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why this didn't get caught sooner....

Well... Their diagram is a little funny. I think you could do it if the car or track was a superconductor, but I don't see the reason to make both superconducting.

Superconductors levitate by generating an equal and opposite magnetic field outside the superconductor to expel the magnetic flux inside (think Lenz's Law). The Meissner Effect is naively perfect diamagnetism.

I look at this and think it is totally doable. If you want I can send the video to guy I know that studies superconductors. I think most physicists would probably say that you could make this.

>> ^dannym3141:

Pretty sure that's possible, i don't care to speculate how in an engineering fashion, but sure, you can get them to follow a track and even suspend them upside down if you like, i don't how well they can stick to the track during fast turns, perhaps you'd need to tilt the surface gradually.
I assume it'd be easier to cool the track rather than the cars, otherwise you're gonna have to wire up the cars to deliver coolant which would destroy the point. The idea of nitrogen gas coming out of the tiny cars for the whole video is a bit of a suggestion it's not real. That's assuming he was putting nitrogen in the car in that weird pipe.
Shit, they do stuff similar to this with trains full of people in some places. Probably a bit of a tamer ride because of the much higher masses involved.
(I study physics, but maybe someone knows more than me about the current progress on all that)

>> ^spoco2:

lies
And someone try to prove that it's not.
That's CG. FAKEY FAKE FAKE FAKEY FAKESTER
Go on, look for JIST, it doesn't exist. There's a Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, but nowhere called this.
It's fake, and shitty that so many people have fallen for it.
Upvote so more people know it's FAKEY FAKEPANTS.


I agree.

Just some viral ad for WipeOut 2048 for Playstation, that is all. Please go back to your regular businesses.

Even though I was sceptical, I wouldn't accuse others of gullibility for believing this, given that it's not an unreasonable leap to go from this video to the current one.

I think most people who have a reasonable scientific background have a good feeling for what is potentially possible (this video for instance) and what is extremely unlikely (ultraluminal particles).

>> ^longde:

@gwiz665
Witness the intersection of science and religion. Ordain something in the raiment of science and people will believe. More so, if the field is as esoteric as quantum physics.

I'd say that spoco2 applied some fine skepticism to the whole thing. Extraordinary claims, such as this one, requires extraordinary evidence. If a youtube video is the only evidence, then it's not a very persuasive case.

Technobabble has been around since soothsayers and before, right now it's just all quantum because it's super mysterious to average folks.
>> ^longde:

@gwiz665
Witness the intersection of science and religion. Ordain something in the raiment of science and people will believe. More so, if the field is as esoteric as quantum physics.

Maybe, maybe not.

Isn't it strange that it seems plausible to us, yet neither of us have read up on this phenomenon in any journals or run any models to verify. For a counter intuitive subject like quantum physics, what may seem plausible to a layman may not be in reality.>> ^Jinx:

Couldn't you basically do this with quantum locking?
Shame its fake, but I can understand why people would be fooled. It looks fairly plausible to do for real, and tbh, some of the videos on quantum locking look just as unreal to me. Really the only thing that looked fake here was the smoke effect.

I meant exactly what I wrote; I was evoking the image of a priest being ordained in his robes.

My point, continuing a previous conversation with gwiz, is that people put faith in science much as religious people put faith in religion. Not saying people are stupid for doing so; just that people are not educated enough to discern what is truly scientifically proven and what is a hoax.

There are no legitimate demonstrations of quantum levitation that highlighted some of the features present here (e.g, angled banks, objects with limited symmetry, which could make the magnetic flux non-uniform).

If it steps over the line, even a micron, it becomes pseudo-science. Yet you are willing to suspend your disbelief based on other past results you may not understand.

This is normal. People need to truly become as skeptical of trumpeted scientific results as they are of religion.

To mangle a saying: when the high priests take over, they will come dressed in lab coats.

>> ^jmzero:

Ordain something in the raiment of science and people will believe.

Do you perhaps mean "adorn" rather than "ordain"? Or do you mean that after you put the raiment of science on something you should confer upon it some sort of priesthood? If so, that's a fairly well-mixed metaphor.
And it makes sense people would believe this. The makers here are clearly imitating previous legitimate demonstrations showing reasonably similar behavior. People weren't stupid for believing those videos (which were real) and to the extent people believed in this I don't think they're stupid or even gullible. The video doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny, but it's reasonably well made.
And of course people would have been much less likely to believe this if the makers here had credited magic or religion with powering the cars (rather than sciencey stuff). Why? Because magic and religion don't, every day, bring us cool stuff like this. Science does, and there's no reason to believe it won't deliver a real version of something similar to this in the very near future.

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Oh my god... my tummy hurts and I gotta wash my face now because of this. This is so friggin' funny. It's too bad we (Americans) don't get stuff like these... save for Wipeout. But even that felt rather tame compared to the stuff designed for Takeshi's Castle.

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Ok, I laughed at wipeout.

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