Stuff that doesn't really fit in either "Examples of" thread....

[DIY-HP-LED]

It’ll be nice when they can serially produce buttons or ingots that levitate completely,
and can draw wires long and good enough to make cryogen-free field magnets for, say, MRI.

If it is for real, then many will jump on it making improvements etc, with today's scientific environment connected by the internet answers (informal at least) won't be long coming for fundamental research like this.

 

[cannabineer]

Science these days is global involving thousands of institutions and tens of thousands of scientists specializing in some areas, everybody is connected with the internet and things don't need to be formally published and peer reviewed for someone else to get in on the action and duplicate the experiments, scientists crow and gossip like everybody else.

arXiv is a sort of insurance for “hey we did it first”.

 

[cannabineer]

If it is for real, then many will jump on it making improvements etc, with today's scientific environment connected by the internet answers (informal at least) won't be long coming for fundamental research like this.

Indeed. With the principle established, the rest is technology.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

arXiv is a sort of insurance for “hey we did it first”.

Publishing scientific bullshit happens, but these days it is a quick way to the unemployment line, the loss of tenure and a career. People forgive intellectual mistakes much more readily than moral lapses, even in science, everybody makes honest mistakes.

 

[cannabineer]

Publishing scientific bullshit happens, but these days it is a quick way to the unemployment line, the loss of tenure and a career. People forgive intellectual mistakes much more readily than moral lapses, even in science, everybody makes honest mistakes.

arXiv allows researchers to get the news out while awaiting peer review. It’s a big difference from decades ago when I was a bit player. Not everything in arXiv survives, but a lot of cool shit sees first light there.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Indeed. With the principle established, the rest is technology.

Yep, but it can also open new doors of research and understanding that could be applied to other fields, the resultant technology could be for things like MRI, long distance power transmission and computing. Depending on the properties it could lead to a revolution in electronics, imagine room temp super conductors and the circuit possibilities for conventional and quantum computing. I expect them to be on this like stink on shit, if there is anything to it.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

arXiv allows researchers to get the news out while awaiting peer review. It’s a big difference from decades ago when I was a bit player. Not everything in arXiv survives, but a lot of cool shit sees first light there.

I used to get scientific American back in the stone age, dry as bones and that was sort of general science news to keep scientists and others up to speed in various other fields. The internet changed a lot of things for science and sped up the pace of events considerably, news now spreads at the speed of light and researchers in every field are connected globally in a community.

 

[cannabineer]

Yep, but it can also open new doors of research and understanding that could be applied to other fields, the resultant technology could be for things like MRI, long distance power transmission and computing. Depending on the properties it could lead to a revolution in electronics, imagine room temp super conductors and the circuit possibilities for conventional and quantum computing. I expect them to be on this like stink on shit, if there is anything to it.

AIUI these superconductors have a somewhat coarse minimum scale. So I imagine use in submicron-scale circuits might not happen this century. It might require true nanotechnology of the sort where the blueprint specifies which atom goes where. 3D printing taken to the obvious limit.

 

[cannabineer]

I used to get scientific American back in the stone age, dry as bones and that was sort of general science news to keep scientists and others up to speed in various other fields. The internet changed a lot of things for science and sped up the pace of events considerably, news now spreads at the speed of light and researchers in every field are connected globally in a community.

Compared to the Journal of Organic Chemistry, SciAm was Jerry Springer lively.

I mean, I grooved hard on organic. But JOC was a big bowl of All-Bran with no milk. If you had a figurative antihistamine and your mouth was dry, it was a day’s work right there to masticate your way through an article.

“My church frowns on mastication, Professor. Find some heathen.” abort retry fail

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

AIUI these superconductors have a somewhat coarse minimum scale. So I imagine use in submicron-scale circuits might not happen this century. It might require true nanotechnology of the sort where the blueprint specifies which atom goes where. 3D printing taken to the obvious limit.

I was thinking more along the lines of quantum computing and the rapid development of new components for it by MIT and others. For conventional electronics who knows what applications such a thing could have, perhaps not conventional computing, but there could be plenty of applications. As you said when the underlying principles are understood and formulas based on them are created defining the properties, then it becomes engineering. However new applications are usually found in the process and there is a lot of creativity involved in making practical things from a fundamental discovery like this, if true.

It won't take long to know more with today's internet, this is Nobel territory, or a Holy Grail at least.

