By Sebastian
Anthony on October 30, 2013 at 11:44 am
Physicists
in Australia have become the first researchers to levitate a macroscopic object
using lasers. The physicists used three lasers to form a levitational “tripod”
that could hold a small mirror in free space. Beyond the inherent awesomeness
of optical levitation, the physicists believe that the setup could be used as
an incredibly accurate sensor for fickle forces such as gravity, and perhaps
ameliorating the greatest contradiction of them all: quantum mechanics vs.
general relativity.
