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Tractor Beams Come To Life

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the da-da-da-dadada-dadada dept.

Jamie is helping bring our childhood fantasies/nightmares to life with a link that says "Andrei Rhode, a researcher involved with the project, said that existing optical tweezers are able to move particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. Their new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more."

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  1. Strangely drawn to this story... by jrmcc · · Score: 5, Funny

    can't quite figure out why?

  2. Hope you can wait by T+Murphy · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTA:

    Physicists have been able to manipulate tiny particles over miniscule distances by using lasers for years.

    I hope the new tractor beams don't take as long to operate. I don't have that kind of time.

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