On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't that be fascinating if High Temp Superconductors were > generating linear BECs? I can see they might be Luttinger Liquids, > but let's say it went one step further, not into a solid state of > matter but into the Condensate state of matter. Are there telltale > signs of a BEC? > I'm no fyzicist, but BECs are the quantum state of matter absolutely requiring the least possible amount of energy in the system as is possible (in order to overcome Pauli exclusion, AFAIK). So AFAIK too: they'd _necessarily_ *need* to be around zero kelvin. Not so superconductors: which would apparently *only* require a configuration which allows electrons (_only_ cooper pairs?) to travel freely without careening into the atomic lattice containing them. Perhaps a lattice which indeed *guides* them w/o any friction. Maybe a future fyzix would handle that at room temperature too... Who can know the far future, eh..? And perhaps room temperature superconductors would be the necessary pre-condition for that to come about, too... (??!!) :D > > On 7/18/17, Che <comandantegri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Brian Ahern <ahern_br...@msn.com> > wrote: > >> > >> There are no room temperature superconductors. They are theoretically > >> impossible. > >> > >> ***Someone should tell the guys who are working towards that goal. > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconductor > > > > > > I think the problem with this sort of thinking, is that the assumption is > > to assume we need only be looking at essentially 'known' states of matter > > -- whilst totally overlooking the HUGE (essentially INFINITE) 'phase > space' > > of possibilities which 'emergent' physical relations hand us. > > > > Someone is not 'thinking outside the box'... > > > >
