Superconducting Quantum Levitation on a 3π Möbius Strip
From the Low Temperature Physics Lab:
Quantum levitation on a 3π Möbius strip track! Watch the superconductor levitate above the track and suspend below the track, without having to go across the edge.
Our track is not an "ordinary" Möbius strip with just one twist, but rather a Möbius strip with three twists -- 540 degrees, or 3π radians, thus, a 3π Möbius strip track.
You can also check out the video we made that documents the building of the track, if you want to make your own: • The Making of: Superco...
If you have more questions about the physics or how we made the track, see our other videos:
• Quantum Levitation on ...
• Superconducting Magnet...
Chapters:
0:00 What is a Mobius Strip?
0:56 The 3-pi Mobius Strip
1:35 Cooling the superconductor
2:01 Around the Mobius Strip!
2:37 Credits
They next time someone points out that my belt is twisted, I can reply that I'm actually wearing a Mobius strip.
That’s pretty good. And it sounds way cooler than belt.
The new fashion lol
It wouldn't be a Mobius strip and the person would call you out on your badly thought out, mathematically incorrect joke. Edit: Actually, I'm wrong. I was imagining trying to twist a completed loop into a Mobius strip. I dumbly forgot that a belt starts as a strip, not becoming a loop until you actually put it on, so it's totally possible for it to become mobius'd.
Max Loh 180° twist is all it needs :) It would be uncomfortably though
When you take it off, you can do a Mobius strip. And if you do it slow enough, you might even get a Mobius tip 😉
Hot wheels are for noobs ...Superconducting Quantum Levitation teabag is the new swag
greatavielite teabag 😂😂
Plus you get a nice cuppa at the end
That's funny shit well done
I wish they spent more time with the superconductor teabag going zoom than explaining mobius strips in the proper language.
Flynn Livescmd That's not erudite or enlightened negativity - there is no sense of wonder or enjoyment in it. Just hyper critical snobbery. Enjoy your cold dead heaven. Wherever it may be.
I like how more time is spent explaining what a Möbius loop is than showing the actual QUANTUM LEVITATION.
I don't really like this ratio.
This should be present as a decoration in every supersmart villain's headquarters.
Oh, it's just a small desktop toy for Mr. Bigglesworth to play with.
@@ohbogey gold star ⭐ you tried
KZhead: " you've seen endgame, so now you're ready for this"
XD
The display of the quantum bracelet hologram that Tony made was actually a Mobius strip
I wanted to comment this :/
Yesterday i have see end game and today i find this in recommendations
Right!? How ironic this pops up. Like I love physics but I’ve never searched this stuff 😂
I like how all this time for explanation was spent on how to twist a loop rather than anything at all to do with the physics and objects involved lol
I agree. Hey kids, taking minutes to show the twisting is trite. How 'bout some science about how this track works?
They don’t know 😂
@Nathan Proença nah they just have no idea on physics, take it granted. the only contribution they make is to put that physics on mobius strip that's why they focus on it.
@@robertrogers7331 magnets
Exactly what i was thinking
Welcome, LK-99 crowd!
Lol you got me, i was just wondering how magical this already looks, and if LK99 is confirmed (quite unlikely), we'd basically start considering levitation normal.
LK-99 is a good start but still needs further extensive research
Key learning: Mobius strip is mathematically defined as non orientable surface with one boundary.
weird concept to think about. One side and one edge. But when you look at any local point it seems like theres two sides and two edges. Klein bottle is even weirder. One side, zero edges.
@@DerpMuse Yeah! Klein bottle is even cooler than I thought.
I literally can't wrap my head around the mobius strip. How is the disc traversing on both side when you watch this.
That is most certainly NOT the key learning here. Why? Few can visualize what a "non orientable surface with one boundary" is. This thing is a mobius strip, repeated 3x. "One boundary"? Maybe NOT. Now, you can go back to memorizing obtuse mathematical sentences.
@@NeverTalkToCops1maybe not?!?! Wtf are you on?
KZhead recommending this vid to Tony 7 years in the future like it usually does
3 years so far
Tony?
