We ’ve all wonder excitedly about exactly what Google might be cook up inits X research laboratory . But now , Fast Company has taken a peep insideits workshops to found out what bechance to the ideas that do n’t make it off the drawing board .
Ina lovely feature about what Google X does — and perhaps more importantly , how it thinks — some of the scientist behind its many and wide-ranging undertaking disgorge the noodle on musical theme they ’ve had which never quite succeeded . Generally , they seem to have a cool thought , melt down with it for a while , and work that it ’s not — yet!—feasible . So , believe hover instrument panel :
“ Mag - lev ” systems have a stabilizing social structure that keep back trains in piazza as they hover and move forth in only one commission . That could n’t quite translate into an clear floor program of magnets that keep a hoverboard steady aloft and detached to move in any direction . One problem , as Piponi explain , is that magnets lean to keep shifting polarities , so your hoverboard would constantly toss over as you float around proceed from a nation of repulsion to attraction with the magnets . Any skateboarder could secernate you what that means : Your hoverboard would suck .
And call up space elevators :
The team knew the cable television would have to be exceptionally potent — “ at least a hundred times stronger than the strongest sword that we have , ” by Piponi ’s calculation . He ascertain one material that could do this : carbon nanotube . But no one has manufactured a dead formed C carbon nanotube strand longer than a meter . And so elevator “ were put in a deep freeze , ” as Heinrich says , and the team resolve to keep tab on any advances in the carbon nanotube field .
And think … teleportation :
The conversation eventually drifts to how the squad had at one point debate the pro and cons of call for on teleportation . Yes , like in Star Trek . As with that show ’s Transporter , the molecules of a person or thing could theoretically be “ beamed ” across a strong-arm distance with the help of some kind of scan technology and a teleportation equipment . None of which really exists , of course . Piponi , after some study , conclude that teleportation profane several legal philosophy of physics .
understandably , these are all crazy ideas that would probably never run — but it ’s cracking that Google is thinking about them . What ’s nice , too , is that all the hair - brained schemes seem to produce some real results , too . So , for representative , the mentation about teleportation gave rise to a Modern encryption scheme used by Google .
It ’s hardly surprising that this level of thinking buy the farm on , given some of the brains that Google employs — which is what makesthe Fast Company featuresuch a worthwhile read . Go contain it out . [ Fast Company ]
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