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Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor
StarEmperor writes "A team of Canadian and German scientists have fabricated a room-temperature superconductor, using a highly compressed silicon-hydrogen compound. According to the article,"The researchers claim that the new material could sidestep the cooling requirement, thereby enabling superconducting wires that work at room temperature.""
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Researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska have just created a room temperature superconductor.
the scientists, that is...
I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin
* Room-temperature superconductors
* Computers that explode violently
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
So, lets say this eventually becomes a common technology (doubtful, but lets pretend). When do we get to stop calling them 'super'conductors?
.bat files were like, actually bats that flew around in your computer, and you forgot what the line was you just deleted, and your game never runs again.
Never, because the physics of super conductors is different from regular conductors, and regular conductors are never going away. There are many, many circumstances where having resistance is necessary, and for that you need a plain-ol' conductor. Also I think we're safe from creeping-superlative-itis because you pretty much can't get more "super" than "effectively zero resistance".
And what's so hard about remembering all the types of DOS memory? "Conventional" was the kind that you never had enough of to launch your games. "Extended" memory was a baroque and stupid way of accessing all the extra memory you had that the chip couldn't address directly. "Expanded" memory was the same thing, only different. "Upper" memory was the memory your chip could address but refused to let your games use. And lastly "high" memory is when you were editing your config.sys autoexec.bat to get more conventional memory but you got distracted thinking about how funny it would be if
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I'm just predicting a dupe on Slashdot in 20 years.
No doubt. Think of the awesome stereo cables you could make with these!!!
Superconducting speaker cables and interconnects....the audiophiles dream!!
No wooden knob needed.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
kinetic energy is not a thing but a property dependent on inertial reference frame of observer
It's turtles all the way down
Combine the room-temp superconductor plus the motionless CPU cooler, throw in the fact that scientists success corrolates to beer (three stories from today), and you just might have colder beer.
Layne
Surely we'll have to wait for directional, oxygen-free, hand-plaited, super-conducting cables that only come pre-cut in matched sets with superconducting power cables. Of course, such cables would be incomplete without solid gold plugs fitted by deaf vestal virgins and a name that gratuitously includes the words "Reference" or "Ultimate". My stereo is quivering in anticipation ;)
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
Said material melts at 88 kelvins. It'd be like galvanizing an ice cream cone.
yup, and I tell ya what, the legs o' them broad-backed world supportin'turtles is good eatin!
No wooden knob needed.
No, you'd still need the audiophile.
(i kid because i care... ok, you caught me. I don't really care)
Darth --
Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre
The huge disparity between on-chip clocks and bus/memory clocks will increase the pressure on Intel and AMD to push as much circuitry on-chip as possible.
Yes, but will it increase the pressure enough to achieve superconductivity?
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No way! The cold sound of a superconductor cable cannot be compared to that warm, round sound of a vintage copper cable.
Run a few loops of it around the equator, put a big enough current through it and you could put Magnetic North on top of True North, where it bloody well should be.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...