{"id":9721,"date":"2014-01-03T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2014-01-03T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:12:41","slug":"acoustic-levitation-how-sound-can-get-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/acoustic-levitation-how-sound-can-get-physical","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic levitation: how sound can get physical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Richard Gray\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/richard-gray\/\" rel=\"author\"> Richard Gray<\/a> \u2014 The Telegraph<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation [Acoustic Levitation] (2014-)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/odJxJRAxdFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p>Imagine how much easier life would be if it was possible to levitate objects. Maglev trains, for example, use powerful magnets to repel the carriages and remove the friction of the train on the tracks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p>But magnets are just one way of achieving this \u2013 and they require the object to have a repelling magnetic force. Now scientists in Japan have shown that a similar effect can be achieved with sound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/good-to-share\/10546819\/Acoustic-levitation-how-sound-can-get-physical.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Gray \u2014 The Telegraph Imagine how much easier life would be if it was possible to levitate objects. Maglev trains, for example, use powerful magnets to repel the carriages and remove the friction of the train on the tracks. But magnets are just one way of achieving this \u2013 and they require the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}