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Engineers create a real-life tractor beam, but it only manipulates tiny particles
(www.techspot.com)
Good news! Everything is made of tiny particles!
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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I have no idea how it works, but I always found tractor beams to be fascinating. I wonder just how far it can be scaled up to?
Up to 5 millimeters
Seems like a crazy breakthrough, nice that they started it on a chip, it'll be quick to scale up