{"id":171529,"date":"2023-09-07T13:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/meet-chinas-new-force-gun-that-can-move-things-from-afar"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:25:52","slug":"meet-chinas-new-force-gun-that-can-move-things-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/meet-chinas-new-force-gun-that-can-move-things-from-afar","title":{"rendered":"Meet China\u2019s new \u2018Force\u2019 gun that can move things from afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-chinas-new-force-gun-that-can-move-things-from-afar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists have apparently developed a new kind of magnetized coaxial gun that can generate magnetized plasma rings to move stuff at a distance without physical contact.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists are working on a device that uses plasma rings to move objects at a distance. Touted as possibly being used for contactless satellite recovery, delivery, or space object deflection, the team behind the program is confident the device would work in principle, the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p>Likened to the \u201cJedi\u201d abilities of \u2018Force Push\u2019 and \u2018Force Pull\u2019 in the science fiction franchise \u2018Star Wars\u2019 (though possibly closer in concept to an actual \u2018tractor beam\u2019), the device could prove revolutionary for many industries if proven viable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have apparently developed a new kind of magnetized coaxial gun that can generate magnetized plasma rings to move stuff at a distance without physical contact. Chinese scientists are working on a device that uses plasma rings to move objects at a distance. Touted as possibly being used for contactless satellite recovery, delivery, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-tractor-beam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171529","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}