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“Star Trek” may have predicted the iPad and the iPhone, but who would have thought scientists could actually build a working tractor beam?

New York University physicists David Ruffner and David Grier have proposed how a working tractor beam might be assembled, according to a written statement. (For those who aren’t fans of the science fiction franchise, a tractor beam is a device that uses energy to pull an object toward itself.)

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David Ruffner Grier Tractor Beam

Two physicists from NYU have proposed how
a working tractor beam might be assembled.
This is a publicity photo of Leonard Nimoy and
William Shatner as Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk
from the television program “Star Trek.”

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/tractor-beam-real-life_n_2018045.html?ref=topbar

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