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Scientists have found a way to levitate objects with light

Accepted submission by realDonaldTrump at 2019-03-24 06:13:25
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Faster space ships for less money, it's what we do.

foxnews.com/science/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-levitate-objects-with-light [foxnews.com]

California scientists think they’ve found a way to make objects levitate using concentrated light — a theory that could even propel spacecraft farther than they’ve ever traveled before, according to a report.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology believe that by covering the surfaces of objects with microscopic nanoscale patterns specially designed to interact with beams of light, they could be propelled without fuel — and potentially by light sources millions of miles away, according to Phys.org.


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