Tractor Beam: Andrei Rhode Shocker

An amazing invention in Australia, as a researcher worked with a group of students to create a real-life tractor beam, bringing the famous Star Trek technology into real life.

They are not able to beam us up to their spaceship just yet, but they were able to move tiny tiny particles a short distance using a light beam. The laser beam made the tiny particles move a tiny distance, but it's stil a huge advancement in science, and who knows where it will lead! Probably to some extra space-age fees when we go to the airport, to beam our luggage up.

Tractor Beam: Andrei Rhode Shocker
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AUSTRALIAN students have invented a tractor beam. FOX News reports that students from the Australian National University have succeeded in moving particles a metre-and-a-half using only the power of light. Very tiny particles, admittedly, but particles nonetheless. ANU researcher Andrei Rhode said the device shines a hollow laser beam around tiny glass particles. The laser heats the area around the particles, but the particles stay cool and start drifting. When they stray near the hot laser beam, they get nudged back into the centre by the heated molecules bouncing around. More heat is introduced under and off to the sides of the particles and gently forces them up the hollow laser tube.

Tractor Beam: Andrei Rhode Shocker