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by beautifulfreak 3043 days ago
Because it would do work in a novel way. It could be used to levitate a spaceship, for example.
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No, it wouldn't. It would cause a torque as the momentum from the fluid is transferred to the torus. It would not cause a lift. There's no overall momentum change.

It's basically a gyroscope, albeit with quantized vorticies.

An external magnetic field could be used to levitate an object. But that's not novel.