TheBrax2000 Tony Stark (Iron Man) used a Möbius Strip in Avengers endgame to create a time machine. The movie is set in 2023.
Cookie Cat honestly I still haven't seen that movie lol
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Meanwhile, my earphone cables are doing an ∞π loop.
This 6 minute video will save you more than 6 minutes of untangling headphones. kzhead.info/sun/ldmPhdqmhJF3rY0/bejne.html
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣
They’re twisted every degree.
Shit
I was Introvert Then I bought Möbius Strip. Now I'm running Mayors elections
You organise elections? Cool. How much does one make in bribes there (:-P) and have you had a Mayor Failure?
You got me thinking this was a Haiku on the first half
This is so cool. You can see that while it levitates, the 'cart' is really exerting force on the track.
Newtons 3rd law baby
Instructions unclear. Accidentally traveled in time :/
1.) Did you pee your pants? 2.) If so, which version of you did it?
1) Yes 2) Just me...me
1)Did you do it? 2) what did it cost?
1) Yes 2) Nothing iTs FrEe ReAl EsTaTe...
I’m traveling to the future at normal speed
Thanks now I'll be able to make a Time Machine for myself
You need some plutonium
Ryan gst u mean banana peels?
I’m sorry, but you need the strip to be inverted first before achieving that.
@Maurice LesGrosYeux somebody peed in my pant😂
@@Ryan_1997 and a flux capacitor
This is how we start the real life immortal grand prix anime
F-Zero
Absolutely brilliant work!! Kudos
This is my magical floaty device. Let's talk about paper.
🤣🤣🤣
Dundee mifflin paper company approves this message
Dead Man Off Acid she gets laid but the dude doesn’t
Im still laughing
"Wow, I wonder how quantum levitating works!" Video: So in order to tape this piece of paper, take a piece of tape...
Lol you just killed me 😂😂😂
Accurate
Right???
It's not quantum they're doing it for views
@@trashywashy1977 ? It's an accurate description. The science just isn't explained. Like, at all.
My favourite part is when he said “it’s möbin time” and möbed all over the place. Truly the möbin moments of all time
Morbius strip
me: oh nice a video about Superconducting Quantum Levitation video:here's how to twist paper
@Jake McCoy is right but I am going to add thiswell what do you expect, everyone in this country is dumb
@@copper803 u realise KZhead is available to nations outside of your own right? Hello from England 🇬🇧
@@tron1852 well he meant the states
@Jake McCoy is right but I am going to add this don't be silly, the video is to explain how mobius strips are utilised for that effect. Even smart people appreciate simple explanations
@AJtheory But their chicken got tiny over the years... used to get a bucket FULL with a 12 piece! One near my house looks like anemic chickens... puny!
Isn't it funny how Endgame just shown a mobius strip and they're like "hey it's another one of those quantum mumbo jumbos so let's mix it with time travel!"
@whatisreality01 yeah man I had that happen a few times. Flat world confirmed
no, they were using it to explain the flow of space-time in order to traverse t backwards...it was a visual abstraction that kind of made sense...unlike Thanos' retarded plan.
Him using a mobius strip did have merit, imagine a 2 dimensional being traversing a mobius strip, to it it would think it never left the second dimension, but since the loop is twisted, it is travelling in 3.
@@DisentDesign tbh thanos' plan wasn't retarded. His intention was right, the purpose of wiping 50% of lifeform made sense. But of course it's just wrong to murder. In the eyes of us humans of course.
@@st1n actually this is unrelated but, in the comics his real motives are to kill people in order satisfy death (the girl) in order to get her. In reality, he is the ultimate SIMP.
Beautiful. Thank you 🙏
0:48 me trying to find the long side of my blanket be like
A perfect counter to an ability that turns you inside out.
『Stone Ocean』 and 『C-Moon』?
C moon cant inside out if you done outside in
found the jojo fan
Metallica could also turn people inside out just by manipulating the iron in their blood
@@discountedartificer250 damn man to bad he didn't think hard enough
OMG! A 3π mobius strip? No way. That's awesome! Oh, and the superconducting quantum levitation is kind of neat too.🤷🏼♂️
I still can't wrap my head around the way the track works
What?
