Fun fact...
The Nürburgring was built to alleviate unemployment in the Eifel region of northwest Germany. From 1925 to 1927, some 25,000 persons were hired to construct the racetrack. *promote

Love the mile of mud track. The only racetrack I know of where getting bitten by a gator is a possibility during the race.

The buggies are fun, but I love the jeeps. Nothing like driving a car with the water level over your head!

This is the same difference as a broadsword trying to slice through a pillow and a sabre trying to cut through wood.

I'd like to see how Aksel would do on the racetrack.

Yep, driving a car will be something you do recreationally at certain areas (racetracks, off road etc)

But no more monkeys piloting fast moving lumps of metal on open roads. Personally, I can't wait for my car to drive me home from the pub!

(Grand Prix of Germany - 1939)

Again hundreds of thousands converged on the Nürburgring to witness the struggle for the first Grand Prix of Greater Germany.

Seventeen racing cars stand at the race's start: Mercedes Benz, Auto Union, Alfa Romeo, Maserati und Delahaye.
The proud airship «Graf Zeppelin» with its 4 Mercedes Benz motors came to visit, too.
The field is already entering the southern bend - the battle has begun.

From a bird's eye view the racing race cars look like kid's toys.
But for the drivers 500km on the hardest racetrack of the world is all but child's play.
More than a thousand times they have to de-clutch, shift, brake.
The tiniest of mistakes endangers life and victory.
Bend joins bend; sharp inclines and abrupt falls alternate.
The machines' strain is enormous.
The machines have to provide over 7000 revs.
And all that for close to four hours - a grim ordeal for car and driver.

Breakdowns are numerous.
Caracciola, who seized the lead in lap 13, bears the great Mercedes Benz community's hopes.

Scattered showers made the track dangerously slippery, but calm and confident, the experienced master Caracciola guides his car towards the finish line.
Excitedly, chief engineers Wagner and Heeß, the designers of the Mercedes Benz racing cars, watch the contest's thrilling final stage.
The last round: Celebrated by the spectators Caracciola crosses the finish line.

His own fault for causing a massively dangerous move blocking a pass forcing the passer to drive in the middle lane against oncoming traffic. That was the a-hole all thou the psss was already a dangerous thing to do, he really didn't have enough room and tried to force our cameraman to brake.. But he didn't slow down, oh no, he just stubbornly defended his position on a raccetrack.. Oh wait, it isn't a racetrack, idiot... Should've been forced off the road, douchebag.

One of these guys has been arrested, surprised at that.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0509/breaking55.html

The usual spokespeople are calling for the government to build a racetrack. Only problem is the government is in the hole for squillions of €uro....

>> ^MycroftHomlz:

How do you mean? The Miessner effect is purely quantum mechanical, in that, there is no classical mechanics analog for this behavior. And you need wave functions to explain the physics at all. If you want to understand it you can read Yip and Sauls paper...
>> ^westy:
No more or less Quantum than anything else



My point was that ultimately everything is quantum.

This only seems more Quantum on the face of it because its a counter intuitive behivoir at a human scale.

I think there could probably be a better way to describe it such as "magnetic Super conductor Wipe out" , "Magnetic levitation wipe out " , " super conductor levitation track" in this case the word quantum just seems to be used as gimmic / buzz word.

Still if it gets people to read into science and makes them exited about it cnt really complane

How do you mean? The Miessner effect is purely quantum mechanical, in that, there is no classical mechanics analog for this behavior. And you need wave functions to explain the physics at all. If you want to understand it you can read Yip and Sauls paper...
>> ^westy:

No more or less Quantum than anything else

Sad but true... Credits go to the advisor. Typically this is because the idea belongs to the advisor. In very rare instances, the advisor does not conceive of the project. In those case, the advisor will defer to the student. Author order is important. The first author is the lead student, and the last author is the advisor. This is often regardless of how much work was put into writing the paper.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^rich_magnet:
Your friend Matt's research? From the credits I think you mean your "friend" Arnold's research.

Check credits under "Advisor"

Your video, Real Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

nom de physique>> ^Payback:

>> ^rich_magnet:
Your friend Matt's research? From the credits I think you mean your "friend" Arnold's research.

Check credits under "Advisor"

>> ^rich_magnet:

Your friend Matt's research? From the credits I think you mean your "friend" Arnold's research.


Check credits under "Advisor"

I just briefly read about it. Essentially below certain temperatures superconductors cannot have a magnetic field inside its body (I still don't know why), so the magnetic field flows "around" the superconductor, looking kind of like what air looks like going over an airplane wing. That seems oversimplified, but I'm dumb and I haven't taken E&M in 2 years...>> ^MycroftHomlz:

^jealous.
@rottenseed, It is the Meissner effect. I can go into it... are you sure you want that?

http://videosift.com/video/Quantum-Racetrack-Explained

This one is even cooler... They show it working upside down!