TheRealMafoo on 11 September 2010
| trunkswd said: Just the first step, but still really cool. I wonder when they will be able to move objects bigger than just a particle. |
With this method, probably never. All they are doing is heating up an area and making the particle to move to that area. The only thing new here is with a laser, they can heat up very specific areas while not heating up very specific areas.
Cool trick, but it's not the precursor to a tractor beam as we think of it.
