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That's the beauty of electromagnetic waves as used in Angels and Demons... EM waves transcend matter and anti-matter frivolities like annihilation.]]>Dec 1st 2006 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
nothing is impossible, not if you can imagine it - that's what being a scientist is all about]]>Jan 26th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
So the fish doesn't move at all-- we're actually moving the entire universe around the fish?]]>Jan 26th 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
Magnetic Bottles can only contain charged particles; charged particles cannot be contained at the density required to form liquid droplets. Either the antimatter was not charged, in which case the magnetic field would not hold the antimatter, it would leak and annihilate taking the lab with it, or the antimatter was a charged plasma, and at the inferred density the repulsive Coulomb force would blow the sample apart and out of the bottle to annihilate taking the lab with it.

Dan Brown did a disservice to his novel by trying to explain too much. He also did a disservice to everyone by being a terrible writer.]]>Dec 1st 2006 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
Suspended with sound... hmm. I imagine a scale translation used to levitate humans, hypothetically, would kill them, or at least damage one's hearing severely.
Though, we all (well, not all probably) have seen demonstrations of subwoofers and their accompanying SPL (or was it harmonic resonance?) making hair stand up/out, looking like an erratic static demonstration.]]>Dec 1st 2006 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
Sound = vibrations

Fish have a "lateral line" system along the sides of their bodies that is intended to sense vibrations around them, like a mini-radar. It's sensitive enough where dolphins can use their sonar to harrass sharks and drive them away.

Now spammed that system, which is connected to their Central Nervous System, with enough sound to float them.

It's like sandblasting a soup cracker. (Dilbert)]]>Dec 4th 2006 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
One step closer to my Luke Skywalker style land-speeder!]]>Dec 1st 2006 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
(Oh come on... If not me, then somebody else would've!)]]>Dec 1st 2006 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
The only thing is, moving is problematic, since the sound directs the object to a centre to keep it in balance.

Don't know what the stomach does with such low wave vibrations. Some people are sensitive for brown noise.

- Unomi -]]>Dec 1st 2006 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
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But magnets ... I don't know enough about the idea to know if it could work without all kinds of magnet related issues... imagine using sound to do this.

Just a thought. :)]]>Dec 1st 2006 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
They already have trains like that, they're called Maglev trains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_train]]>May 6th 2007 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
But: I see fish that size as animals, insects not. If the experiment is not OK for humans, don't test it on animals]]>Dec 1st 2006 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
No one likes a discriminator.]]>Dec 1st 2006 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 6th 2006 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_train]]>Dec 1st 2006 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 1st 2006 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 2nd 2006 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/
don't forget the Mythbusters team!]]>May 6th 2007 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 6th 2006 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/01/chinese-mad-scientists-levitate-fish-with-sound/Dec 6th 2006 1:10AM