Donward Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 At first I thought this was a new Scandinavian metal band. But as cool as that would have been, this article talks about a new state of matter that scientists have discovered. http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter-the-jahn-teller-effect LostCosmonaut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted May 21, 2015 Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 How high temperature superconductors and the like work is basically wizardry to me. Apparently a lot of them involve copper oxides for some reason, but I have no clue why (something to do with electron orbitals?). All I remember about that is from high school chem where we had to learn what sp, sp2, sp3, etc. looked like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted May 21, 2015 Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 We have a dude here who claims to have produced a room temperature superconductor by bombarding diamond... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted May 21, 2015 Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 Blame sciencealert for missing that detail - people have known that c60 with some other stuff can superconduct around 30K for ages and the study doesn't find anything much improved on that. Here's the study (this might or might not work for you, I'm on university internet right now so I have no idea how open it is to mere mortals) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted May 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2015 Yeah. I don't claim to have any firm knowledge of this level of physics or chemistry other than at a very elementary level. And I'm mostly happy to live in a world of Newtonian physics with the vague hope that some general/politician/jihadi/NorthKorean/redneck doesn't strap a bunch of dynamite around a chunk of uranium/plutonium and say "Hey y'all, watch this!". (Nuclear reactors are just giant steam engines, they're cool too). Still, this sort of thing is always fascinating to me (admittedly much in the same way as a slack-jawed villager views travelling a magic act). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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