Scientists Use Sound Waves To Levitate And Manipulate Matter..TRY MIROWAVE

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Scientists Use Sound Waves To Levitate And Manipulate Matter
April 8th, 2014

Hmmm, interesting!

A team of researchers in Switzerland have developed a way of levitating and transporting small objects using nothing but sound. Using ultrasonic waves that is, sound waves whose frequencies are too high for humans to hear, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have made water droplets, instant coffee crystals, styrofoam flakes, and a toothpick, among other objects, hang in mid air, move along a plane, and interact with each other.

http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2013/11/scientists-use-sound-waves-to-levitate.html

This is from january

The essence of levitation technology is the countervailing of gravity. It is known that an ultrasound standing wave is capable of suspending small particles at its sound pressure nodes. The acoustic axis of the ultrasound beam in conventional studies was parallel to the gravitational force, and the levitated objects were manipulated along the fixed axis (i.e. one-dimensionally) by controlling the phases or frequencies of bolted Langevin-type transducers. In the present study, we considered extended acoustic manipulation whereby millimetre-sized particles were levitated and moved three-dimensionally by localised ultrasonic standing waves, which were generated by ultrasonic phased arrays.

Read more at:

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-levitate-dimensions.html

Scientists develop acoustic levitation, could enable the eventual levitation of humans

Acoustic levitation is desirable because, unlike magnetic levitation, it can be used on any object — not just materials and liquids that are magnetic. Likewise, buoyancy can be used to “levitate” some liquids, but again there are strict limitations on what liquids can be used (they must be immiscible, as with water and oil). The only limitation with acoustic levitation is that the object’s diameter must correspond to half the wavelength of the acoustic waves. As you can see, the team have no issues levitating a toothpick — something that would be impossible with both magnetic and buoyancy levitation.

Here are a few of videos, nice to watch

https://www.youtube.com/user/Acoustoforesti

http://www.crystalinks.com/levitation.html



also includes a article from 2006

Scientists Levitate Small Animals

http://www.livescience.com/1165-scientists-levitate-small-animals.html

and also

Tibetan Sound Levitation Of Large Stones
Witnessed By Scientist

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/44cosmic_wisdom/02files/Levitation03.html

Lucy