Superconductor Smackdown: Breakthrough or ‘Probable Fraud’? (#309)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
The Room Temperature Superconductivity Phenomenon
Jordan Harbinger: It's very difficult to get a room temperature superconductor as it is to get a purely quantum state of something otherwise non-classical in its behavior. The key phenomenon, so-called Cooper pairs, which are pairs of electrons that you'd normally think would be repelling each other, but they're bound together because of interaction with lattice particles called phonons. And the last thing that happens is the so-called Meisner effect, which is that the magnetic fields become zero within the material.
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