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The quest for a real life tractor beam continues, with a 2-micrometer-thick silicon light bender. The silicon metasurface changes a solid beam into a triple spiral one that can pick up particles.
The Sector General books by James White: The 1963 novel Star Surgeon is the source of the combined tractor/pressor beam weapon called the Rattler. The weapon attracts then repels the target (an entire ship or a segment of the ship's hull) at 80 g s, several times a minute.
Scientists are working on bringing a tractor beam from science fiction to reality. Yes, seriously. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
The journal was established in 1998 as Physical Review Special Topics – Accelerators and Beams, obtaining its current title in 2016. [2] The journal does not require article processing charges, being sponsored by academic and industrial institutions. [1]
Limitations of the tractor concept include the exhaust configuration. With the most efficient hovering design (that is, pointing the exhaust directly at the target object for maximum force per unit of fuel), the expelled reaction mass hits the target head-on, imparting a force in exactly the opposite direction to the gravitational pull of the tractor. [4]
Spacehounds of IPC is a science fiction novel by American writer E. E. Smith.It was first published in book form in 1947 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,008 copies. It was the first book published by Fantasy Press.
In addition to the book's re-classification, the county commission approved the creation of a committee to revise the policy that created the citizens review committee and placed a hold on all ...
Joe Pappalardo of Popular Mechanics, in analyzing several different Star Wars vehicles, gave a mixed review of the Hailfire droid. He praised it for being a wheeled vehicle instead of a walking vehicle and noted that having the robot body suspended between wheels is a popular real-world design which allows robots to right themselves.