Tractor beam
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tractor-beam-181-18734021
title:
Tractor beam
text:
A tractor beam is a device that can attract one object to another from a distance. The concept originates in fiction: The term was coined by E. E. Smith in his novel Spacehounds of IPC (1931). Since the 1990s, technology and research have labored to make it a reality, and have had some success on a microscopic level. Less commonly, a similar beam that repels is known as a pressor beam or repulsor beam. Gravity impulse and gravity propulsion beams are traditionally areas of research from fringe p
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Proposed technological device
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor_beam
date created:
2002-03-15T00:01:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T06:02:20Z
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