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Re:Top physics breakthroughs of 2014 by rpwverheij on Friday December 12, 2014 @01:17PM (#8741750)
didn't know about the tractor beams. That's pretty cool
Re:Top physics breakthroughs of 2014 by finnh on Friday December 12, 2014 @03:01PM (#8742363)
Sadly not quite as cool as I was hoping. It's really a "push from the sides w/ the right angle against an appropriately shaped object such that net momentum is toward some putative 'source' of the beam when in fact there are two separate beams that are widely displaced from this 'source' location".
Re:Top physics breakthroughs of 2014 by delinka on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:17PM (#8742094)
Definitely awesome, but I was so hoping for "...in a vacuum" with that one.
Re:Top physics breakthroughs of 2014 by KhalilK on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:49PM (#8743184)
It already said "Acoustic"[0] ;)

0. = "Definitely not in a vacuum"

Re:Top physics breakthroughs of 2014 by delinka on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:41PM (#8743371)
Right. So I see this comment mentioning tractor beam, I get my hopes up, and read "acoustic" in the article and come back here to express mild disappointment. Does the fact that I omitted that detail somehow mean I misunderstood?