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

Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/cAMSoAUo288 UC San
Diego Physics Professor Jorge Hirsch... ...joins Professor Brian
Keating to discuss recent claimed a breakthrough in
high-temperature superconductors, including claims they work at
near ambient pressure and temperature. Here come cheap magnetic
levitating trains, low-loss power distribution, free MRI scanners
in every clinic…. Or not? Watch my solo episode about the
controversial claims here:  https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4
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! 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? The Nature Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05742-0 Key Concepts:
Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without
resistance. Room-temperature superconductors would have a wide
range of potential applications, including in power transmission,
medical imaging, and quantum computing. The researchers at the
University of Rochester claim to have discovered a room-temperature
superconductor. However, there are some concerns about the validity
of the research. It is too early to say whether the discovery is a
breakthrough or a fraud. Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for
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