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

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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.

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

Check credits under "Advisor"

That was really really really funny.

The real thing better top this...

Man... I love it around 5:00... Bravo!

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

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

thanks

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

I shot Matt an email. I will let you know if he replies.

Wow... That is hysterical... I totally know Matt Sullivan. Totally awesome project.

Boom! That's Science!

Eat it!

http://videosift.com/video/Real-Quantum-Racetrack#comment-1374990

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)

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