🧵 Post 2 / 3 — Removing Hand-Waving
🌀 Where the hand-waving usually starts
In many explanations we’re told: • “electrons form clouds”
• “bonds form by overlap”
• “Cooper pairs move without resistance”
All true — but often mechanically vague.
Using explicit phase, boundary, and flux constraints, many topics become clearer without contradicting known physics: electron orbitals, bonding (covalent/ionic/metallic), reaction selectivity, and even superconductivity (Cooper pairs, flux exclusion).
Probability remains — but it’s no longer doing all the explanatory work.
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#Chemistry #PhysicalChemistry #CondensedMatter #Superconductivity
#BeyondHandWaving #MechanicsAndProbability

Room temperature superconductivity.

MATTG is Magic Angle Twisted Tri-layer Graphene.

This stuff actually exists, and is measured and explained in scientific papers.

Fortunately, MIT published an explainer that doesn't hurt your head so much. (It can't yet support a faster-than-sound passenger train...)

The cool picture explainer is in the description.

https://news.mit.edu/2025/physicists-observe-evidence-unconventional-superconductivity-graphene-1106
Image: Sampson Wilcox and Emily Theobald, MIT RLE
#Physics #Superconductivity #Graphene

Team develops high-speed, ultra-low-power superconductive neuron device

A research team has developed a neuron device that holds potential for application in large-scale, high-speed superconductive neural network circuits. The device operates at high speeds with ultra-low-power consumption and is tolerant to parameter fluctuations during circuit fabrication.

Tech Xplore
A team of three wins the Nobel Prize .. and two of them are immigrants to the USA. Funny how that works. #Superconductivity #QuantumTunnelling
https://mastodon.social/@startswithabang/115339336339914643
Discover which electrical property plays a key role in superconductivity. Learn how zero resistance and perfect conductivity revolutionize energy transmission and quantum technologies.
#Superconductivity #ZeroResistance #QuantumPhysics #ElectricityExplained #PhysicsFacts
https://www.scientificworldinfo.com/2025/10/which-property-of-electricity-is-relevant-to-superconductivity.html
Which Property of Electricity is Relevant to Superconductivity?

Superconductivity unlocks the future of energy and technology. Learn which property of electricity makes it possible, why resistance disappe...

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. This isn't just a cool demo; it has real-world applications like frictionless bearings, advanced medical imaging, and even high-speed rail systems! Researchers are exploring its potential for ultra-fast, levitating trains. Quantum mechanics meets engineering in this breakthrough that's turning sci-fi into reality. #Superconductivity #ScienceFacts #FutureTech #QuantumPhysics #Innovation #Levitation (2/2)
A strange quantum effect could power future electronics

Rice University physicists confirmed that flat electronic bands in kagome superconductors aren’t just theoretical, they actively shape superconductivity and magnetism. This breakthrough could guide the design of next-generation quantum materials and technologies.

ScienceDaily

Material #Science As Gateway Drug Dept : This will absolutely yield advances in engineering purpose built topologies and #Metamaterials in applications. Those applications span a wide range of previously out of reach technical requirements in areas like #QuantumComputing and #Superconductivity. It’s a big deal. Probably not always simple tho

Via SciDaily:

A Simple Twist Unlocks Never Before Seen Quantum Behavior

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250710113201.htm

A simple twist unlocks never-before-seen quantum behavior

Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method for creating quantum states by twisting materials at the M-point, revealing exotic phenomena previously out of reach. This new direction dramatically expands the moiré toolkit and may soon lead to the experimental realization of long-sought quantum spin liquids.

ScienceDaily
#Nobel laureate Leon Cooper (1930 - 2024) in his office at Brown University in 1967. He was a #physicist who created the theory of how #superconductivity works. I finally identified the #calculator on his desk. It is a Smith Corona Marchant. A rebadged German made Diehl Transmatic S. It is electro-mechanical.
In 1956 #physicist Leon Cooper published a theory of how #superconductivity works. The electrons in a conductor become bound together to form Cooper pairs. This is the second, hand written, draft of his paper. #manuscript #quantum