Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Superconductor Smackdown: Breakthrough or ‘Probable Fraud’? (#309)

Apr 2, 2023

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Introduction

4min

The Dangers of Public Policy Becoming the Captive of a Scientific Technological Elite

4min

The Retraction of a Previous Paper

2min

The Room Temperature Superconductivity Phenomenon

5min

The Jordan Harbinger Show

5min

The History of the Nobel Prize

3min

The Importance of a High Temperature Superconductor

2min

The Crucial Property of Near Ambient Superconductivity

3min

The History of Superconductivity

3min

10.

The High Temperature Superconductor

5min

11.

The Controversial Background Subtraction Technique

2min

12.

The Controversy Over the Discovery of Superconductivity

4min

13.

The Archive's Treatment of Jorge Hirsch

3min

14.

Hersh's Critique of a Nature Publication

6min

15.

The Dangers of Superconductors in Climate Change

3min

16.

Into the Impossible

3min

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Here come maglev trains, fusion reactors, cheap MRI scanners in every clinic…. Or not?

Since the discovery of superconductors in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, earning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics, they have been the subject of much fascination and inquiry. Some of the greatest minds in physics have grappled with how superconductivity works to drive electrical resistance to 0. The 1972 Nobel prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer "for their BCS theory of superconductivity. Now the race is on to get the highest temperature superconductor possible; another Nobel Prize was awarded just for getting the temperature up to 35K or -396 Fahrenheit! So superconducting has remained impractical, until now... Maybe! The HUGE claim: zero resistance, at temperatures up to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Is it a scientific breakthrough, or is it very probably fraud?

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:11 Eisenhower’s warning https://youtu.be/mHDgsh6WPyc?t=562
00:01:55 Jorge Hersch and High Tc Superconductors
00:04:32 Conflict between Hersch and Diaz
00:06:25 What is a superconductor?
00:20:45 Cooper Pairs and Quantum Effects
00:25:00 100 years of superconducting materials
00:28:13 The experiment and the diamond anvil!
00:33:31 The Unearthly Materials Controversy
00:40:00 Academic Freedom and Moderation
00:43:26 Conclusions and Takeaways

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