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Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved
TechkNighT_1337 sends news that surfaced on the Next Big Future blog, concerning research out of the University of Bengal, in India. The report is of a possible superconducting effect at ambient room temperatures. Here is the paper on the ArXiv. (Note that this research has not been peer-reviewed or published yet.) "We report the observation of an exceptionally large room-temperature electrical conductivity in silver and aluminum layers deposited on a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) substrate. The surface resistance of the silver-coated samples also shows a sharp change near 313 K. The results are strongly suggestive of a superconductive interfacial layer, and have been interpreted in the framework of Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons as the suggested mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates. ... The fact that the results described above have been obtained from very simply-fabricated systems, without the use of any sophisticated set-up and any special attention being given to crystal purity, atomic perfection, lattice matching, etc. suggests that the physical process is a universal one, involving only an interface between a metal and an insulator with a large low-frequency dielectric constant. We note in passing that PZT and the cuprates have similar (perovskite or perovskite-based) crystal structures. This resemblance may provide an added insight into the basic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity."
This is from India, so curry *has* to be involved.
Laughter aside the fact is this *IS* from India.. and judging by the poorly trained computer science grads we all work with from India, I highly doubt this is anything to get excited about.
No, not racism, just a statistical perspective based on real world experience and industry standards.
Answer that and you'll get a Nobel Prize.
Meh. To get a Nobel prize one merely has to be elected as President of the United States. The bar has been lowered somewhat, of late.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
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Nice use of ridiculous hyperbole to claim things I never said and simultaneously ignore my points about the paper's poor, and largely absent data. This is Slashdot though, so I'm sure scientific skepticism plays second fiddle to your desire to believe in the latest cold fusion/room temp superconductor/martian microbe/supercapacitor/infinite capacity data storage scheme claptrap that comes down the pike, so please carry on as I'm sure you will regardless. Judging from the way this thread is being moderated, you're apparently in good, like-minded company.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Well, judging by the fat dumb American slobs I encounter on a regular basis, it is really hard to believe that fuckin' Americans could have ever come up with all the inventions that they are credited with. Oh wait - maybe it's the immigrant Germans, Russians, Koreans, Indians and Chinese who actually do the core work? Yes, that has to be the explanation. Phew, I was wondering how a race of lazy assholes could ever invent so many things - turns out they actually didn't!
Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Germans, Russians, etc. work hard and build firearms in Lockheed, Boeing, etc. The porn-obsessed good-for-nothing Americans use those firearms against weak nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, North Korea, and so on. Now, these Americans are all gung-ho and upbeat when they rain bombs from the sky on defenceless nations. BUT, when the Americans have to actually go on the ground and fight it out, they piss in their pants. Take Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq - that's the pattern everywhere. Basically a cowardly race.
No, not racism, just a statistical perspective based on real world experience.
Oh, the Peace and Economics prizes are often indications of whim,
Nice understatement.
Let's see, off the top of my head we have a man who has done nothing and a known terrorist - both receiving the peace prize. At this point the suggestion the peace prize serves more of a bribe than a reward has obtained far more credibility. Stating its given on a "whim" just seems to fall, way, way, way, way short of reality. ;)
what the fuck is IAAP?
are you that arrogant that you assume everyone knows what that crap acronym stands for in your little world?