New Type of Superconductivity Spotted

sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from a story about research into an unusual form of superconductivity:"Superconductors, materials that carry electricity without resistance, can be divided into two broad groups depending on how they react to a magnetic field — or so physicists thought. New experiments show that one well-studied superconductor actually belongs to both groups at the same time. The advance may not immediately lead to new gadgets and applications, but it suggests that superconductivity, which has already netted four Nobel Prizes, may be an even richer phenomenon than previously thought."

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Re:Space - application with today's Superconductor

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Don't you just love it when a bunch of pedantic nerds get hold of a subject like this? They all try to shoot each other down by finding ever smaller, ever more pathetic flaws in their predecessor's argument, when the truth is most of them have no more than a passing knowledge, probably gleaned from the Discovery Channel.

It's like the "5 scifi geeks clustered round a broken laptop" syndrome. None of them actually knows how to fix it, but they're damn well going to try, and tell everyone else how stupid their own approach is to boot. I just sit back and watch :)

BTW: Not trying to troll, although I realise this post kind of reads like one. I just get frustrated sometimes by the lack of perspective apparently suffered by some people in groups like this.