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Small animals levitated by sound

Insects and fish emerge intact from uplifting experience.

In northern China there are flying fish and flying ants like you've never seen before. Scientists at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian have used sound waves to levitate these and other small creatures while they are still alive, without causing them any apparent harm.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 29, 2006 06:04 PM |

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FASCINATING!!! AND VERY RELEVENT...

How many watts at what frequency does it take to levitate a unit of mass?

Do different sonic frequencies preferentially support different densities of tissue?

How difficult is scaling up the effect so that whole humans may be levitated?

Posted by: Richard Wheeler | November 30, 2006 12:04 AM

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