You'll soon get to play No Mans Sky in 8k at 120 fps.

Tell me what this is in normal person terms right now

No I don't want to hear that it's a magical superconductor that doesn't generate heat or whatever

Pick a lane

Does it levitate

In a magnetic field at room temperature and ambient pressure, yes.

Is this witchcraft

Everything is witchcraft. UAPs are real but Western debunktards can't handle that fact. RTAPSCs are real but Western debunktards can't handle that fact. Magick is real but Western debunktards can't handle that fact.

What we are seeing here in political terms is the absolute ineptitude of American "Science" at keeping up with the bleeding edge. We've DEI'ed ourself to death. American Science is a cargo cult of Soviet Lysenkoism which is a cargo cult of the Enlightenment which is a cargo cult of Kabbalah. Ever since the Jews stopped running the world the West was doomed to disintegrate.

It makes computers go very fast while staying cool. Let's you make levitating trains. Might make fusion economical.

We need less energy to power our electronics and we need less complicated heat management systems to keep devices from blowing up. The novel material they're using is a composite of very simple and available things.

The released preprint does not give exact instructions, and a final draft will eventually be released, but the implications of this discovery could increase global GDP by tens of trillions of dollars by the end of the decade. So many labs are motivated to crack the preprint and replicate the experiment, with more established labs being slower to do so because of the reputational risk of calling this wrong.

I don't know if I believe it yet, but if it is replicated by a non-foreign lab, I'm quitting my job on the spot and pivoting into tech.

the magneticism/levitation is just visual proof that the superconductor is working but is super unimportant for what it does, which is send energy from the source to circuits.

This tells me you're gay

Really fast trains and cheap electricity and your phone won't run out of battery so fast

My professor said if any of us proved P=NP, created a room temperature superconductor, or became a wealthy tech morgul and donated lots of money to the university-- then they would get the funding to build a new "state of the art" computer science, math & physics building, instead of us having to use the shittiest, draftiest, building on campus full of rats. Then he said they would probably name the new building after us and posthumously add a statue of us in the front.

He was daydreaming real hard about not hearing the ceiling tile rats anymore lmao

It's the holy grail of materials science. Imagine being around in the bronze age and then someone shows up with iron. This is the iron - superior in every way to existing materials.

From my perspective, all of this could be wrong -

Server costs disappear, the unbelievable cooling issues in these massive server farms just aren't much of an issue any more and power draw goes WAY down

Graphics cards become so fast it will be unimaginable by today's standards

Same for CPUs, anything computer related constrained by temperature

Quantum computing becomes practical and the field of encryption changes overnight

The implications of all the above on everything else

Webdevs will have to bloat websites to never before heard of sizes to make up the difference but I know we have it in us.

Example, Microsoft doing insane shit like this just wont be necessary any more

Google equivalent timestamp

well, it's pretty cool. Superconducting shit levitates when you put it over a magnet and that's awesome, I want one on my desk.

It could lead to viable stellarator fusion reactors.

A transistor is just a slightly better vacuum triode. People had been trying to build one for 30 years before someone finally figured out how. For the first ten years after invention transistors were only used to make slightly better tone generators and telephone switches, and similar marginal improvements, it took a while (and a lot of further inventions) before we started building computers with them.

What new horrors are we gonna create with RTAP superconductors? Who could have predicted Tiktok when the first transistor was invented?

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But there are a few very interesting applications that are already known, e.g.:

Superconducting magnets are essential for all known nuclear fusion designs. The magnets need to be as close as possible to the (incredibly hot) plasma they must hold in place (it's not allowed to touch the walls!).

The necessary shielding and machinery to cool the magnets down to -400°F takes a lot of space (aside from being very difficult engineering), so the magnets we use now are three feet away from the plasma. If we had similarly "good" superconducting magnets as the ones we're currently using, but ones that work at +200°F, the distance might be less than one foot. As you know from playing with magnets as a kid, the strength of a magnetic field decreases rapidly with distance.

I can't tell if you're pretending to be stupid or not.

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but the new one doesn't have to be

Does it fly

Kinda, with the power of magnets and shiet.

pass electricity with absolutely zero loss

You have any idea how much electricity gets lost in transmission network losses? It's a lot.

Transmission losses make it impossible to put, like, 100km² of solar panels in the sahara desert and power europe

Do you get it yet?

if no energy is lost, no heat

so if you put tiny stable room temperature superconductors in computer chips

then there won't be anymore computer fans

Are you saying that its... a series of tubes?