Looking up 'linear BEC' I'm getting battery circuits... wtf. :P On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Che <comandantegri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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'... >> > >> >> >
