[Jacob] has put a slightly new twist on the levitating ball trick with his ping-pong ball levitation machine. We’ve all seen magnetic levitation systems before. Here on Hackaday, [Caleb] built ...
The trick seems to be with the focus of the laser ... If the particle you want to levitate is small enough it will become polarized by the light, which is in itself an electromagnetic wave.
This is from OpenStar Technologies, a New Zealand company that has created a levitating energy generator that taps the fourth state of matter, plasma. This innovation can change the current generation ...