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U.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like material — controllable variation breaks temperature records (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It’s already been published. But it’s superconducting at 10 K. This is a new high temperature record, but pretty far from room temperature.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah the headline makes you think it's even within "normal" temperatures, and then you see that it's like 10°C ~~below~~ above Absolute Zero.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nitpicky but it's above absolute zero

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even if it was somehow 10° below absolute zero, it would still be 10° above absolute zero

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I thought negative Kelvin were sometimes used to describe very very high temperatures but I could be wrong.

Thanks for the downvotes y'all, enjoy being wrong:

" Negative absolute temperatures (or negative Kelvin temperatures) are hotter than all positive temperatures - even hotter than infinite temperature."