{"id":75505,"date":"2018-01-22T23:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/this-breakthrough-in-tractor-beam-tech-could-pave-the-way-to-levitating-humans"},"modified":"2018-01-22T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:42:31","slug":"this-breakthrough-in-tractor-beam-tech-could-pave-the-way-to-levitating-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/this-breakthrough-in-tractor-beam-tech-could-pave-the-way-to-levitating-humans","title":{"rendered":"This Breakthrough in Tractor Beam Tech Could Pave The Way to Levitating Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-breakthrough-in-tractor-beam-tech-could-pave-the-way-to-levitating-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a sci-fi feeling first, engineers at the University of Bristol used the world\u2019s most powerful acoustic tractor beam to demonstrate that it\u2019s possible to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-01\/uob-twm011918.php\"> stably contain objects larger than the wavelength of sound.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other words, they were able to levitate objects notably larger than what\u2019s ever been possible before; a feat that theoretically opens up the potential of one day <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-star-trek-tractor-beam-moves-objects-light\/\">levitating humans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/videos\/this-real-life-tractor-beam-can-levitate-objects-using-sound\/\">Acoustic tractor beams use sound<\/a>, or more specifically soundwaves, to hold particles in mid-air. While magnetic levitation also exists, acoustic levitation tends to work better for handling liquids and solids.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-world-s-most-powerful-acoustic-tractor-beam-is-paving-the-way-to-levitating-humans\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-world-s-most-powerful-acoust...ing-humans<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sci-fi feeling first, engineers at the University of Bristol used the world\u2019s most powerful acoustic tractor beam to demonstrate that it\u2019s possible to stably contain objects larger than the wavelength of sound. In other words, they were able to levitate objects notably larger than what\u2019s ever been possible before; a feat that theoretically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-tractor-beam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75505","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}