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[Freddy]

Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity : part 3 is on tonight, BBC4, 9.00 pm.

[Data]

I watched it.

So the next thing we need to do is find a superconductor that works at room temperature, then we’ve made it 

Excellent program BBC four, keep them coming, we the public need to be educated and what a great way of doing it. 

[Freddy]

Yeah I remember way back when I was doing Physics we talked about room temperature super conductors.

It was nice and somewhat bizarrely coincidental that at the end he also demonstrated the quantum locking thing too 

I agree I could watch this kind of program every night. 

[Snowcrash]

You've actually studied physics and didn't know about anti-matter, Freddy? (I am ref'ing another thread)

I watched this too and really would like to know more but I stumble at the maths. I know what some of the symbols mean but it looses me. I am totally happy with the maths of about 400 years ago, some stuff after and as for the last 100 years; forget it.

Anyone ever heard of a 'Cooper Pair'?

[Freddy]

I only did 'O' level Physics and we never covered really exotic stuff like that.

I don't remember Cooper Pair nope.   

[Snowcrash]

To be honest, I've learnt far more since school by reading popular science books on the subject.

Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' is a good one. There are many others. Ask.

A 'Cooper Pair' is phyically what is forming to create superconductivity. 2 electrons pair up and have no resistance for some reason. Wiki here.

The holy grail is to find a room temperature superconductor. Interesting snippet in Pt3 was the use of red wine to make the superconductor more efficient. Good ol' trial and error.

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