@@latetodagame1892 you heard me!
@@aaronmackay6123 it has been 8 months, do you understand now?
If you make the circle a LOT bigger, you can get more twists in it.
That was really neat. Thanks!
Ohhh, that's brilliant!
Tony Stark watched this video
XD
From heaven?
This vid basic of time machine by tony stark xD
* opens KZhead* "How to build a time machine?" Oh that's how
3000 times
Jolyne Kujo: We're in endgame
Been looking for that JoJo ref >: D
Pucci: You couldn’t live with your failure... And where did that bring you? Back to me
didn't expected jojo fan here but ok.
@@adliiyadhafizan5669 isn't that how the meme goes? 😂
I Jotaro Kujo, have been killed
Insanely well constructed👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I love the final shot of both of y'all smiling
“Alexa, discover time travel” “Okay”
😏
alexa divide by zero
Alexa what is my location?
Alexa square root -6
@@jorellgoh sqrt(6)*i
Why is this not a Mario cart level, that would be grand.
I think Nintendo already did something like that in at least one F-zero game. Not 100% sure.
There's already a level like that in mario kart 8. Even the "8" in the logo is a mobius strip.
Mario Circuit from Mario Kart 8.
I stand corrected.
Theres a mobius strip track in Sonic Riders Zero Gravity. Its not mario kart but still a racing game
Thank You Mr. Stark!
Gorgeous 3 π model. Imagine the possibilities with room-temperature superconductors
Aged like milk eh?
dont see how @@MisterZig0
@@dablockyincorporated5759 It was posted before people figured out that the lk99 thing was bs so I assume they referenced that.
Endgame ending #14,000,604 : Tony Stark didnt watch this video. They failed to travel time.
HotWheels but it's cold. *ColdWheels*
Its more like NoWheels.
It more like QuantumWheels or Flywheels
FrostWheels!
It's timewheels
wtfWheels
The intrusive music makes this look like a junior high project! Best of luck!
Fantastic ! Thanks a lot ! and congratulations
ive watched Endgame and youtube recommended me this
The secret to time travel has been here on KZhead all these years.
duraath let THAT sink in
Shut the fuck up
@@pulyps20sf Epic reply. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@WonderWaffles I think you switched out the hh tab
"What did you do this weekend?" "Oh, just superconducted quantum levitation, you?"
"Nice, how does it work?" "Twist a track three times."
What did you do 8 months ago? “Oh, just left an unnecessary comment”
@@lyubovslomania5431 what did you do 2 months ago "Oh just left an unnecessary comment"
coffee
You learned a new thing from your KZhead homepage Good Job✨
Best illustration of a Mobius strip.
These college kids with their fancy grants and fancy brain cells... back in my day, we froze our hands on dry ice and that was it
Wana know something.. in the US parents have been legally uncommitting to their kids just so they can get collegae education for free...
@@DiceStrike what is this collegae that you speak of?
@@-Sean_ somethingt about fishes and aquariums idk
Fancy brain cells *lucky*
@@law4421 lucky? how so?
too cool! congrats!
TAOFLEDERMAUS HOW'D YOU GET HERE!?!?
sup mate
Jeeze, I see you everywhere!?
Cool you're here
"but will it fire from a smooth bore shotgun?" - Jeff
Amazing project
Such a great idea. Well done !
build it large and you have a next-gen rollercoaster!
Except you have to put the rollercoaster at ~ -150°C lol
Use it to make a train
Ur going to need one hell of a winter coat to ride it
@@davidr6133 Magneticly levitated trains are already in use, and are as close as we can get currently on such a large scale. Currently, you can be on a train at the station, balance a coin on it's side, travel all the way to another station faster than any other train travels, and end up at the next station without the coin ever falling over.
notbob555 sorry we live in the US, we don’t know what commute trains are
Imagine a rollercoaster running on a Mobius loop track!
I would ride that for sure.
V. scary thought to me.
If you'd build it, imma ride it and you'd make a fortune off of everyone.
Duh.. we would be just traveled in time.
It would be hard to make probable and comfortable forces on such a ride.
yes yes yesssss. good job👍🏼
Wicked awesome man
Tony Stark: How can i build a time machine ? KZhead Recomended:
lmaoooooo
lol
Pretty much
You forgot the eigenvalues.
