Waiting endlessly in non-moving traffic, don’t you just wish your car could just take off and fly over the road? Imagine if you could just turn on a switch and rescue yourself from the frustrating static position in the traffic. I’m sure this thought may have crossed your mind number of times.
Traffic jams are the bane of any commuter. Many of us spend quarter of our lives in traffic without even realizing it. We can’t do much about the growing population but what can certainly be done is creating advanced transportation solutions.
And one solution is to create a new type of transportation that doesn't rely on roads. To do this, we must look to the sky. Humanity has always been fascinated with anti-gravity technology and it has been fairly successful in grasping the same. The dream of flying in the floating cars like The Jetsons is one of the oldest dreams that was only possible in the science fiction movies until now and uou've probably heard promises about flying cars before but the technology to make them safe and easy to fly may finally be here.
A group of researchers have unveiled a demonstration that makes such a reality seem stunningly close.
A successful Experiment for the Flying car mechanisms
Researchers from Tel-Aviv University recently showed off their Quantum Levitation project at the ASTC Annual Conference, and the performance is simply tantalizing.
The Researchers are studying superconductivity, a process whereby a material is able to conduct electricity without any resistance, resulting in no energy loss. The superconducting material expels a magnetic field from within.
Quantum_Levitation has taken advantage of this principle – though has to work with -185 C cooled materials that are almost wafer thin to levitate, but levitate it does successfully.
The group coated a thin superconductor layer on a sapphire wafer which is then penetrated by discrete flux tubes. The superconductor strongly pins these tubes, allowing the wafer to float, or achieve “quantum levitation. ”
The coolest part of the demo is when the wafer is set on a track and propelled smoothly around it, floating in midair, while mist trails behind it! You can check out the video of the demo below.
Presently a parlor trick, it’s a promising step forward to get a better understanding of the mechanisms required to make a car fly!
Sincerely hoping this experiment works, I would just like to echo what one of the comic strip characters rightly sings, “I love ya, flying cars, you’re always a day away.”
