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A New Class of Superconductors: Commonly Mistaken Name Leads to Discovery
https://scitechdaily.com ^ | FEBRUARY 15, 2021 | By RICE UNIVERSITY

Posted on 02/16/2021 6:23:28 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Slight correction, the ones with opposite spin ( +1/2, -1/2) pair off. The pair together then has a net spin of zero, like a photon ( a boson), which do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle. This allows the electrons to flow without resistance.


21 posted on 02/16/2021 8:25:46 AM PST by takebackaustin
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To: takebackaustin

Okay, they are gender neutral electrons....................


22 posted on 02/16/2021 8:28:40 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: nevergore

See post #21 for ‘slight correction’ to my oversimplified explanation, from takebackaustin......................


23 posted on 02/16/2021 8:32:50 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Silly me....here I thought this was a physics discussion of superconductors......

Now I will have to get a bag of Cheetos and a six-pack of Jolt cola and head to my basement computer to ponder......


24 posted on 02/16/2021 8:34:06 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Imaginary Dragons are Radioactive....................

https://youtu.be/kgS33TnYZI0


25 posted on 02/16/2021 8:35:06 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: Red Badger; All

OK, off topic tip. If anyone is lookin for strong magnets 🧲 Heard it on yojtube, haven’t tried it out yet to see if true r not though. Supposedly the old hdd’s have “rare earth magnets 🧲 in them. Supposed to be pretty powerful. Not sure where they located. But shouldn’t b hard to find if they are there.

J9ust look up first to see if true though. I haven’t had time, but will do so I. A few minutes


26 posted on 02/16/2021 8:36:19 AM PST by Bob434
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To: lowbridge

I know, right? Any third grade student knows that 😆


27 posted on 02/16/2021 8:37:08 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Tiny..........................


28 posted on 02/16/2021 8:37:17 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: Red Badger

ok, If that helps you ... I would think of happily married couples having fewer interruptions on the dance floor, if we are going there. :)


29 posted on 02/16/2021 8:37:48 AM PST by takebackaustin
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To: Red Badger

Not gender neutral....each has an opposite spin but when combined they are neutral per post #21.

That would make them heterosexual.....Two different combining as one to superconduct......

These are very naughty electrons!😏


30 posted on 02/16/2021 8:38:48 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: Red Badger

They looked an ok size on the following sire that shows how to get at them they look to be about 3 inches long or so, but are pretty powerful. I will make a knife sharpening jig which will use one to secure the knife to the ret to hold it steady while sharpening *(plus have a backrest to keep the knife j. Position too). The 3 inch magn e t should be perfed ft size for that

Here’s a ,ink if you wanna see how to remove them

https://www.instructables.com/Rare-Earth-Magnets-From-Old-Hard-Drives/


31 posted on 02/16/2021 8:47:26 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

How old of a hard drive?

My old hard drive is barely 3 inches total!..............


32 posted on 02/16/2021 8:58:17 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: Red Badger

Ah, it s gotta be the old larger ones, can’t remember the size now, but over 5 inches I beleive, the old PC hdds. Not laptop ones, though those might have them too, but smaller. If you have a computer repair shop nearby, you could prolly get some real cheap, ask for junk ones. I got a few that way. But also have 4 or so left over fro pre sdd days


33 posted on 02/16/2021 9:28:45 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

The link shows the size, though they do show smaller ones next to it in first photo too, so they likely have magnets too


34 posted on 02/16/2021 9:30:02 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

“But, sometimes, electrons that spin is the same direction will ‘stick together’ and sync their spins.

Get enough of these electrons to sync up and they will superconduct.”

Wait around long enough, and particle science always circles back to “spinning vortices in the ether”, even if they use different terms each time they head back in that direction.


35 posted on 02/16/2021 9:32:23 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

Everything is waves. And 2 waves can combine in a semi-permanent traveling standing wave.

*taakes a bow*


36 posted on 02/16/2021 9:40:20 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: blackpacific
Mathematicians tend to name important concepts after themselves, it totally throws people like me who do not see value in memorizing names and associating them with concepts. It would be better if things like “eigenvalues” were named for what they are and not after the German or French dude that discovered them.

Poor choice of example on your part. Eigen is the German word translating roughly to "own" or "characteristic of" which is what an Eigenvalue is.

Diagonalize the matrix representation of a quantum mechanical operator and the values down the diagonal, the eigenvalues, are the allowed values of that operator; if they are strictly real (non-imaginary) they correspond to the physical measurements. Also, such matrices are Hermitian -- their transpose is equal to their complex conjugate; which for diagonal elements requires them to be real.

(Memory from 30+ years ago.)

37 posted on 02/16/2021 11:07:00 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: takebackaustin

+1. More concise than my explanation, thank you.


38 posted on 02/16/2021 11:07:29 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Red Badger
My old hard drive is barely 3 inches total!..............

Too Much Information.™ :-D

39 posted on 02/16/2021 11:08:14 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: blackpacific
eigen is a German word meaning proper. It's not the name of a mathematician.
40 posted on 02/16/2021 11:33:47 AM PST by Myrddin
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