RED FLAGS! Room Temperature Superconductor or FRAUD? Jorge Hirsch on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#316)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/cAMSoAUo288 UC San Diego Physics Professor Jorge Hirsch... ...joins Professor Brian Keating to discuss recent claimed a breakthrough in high-temperature superconductors, including claims they work at near ambient pressure and temperature. Here come cheap magnetic levitating trains, low-loss power distribution, free MRI scanners in every clinic…. Or not? Watch my solo episode about the controversial claims here: https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4 Since the discovery of superconductors in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, earning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics, they have been the subject of much fascination and inquiry. Some of the greatest minds in physics have grappled with how superconductivity works to drive electrical resistance to 0. The 1972 Nobel prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer "for their BCS theory of superconductivity. Now the race is on to get the highest temperature superconductor possible; another Nobel Prize was awarded just for getting the temperature up to 35K or -396 Fahrenheit! Superconducting has remained impractical, until now... Maybe! The HUGE claim: zero resistance, at temperatures up to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Is it a scientific breakthrough, or is it very probably fraud? The Nature Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05742-0 Key Concepts: Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without resistance. Room-temperature superconductors would have a wide range of potential applications, including in power transmission, medical imaging, and quantum computing. The researchers at the University of Rochester claim to have discovered a room-temperature superconductor. However, there are some concerns about the validity of the research. It is too early to say whether the discovery is a breakthrough or a fraud. Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join To advertise with us, contact [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the experiments on the hydrides people claim to have seen the first type of experiment where if you apply a magnetic field to a superconductor, it doesn't go inside, it gets repelled.
0:18.0	But when they do the other experiment, which is they cool the system in the presence of a magnetic field, they don't see a signal.
0:26.2	And I think that's a red flag that says these are not really superconductors.
0:30.5	We'll see. Welcome everyone to this special episode of Into the Impossible.
0:38.0	Here is the much anticipated follow-up to your host Professor Brian Keating's superconductor
0:44.1	showdown solo episode. In his first podcast interview veteran UC San Diego
0:50.7	physics professor and inventor of the famed H-index, Jorge Hirsch, provides a
0:56.5	crash course and superconductors and defends his critique of the now famous or infamous
1:02.1	paper published in Nature this past March. The paper, with
1:06.4	the not so memorable title, Evidence of Near Ambient Superconnectivity and an n-doped Lutichium hydride was published by Ranga Dias and his team at the
1:16.6	University of Rochester, New York. Following his publication, the paper has triggered a
1:21.1	firestorm of hype and controversy.
1:23.0	Listen now and get the facts firsthand so you can draw your own conclusions.
1:28.0	Do you think Professor Hirsch should have been penalized with a temporary publishing ban?
1:34.0	Do you think his critique is too harsh?
1:36.2	Are the seemingly magical properties of superconducting materials about to revolutionize almost
1:40.6	every modern technology? Is Dr. Diaz on the short list for a Nobel Prize?
1:45.5	In this episode, Professors Keating and Hersch, don't hold anything back and give
1:50.7	you the facts so you can decide.
1:53.0	Please keep into the impossible in your feed by subscribing and following.
1:58.0	For some extra credit, jump over to YouTube
2:01.0	at Dr. Brian Keating, that's D.R. Brian Keating, where you can see the video version of
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