How science is making the sci-fi ‘tractor beam’ a reality
Thursday, Sep 12, 2024, 04:26 AM | Source: Pursuit
Maryam Setareh, Kenneth Crozier
Most of us would only associate ‘tractor beams’ with sci-fi movies like Star Wars and Star Trek.
And while it’s unlikely that we’ll see a spaceship being sucked into a mothership in real life, scientists can now easily produce a laser beam that draws particles towards itself – like a tractor beam – at the microscopic scale.
