Jan 27, 2023
Scientists Make Star Trek Technology Real With A Working Tractor Beam
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics, tractor beam
Scientists how now developed a mini tractor beam that can pull atoms and nanoparticles. Scientists have built a real working tractor beam, albeit at a very small scale. The device, which attracts one object to another from a distance, originates in fiction. The term was coined by E. E. Smith who mentioned the technology in his 1931 novel Spacehounds of IPC, and since the 1990s, researchers have worked to make it a reality.