Monday, June 25, 2012

Negative radiation pressure in light could make some tractor beams real, we're already sucked in

Negative radiation pressure in light could make some tractor beams real, we're already sucked in

Developing a real, working tractor beam has regularly been an exercise in frustration: it often relies on brute force attempts to induce a magnetic link or an air pressure gap, either of which falls a bit short of science fiction-level elegance. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's use the subtler (though not entirely movie-like) concept of negative radiation pressure in light to move objects.

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