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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Real life Star Trek tractor beam developed - but it won't be dragging space ships any time soon

Real life Star Trek tractor beam developed - but it won't be dragging space ships any time soon | Mail Online: "Star Date 24102012: We have detected evidence of a working tractor beam.

Science fiction technology: The crew of the star ship Enterprise often used their tractor beam to help friendly ships in distress and capture enemy vessels

Two physicists working at New York university have developed a technique for using beams of light to draw a particle toward a source and claim to have demonstrated it experimentally.

Professor David Grier and David Ruffner, a graduate student, working at the Department of Physics and Centre for Soft Matter Research say they have realised the Star Trek-style technology - only on a miniscule scale."

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