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Originally posted by wavemaker
It says that the video has been removed by the user. Did anyone able to save the videos?
Originally posted by FalselyFlagged
That way tons of people will find out.
Originally posted by badw0lf
reply to post by zorgon
Aww that's one of them old fashioned super cooled superconductors...
I still think they're pretty neat tho, even if impractical.
The short answer is that the temperature in space is approximately 2.725 Kelvin. That means the universe is generally just shy of three degrees above absolute zero – the temperature at which molecules themselves stop moving. That’s almost -270 degrees Celsius, or -455 Fahrenheit.
An apparatus has been constructed and tested in which the superconductor is subjected to peak currents in excess of 10^4 A, surface potentials in excess of 1 MV, trapped magnetic field up to 1 T, and temperature down to 40 K.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Originally posted by badw0lf
reply to post by zorgon
Aww that's one of them old fashioned super cooled superconductors...
I still think they're pretty neat tho, even if impractical.
What makes them impractical?
The short answer is that the temperature in space is approximately 2.725 Kelvin. That means the universe is generally just shy of three degrees above absolute zero – the temperature at which molecules themselves stop moving. That’s almost -270 degrees Celsius, or -455 Fahrenheit.
From here
And, according to Podkletnov:
An apparatus has been constructed and tested in which the superconductor is subjected to peak currents in excess of 10^4 A, surface potentials in excess of 1 MV, trapped magnetic field up to 1 T, and temperature down to 40 K.
From here
It is only somewhat impractical when used solely for Earth based projects. However, in "heavy lift" operations and subsequent space travel, there is hardly anything that makes it impractical. All sorts of things become superconductive in space. To an extent that I would suspect that if we don't research THAT phenomenon a little better we are not only doing our space efforts injustice, but putting them in danger.
It's highly astonishing that they admitted it at all. Let's see, a thin "cloud" of H and He at about 6000K (sort of a sparsely populated partially ionized plasma with a temperature near that at the surface of the sun) and a mysterious magnetic field. Wait; wait, there's more! Moving ions, and their buddies, moving electrons, in a low density plasma undergo neutralizing collisions only rarely, especially if magnetically field aligned, and their relative motions eventually set up currents with their constant companion, magnetic fields. But zounds, that means that this huge cloud must be a giant current or current sheet or perhaps a current filament when its radius is estimated. Danger, danger, Will Robinson! 41% probability of stellar electrocution and death of stellar system!
Originally posted by FalselyFlagged
Hmmm... I figured this being ATS and all, more people might be interested in how anti-gravity and new energies work....
Considering that this also solves most of the paradoxes of the quantum world, including particle / wave duality, i think its pretty important.
Given the significance of such a discovery, it is initially curious that a scientist would seek to be removed from receiving credit for it. Yet in the context of what had happened to Pons and Fleischmann over "cold fusion" just a few years before, it makes more sense. Pons and Fleischmann were vilified by the scientific community and the press when it was reported by M.I.T. (the leading recipient of Federal funding for "Hot Fusion" research that they had failed to reproduce the results reported by the two University of Utah chemists. This finding by M.I.T. has been used as the basis for denying all attempts to patent a "cold fusion" device in the United States. What was never reported was that Dr. Eugene Mallove of M.I.T. had subsequently discovered that the data presented in M.I.T.'s response had been edited, and that the M.I.T. device had indeed produced more energy than had been put into it. M.I.T. had simply made sure that no one in the United States would take "cold fusion" seriously, thereby guaranteeing their steady supply of "hot fusion" funding. Like "cold fusion" and "extraterrestrial artifacts," "anti-gravity" is a so-called "third rail" of science. One of those subjects you just don't touch if you want to have a career.
Clarification From: "Christy Frazier"
To: Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:26 AM
Subject: re: Mallove's Last Words Sterling:
Please note, and correct where appropriate, that the Open Letter you reference by Gene Mallove was NOT given [first] to Hoagland just hours before Gene's death. It was written months before and placed on the Infinite Energy Website for a time. Gene sent it initially to hundreds of colleagues and, I believe, used it at later dates as an information tool to others, including Hoagland. Thanks. Christy Frazier General Manager New Energy Foundation
Originally posted by loner007
hmm I am thinking another crackpot. Frank znidarsic is not that well known within science circles. I have looked on the net found nothing in any respectable science blog journal or anything else. All that mention his name are fringe sites and angelfire. I see no mention of this supposed paper at the institute of physics anywhere and usually theres always someone talking about something especially if its going to revolutionise our understanding of physics.