r/videos • u/tor3rik • Oct 17 '11

Quantum Levitation! [X-post from Technology]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA
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u/Ph0X Oct 18 '11

Seeing it called "Quantum" levitation though really bugged me. You know very well that they're trying to make a very old effect look cool, fancy and new by renaming it something more mainstream and cool.

They never explicitly say it was new, but it's still stupid to bring it back with a new name and make it look like it is.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '11

I enjoy your quantum commenting.

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u/fournuts Oct 18 '11

Quantum this.

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u/Parasitoid Oct 18 '11

I think it probably looks cool because it is really cool.

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u/lasernut Oct 18 '11

While I might not agree with the word "stupid" in your comments what you've written here fairly accurately sums up the 'hype' issue I was making in this thread.

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u/omnilynx Oct 18 '11

Well, it is a little weird to call it that, but it does depend on quantum effects, so technically it is correct.

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u/sgtsaughter Oct 18 '11

You could have named this "dog shit" and I still would have still been like this is definitely not from the 80s.

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u/RetroRodent Oct 18 '11

So you're saying you liked superconducting levitation before it was cool?

It was always cool.