Stanford Researchers Discover a New Phase of Matter

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[citation][nom]acadia11[/nom]He's climbing in your window snatching up your kids, hide your kids, hide you are wife, you are so dumb, really really dumb ... but here for you non-educated folks, super-conductivity allows for fast processing speeds, duh ... hence if you cooled the copper ... i.e. copper transistors and they become super conductive imagine what kind of processing speed you could achieve. So, see, if you think, it's not so dumb after all ... it was actually quite clever.[/citation]
...That doesn't seem like a very coherent response to my comment, but whatever.
 
@PreferLinux

actually not that i think his right, cause you cant easily make semi-conductor out of copper, but as the temp drops the internal resistance drops due to electrons vibrating alot less, current speed is limited by the thermal envelope, chips just cant go faster without disintegrating under the thermal load but if they were super conducting thats would all but disappear and you would no longer be limited by the thermal envelope only the speed of the electron (close to the speed of light as you quoted), for that to work though you need a super conducting semi-conductor which is almost a contradiction......
 
This is all getting a little off-topic, but I'm not at all sure you can make transistors out of copper, even if it is really cold, superconductor != semiconductor. The superconducting 'transistor' is the Josephson Junction.
 
[citation][nom]PreferLinux[/nom]And how is it faster??? The electricity is transferred from A to B at the speed of light anyway, so how does that speed it up? I guess there wouldn't be any power loss in the transistor as it would have no resistance, but that won't help much as you will still have the power loss elsewhere.[/citation]

From my understanding of a super conductor . an SC would transfer electricity with no resistance no heat and no power loss. Ac to DC conversion does waste electricity but a super conductor could help with that as well assuming we don't find a better way of the conversion.

I was also only aware of 4 states of matter.. Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
 
@EnFoRceR22

there are a further two theorized states of matter, the string-net liquid and Bose Einsteins condensate. Herbertsmithite was recently discovered to have string-net liquid like properties and while observations of boson have shown that they behave in a Bose-Einstein condensate nature

there are also sub domains of state two if given the right conditions gases can become super critical gas, there are also super solids and super liquids too
 
This phase of matter is conditional and how long doe it stays will it sustain and provide same results as semiconductors. sure its a hope but not supported by any fact or statistics it will require atleast another 4-5 years to even know if this was actually useful.
 
Did God not create a wonderful universe for us humans to learn its wonder as we continue to discover new stuff each day!? Praise Him!!
 
[citation][nom]HappyBB[/nom]Did God not create a wonderful universe for us humans to learn its wonder as we continue to discover new stuff each day!? Praise Him!![/citation]
Not that I know of. I've never seen any proof of it. And who says this particular deity is male?
 
FAIL, Tom's there is so much scientifically wrong about your post it pains me to read it QQ

Things always get bad when someone who doesn't understand what they're talking about skims an article and trys to summarize it for other people. I'm talking to you Douglas!
 
[citation][nom]EnFoRceR22[/nom]From my understanding of a super conductor . an SC would transfer electricity with no resistance no heat and no power loss. Ac to DC conversion does waste electricity but a super conductor could help with that as well assuming we don't find a better way of the conversion. I was also only aware of 4 states of matter.. Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.[/citation]

Well, much like all sciences, the education you got in freshman physics/chem is hardly the full story. Solid, liquid and gas that you learn about in high school eventually gets replaced with solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Which then eventually gets replaced with phase diagrams that get more and more complicated as you get further along.

As an example, saying something is a 'liquid' is hardly an adequate descriptor of something in fluid mechanics, because a liquid can be newtonian and non-newtonian. Also, saying non-newtonian is hardly descriptive, as saying non-newtonian is like saying something isn't red. There are shear thickening, shear thinning, bingham, super fluids... the list goes on, some of which hardly behave like liquids in your chem I book.

Solids can get even worse when you look at phase diagrams, because there's glass transition(s), phase transitions from alpha to beta to whatever. God help you if you're talking a composite solid like an alloy...
 
[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]Not that I know of. I've never seen any proof of it. And who says this particular deity is male?[/citation]
In which case you've never looked. And you have no proof against it either.
 
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