 

[cannabineer]

I was thinking more along the lines of quantum computing and the rapid development of new components for it by MIT and others. For conventional electronics who knows what applications such a thing could have, perhaps not conventional computing, but there could be plenty of applications. As you said when the underlying principles are understood and formulas based on them are created defining the properties, then it becomes engineering. However new applications are usually found in the process and there is a lot of creativity involved in making practical things from a fundamental discovery like this, if true.

It won't take long to know more with today's internet, this is Nobel territory, or a Holy Grail at least.

I’ll settle for

 

[printer]

You mean we will not need cold fusion now that we have room temperature superconductors?

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

You mean we will not need cold fusion now that we have room temperature superconductors?

The theorists haven't been on the war path over this one from the get-go like cold fusion, this is the internet age so expect answers quickly for something like this. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and get a lot of scrutiny.

 

[cannabineer]

You mean we will not need cold fusion now that we have room temperature superconductors?

Cold Fusion is still making names for those with culinary ambition.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Room Temperature Superconductors - This Changes EVERYTHING!

Physics has always been my favorite field of study. Everything from how planes fly, to how solar panels work... but in the quantum world, things get weird and interesting. This new breakthrough coming out of Korea has the potential to be one of the biggest breakthroughs of the CENTURY. A room temperature, ambient pressure Superconductor. So how exactly does it work, is this research legit, and why does it matter? Let's figure this out together!

 

[cannabineer]

This is strange and worrisome. An opaque partnership buying land surrounding an AFB.

Mystery group buying land near Air Force base sues farmers: Rep.

“The fact they chose to buy all three sides of the Travis Air Force Base even raises immediate questions about national security,” Garamendi said.

www.newsnationnow.com

They’ve been paying local farmers more than top dollar, and are now suing to recover some costs.

Public records show “Flannery Associates” has invested more than $800 million on more than 50,000 acres of land surrounding the Travis Air Force Base since 2018.

(…)

“It’s a suit designed to force the farmers to lawyer up, spend tens of thousands of dollars on lawyering and maybe at the end of the day, bankrupt themselves,” Garamendi said. “In fact, that has happened to at least one family that I know of and I’ve heard rumors that another family simply said we can’t afford the lawyers.”

NewsNation reviewed a copy of the lawsuit. Attorneys for Flannery say they believe “this is a simple case about a group of wealthy landowners who saw an opportunity to conspire, collude, price fix and illegally overcharge Flannery.”

Nonsense. The mystery men signed and paid, so this is an old-fashioned squeeze. The conspiracy is the one pointing fingers.

But, Garamendi says there was no viable, economic reason to justify spending several times more than what the land is worth in the first place.

(…)

Legal representation for Flannery says the group is controlled by U.S. citizens, with 97% of its capital coming from U.S.-based investors. But after eight months of investigation, federal officials can’t confirm or deny this to be true and have not been able to determine exactly who is backing the company.

The Air Force’s Foreign Investment Risk Review office is currently investigating Flannery Associates. Garamendi says there are valid concerns that Flannery’s land acquisitions could be tied to foreign enemies.

 

[Fogdog]

Room Temperature Superconductors - This Changes EVERYTHING!

Physics has always been my favorite field of study. Everything from how planes fly, to how solar panels work... but in the quantum world, things get weird and interesting. This new breakthrough coming out of Korea has the potential to be one of the biggest breakthroughs of the CENTURY. A room temperature, ambient pressure Superconductor. So how exactly does it work, is this research legit, and why does it matter? Let's figure this out together!

"Let's figure this out in a you tube video."

Shakes head in irritation.

 

[cannabineer]

"Let's figure this out in a you tube video."

Shakes head in irritation.

There’s stuff on the Tube (presented entirely without irony) that makes Infowars sound like sober journalism.

 

[Fogdog]

If it is for real, then many will jump on it making improvements etc, with today's scientific environment connected by the internet answers (informal at least) won't be long coming for fundamental research like this.

Maybe this is what Trump is thinking about using in Agenda 47, you tube video 3: Rescuing America’s Auto Industry from Joe Biden’s Disastrous Job-Killing Policies.

Flying Cars!!!

But it will have to be done using unobtainium that is made in America.

 

[Fogdog]

There’s stuff on the Tube (presented entirely without irony) that makes Infowars sound like sober journalism.

"secrets never before seen by the public presented here on you tube"

lol