I still think amusent parks should build Möbius loops in their rides. That'd be so cool.
Fantasticus yeah!
how would you get on/off??
FOR THE PEOPLE A stop at one point of the loop. Nobody said it cant be a giant loop
NO
The ride couldn't be made because the supports would interact with track parts it works here because it is in mini form and can easily be supported you would also need 2 exit places lol well that would be cool also you would die
This is so cool! awesome work!
Very cool. I could watch that thing all day
No one: KZhead algorithm: *I have gathered us all here today*
Have a reply
Love that pfp of yours
Wow wow so unoriginal so uninteresting
I just gave you your 666th like. The number of the carbon atom
*today*
If we ever get to the point where we can make room temperature superconductors, this would make a killer desk toy.
What I wouldn’t give for a room temperature quantum levitation 3 radian mobius strip desk toy
We could all just keep dewars of liquid nitrogen in our drawers when we need to cryo freeze things
Theme park ride!!
So you know how the discovery of steam power in the 1780s revolutionized the world and less than 300 years later we’ve gone from that to landing on the moon Well your comment is about what the ancient Egyptians said about the steam engine when THEY first invented it OVER 2000 YEARS AGO! They discovered steam power almost 2000 years before people realized how useful it could be. just imagine how different the world would be now, We could’ve had 2000 more years of technological and scientific development. Just think about what the world might look like 2000 years from NOW, and we could be living in THAT, if only someone, ANYONE, could have changed their way of thinking. to look at this little trinket, not as a desk toy like everyone else saw it as. But to see what it could be. There might be some other uses, is my point. But I hope you liked that little history bit
you're talking about an evolutionary discovery and all you can muster up is a desk toy...
This is amazing
thanks for putting subtitles
Thanks to this video we have the endgame
“Fast and the Furious 2099” Death race around this track.
You know those are two different movie stories?
Futurama did it.
So amazing how it goes on one side then the other.
For everyone asking what the rest of it is, when you supercool a strong magnet (let’s say a neodymium magnet) it turns into what’s known as a superconductor. A superconductor has a unique magnetic field which interacts with other magnetic fields, allowing the superconductor to remain at a static distance above another magnet (in short, its magnetic field becomes sticky towards other magnetic fields rather than clingy like a normal magnet.)
Are planets super conductors?
the track on its own looks like a really interesting piece of modern art
Me: searching for hyper conductive möbius 3pi strip Everyone else: it was in my recommended.
r/iamverysmart
@@philswift9705 actually, there was someone who commented the exact same thing so I was parodying it lmfao
@@adellexmiles3155 oh ehdurhsjsksjdj
Lmao it was tho
That track is a thing of beauty.
Someone finally found a use for the Möbius strip 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Quite honestly I’m flattered this was in my recommended.
Why would you be flattered
@@zy27 because that means he's been watching big brain stuff!
Wow. 2021... turning a loop thrice.... the bar has been set.
Yah I tried explaining what was going on to my S/O and realized I'm probably too stupid to be watching this cuz i tried summarizing it with "it's like a magnetic race track"
Boys: "Oh man, they used it on Endgame, that's so cool!" Men: "Jolyne's a goddamn badass"
more like legends
You know it
More like, weebs
I'm in both though.
1000 iq
Crazy, great work!!
AMAZING!
Thanos: snaps *5 years later* KZhead recommendations: "hey Tony, watch this."
Really underrated comment
This should be voted way higher.
bruh these guys must’ve been blipped
Honestly I agree, great comment.
These people really out here casually defying gravity with an icecube while I'm struggling to open a mayo packet
lmao
Mayo! I'm having trouble with my mustard!
Its cause gravity is a fallacy debunked by a cork in water its that simple different medium different result newton should of dropped the apple in a bucket of water
I mean... they’re just using magnets.
@@majorhazzard8642 but a cork in water is just obeying buoyancy. It isn't defying gravity right?
Im just mesmerized by that song lol too good.
I definitely understood everything in this video...
