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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28138)	1/29/2003 10:44:37 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: Ask Google Ray. Don't ask people. They are clueless. Maurice, It is my policy when confounded by your conflation of fact and fiction to call you on it. Not always, but when there's an easy lay-up like "tractor beam". I edited my query of you by deleting the second sentence which read: "Some sort of sci-fi fantasy?" It appears I was intuitively on to something. Though I will say that the nanotechnology of lasers being used as a motive force seems somewhat promising. However, inasmuch as electromagnetic forces are so much more energetic than photonics at close range, I fail to see how this "tractor beam" will ever prove to be commercially viable as a prime mover. Plasma cutters..... you betcha. Weapon of war...absolutely. But prime mover of a rotating or non-linear motor? Not likely on a commercial product. ******** From the article: He added: "We've only just begun to realise the possibilities for what we might do with this technology." Righto! A blizzard of research grant proposals will be the greatest product of this gizmo....