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RED FLAGS! Room Temperature Superconductor or FRAUD? Jorge Hirsch on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#316)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Condensed Matter Physicist: Felix Flicker

I know about a great deal of your work as a condensed matter theorist, but we haven't had many of those on the podcast. So I am interested in actual solids as opposed to more general condensed matter. My interest is in collective phenomena in solids due to electrons deciding to somehow do something together instead of moving independently. Superconductivity is clearly one such phenomenon. Other phenomena have to do with magnitude, for example. Why iron is a magnet and aluminum is not, things like that.

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