Let's keep the pym particles away from this man. He might accidentally discover how to time travel
He already did, he did this video in 2020 and time travelled back to upload it so it’d be recommended today
Curious George has no tail!?!?!?!?
hahahaha
Imagine how sick a roller coaster ride like this would be, you go through once and make a lap around, and the second lap around you do it on the other side of the track. I’m not sure how practical it would be, if possible at all, but it is still a pretty cool concept to think about.
I would puke within the first half of it
OK so it's not what you describe, but The Grand National ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach is a mobius loop 'coaster.... It seems to be 2 tracks side by side with the trains racing each other, but it is only one track. You arrive back on the side you didn't leave from. One time I went on it, the train rolled a few feet too far when it returned. It needed attendants to let people off, but said it was OK to stay on... I got to ride the entire 1 track 2 loops in one sitting! No one else on the ride understood the significance since they weren't maths nerds.
it would be possible, building one to human scale would be a fortune and a half to build, but essentially you just upsize the track to to be large enough for humans, have a place to charge the superconductor and have a gyroscopic tram cart that self orientes when the track changes. Which means you'll have this epic view where up and down is seamlessly blurred as you transition
a little more detail on the tram cart, it'll need to have an inner chassis that will be able to which from up to down and vice versa. The tram cart itself will most likely be mirrored in design, where the doors function regardless of orientation, essentially the cart will feel and look like something from the future
Looks really cool! Well done
Pretty awesome!
Mario Kart 8 explained
what everyone was thinking lmao
more like F-Zero GX
Nah F zero
WipeOut HD Fury explained.
You mean Sonic riders: Zero Gravity
Mind bending
PUNNS!!!
Bharti Kankonkar i
No plz😂
Really cool Mobius strip, it would be amazing to see this work in zero gravity.
Wow! thats a pretty great idea!
Buen trabajo excelente explicación! Gracias
My man about to build the time machine from endgame
100th like
This new F-Zero game looks good.
F-Zero? more like F
Awesome mobius strip superconducting transportation experiment.
This video gets recommended to me about once a year. Every time I’m not disappointed
My Saturday stoned self thanks you for that most excellent presentation!
My evening Saturday ripped self agrees with your statement! And wishes you an excellent rest of your weekend!
Now i see the connection between Sonic the hedgehog and the word "mobius"
BobTheBuilder294 cause he wears no clothes and that's why it's called a strip
is that walker tx ranger
For some reason this track remembers the final level in sonic riders
thats awesome
That was cool!
And to make an iMöbius loop, you simply rotate one cut end 180°, then the second cut end 180° in the same direction, so you have two twists, that look exactly the same as where you started. It will revolutionise how you view any closed loop, making them speaker, loopier, and better than your standard loop.
lol
Steve, pls log in
billy, look at the commenter's name please
you kids and your topology
Woob woob
Lmaoo
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I understood that reference. but Zoidberg you forgot to empty out this trash can!
Rafiki Of The Flock Saved for 321 likes.........and it is gone.
This is a nice one
This is the marvelous speed OMG.. Thanks for the demonstration. ধন্যবাদ ও শুভেচ্ছা ❤ From West Bengal, India
So freaking cool! I just watched NileRed's 40+ minute vod where he made his own superconductor.
NileRed is a great real-deal-Holyfield KZhead chemist.
This music and casual science makes me feel like I'm back in middle school. The teacher just wheeled in the big TV and the class has an excited buzz because today is not a day of study, but of *EDUTAINMENT!* The lights dim, and you can hear someone near the window whip out a gameboy, the volume not quite as low as he expected. A grainy intro shot comes on and through the speakers likely older than the majority of the class comes the grungy guitar riffs of mid-90s to early 2000s guitar. They wanted to be hip with the kids, but didn't realize that the music wouldn't be cool again until a decade later. But none ofthat matters to the kids watching: it's time for SCIENCE. You sit back and start folding some finger claws, because today is going to be a good day.
yes
I mean science is exciting
Yes
BILL! BILL! BILL!
These replies don't do enough justice to how beautifully put the comment was expressed
Insane! wow, crazy!
Looks like a nice roller coaster. Cant wait for a larger sized one :D