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Re: JC why do you even get involved with these things?


Don't worry Steve, I realize that you will never understand or believe it. It is just to far outside your 'box', but I do hope that others get the hint.

No, John. I understand it just fine and have no problem at all with the article. You're the one who's utterly without a clue here. So much so that it's just plain sad.


For the record, those who make the actual Bybee device, not Jack Bybee himself, told Jack to recommend to me a short article that appeared in 'Electronic Engineering Times' p. 40 Aug 14, 2006. The title is: 'Phonons may drive high-Tc superconduction'.

A short excerpt: 'Phonons are vibrations in the crystalline lattice of a material that interact with electrons by enabling pairs to overcome their natural repulsion to enter a lower-energy state called a Cooper Pair After pairing, they weave through the lattice without any of the usual atomic collisions that cause resistance.'

Yes. This is from the BCS theory of superconductivity, which is 50 years old this year.


Also, ' If the mechanism that enables high-temperature superconduction can be quantified, then designers worldwide could craft materials that eventually would enable room-temperature superconductivity.'

Certainly.


And finally: '...reveals that the mechanism causing high-temperature superconducting may be phonons after all. '

Yes.

Basically what the article is saying is that while the BCS theory has held for Type I superconductors (such as certain pure metals), they hadn't been able to observe this mechanism as being the cause in Type II superconductors (the metallic oxide ceramics). So magnetic resonance was postulated as a theory to explain superconductivity in Type II superconductors.

The article states that in the previous month, research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory indicated that magnetic resonance was the more likely cause, but that that more recent research at Cornell indicated that the BCS theory may still hold.

Here's the article for those who would like to read the whole thing rather than your carefully selected quotes:

Phonons may drive high-Tc superconduction


Well, I can't claim to completely understand it, or exactly how it relates to the Bybee device, but it sounds a lot like what Jack Bybee says about his device.

DUH! Well of course it sounds a lot like what Jack Bybee says about the device. That's because Bybee has been using the BCS theory to "explain" his devices since day one. I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR FIVE !@#$% YEARS, JOHN!

I've never had any issues with the BCS theory so don't give me this crap that I will never understand it or believe it because it's too far outside my "box." When you say shit like this it just demonstrates what an utterly clueless rube you truly are.

What I have had issues with is Bybee using the BCS theory to explain the device. Why? Because it's irrelevant.

I don't care what kind of ceramic Bybee has had cooked up for him. It's not superconductive at room temperature. It's not even "near-superconductive" at room temperature. Again, it's not even as conductive as the goddamn RESISTOR!

So while the BCS theory isn't bullshit, using it to explain how a device that's not even as conductive as a resistor is. But it's "good" bullshit in that the best bullshit exploits an element of truth, in this case the BCS theory. So that when people Google something like "Cooper pairs" they'll find something that's "real," instead of what they'd find if they Googled "pixie dust."

But this kind of bullshit relies on clueless rubes such as yourself who are so utterly devoid of any sort of critical thinking skills they'll never do any thinking beyond "Cooper pairs."

And that is why you are the one here who will "never understand."

se





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