closer look at one of his favourite demos from the 2012 Christmas Lectures, bringing together a levitating superconductor and a bewildering M\u00f6bius strip made from over 2,000 magnets. We\u2019d love it if you helped us translate this video: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/timedtext_video?v=zPqEEZa2Gis As his super-conducting boat whizzes along the track, Andy demonstrates the remarkable properties [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113292","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113485,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113292\/revisions\/113485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}