Room-temperature superconductivity?

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I have to apologize. I did not receive notices from Polywell and thought the discussion has ended. Furthermore my books have sold so well that I was busy nearly full time mailing them off. I will receive the second printing on Tuesday 9 November.
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zDarby wrote:Not just a law: When you move an electric field, you get a magnetic field.
I meant to say "electric charge" not "electric field".
You were correct in the first instance: When an electric-field changes with time it DOES induce a magnetic field. When a solitary charge moves with a constant speed it does not induce a magnetic field since there is no electric-field energy around a solitary charge.
when a solitary charge passes you by with a constant velocity there is also no magnetic field.
This is counter to what I thought I knew about experimental evidence. Can you site an experiment that shows this is the case? ... It is my understanding a solitary moving charge *does* exhibit a magnetic field. I could easily be wrong, but that's what I understood to be true. I shall try to find an example in experiment.
Show me your experimental evidence. There exists NO such experimental evidence just as there exists no experimental evidence that there is an electric field around a solitary charge. It is you who have to supply the experimental evidence.
Maxwell's equations are great! They perfectly describe what happens when two electric charges are moving compared to eachother. But they describe a law, not a theory. Which is to say, they describe what happens, not why.
That is correct: Maxwell's equations are ONLY valid BETWEEN charges and BETWEEN charges moving relative to each other. This is why there cannot be a magnetic field formed by a solitary moving charge.
When earlier I spoke of photons, I was quoting current physics dogma. As flawed as it is, current dogma does portray a why --a theory-- for the magnetic field.
Where does current dogma describe a WHY. You could have fooled me!
What I'm asking is if you have a preferred theory --again, not a 'what' but a 'why'; or, if you prefer: not a description but an explanation-- for magnetic fields?
The why will come when we abort the ridiculous "principle of complementarity" which is responsible for causing a barrier between Einstein's general theory of relativity and "quantum mechanics". In my book I explain why we cannot yet fully understand why owing to the stupidities inherent in the Copenhagen interpretation.
Ok. just to make sure I understood you correctly:
Superconductivity in chilled mercury is the effect of a singular wave.
But superconductivity in your diamond substrate is of many different waves tunneling in concert, if not in unison.
The term tunneling is also based on Copenhagen. Tunneling does NOT occur. What happens is that a wave borrows energy(delta)E for a time interval (delta)t to scale a barrier: I call this barrier jumping. Barrier jumping is the mechanism by which all traditional superconductors (also mercury) transfer charge.
Are you saying that you did expose it to a magnetic field and nothing interesting happened?;
Yes, and in terms of barrier jumping it is clear that it must be so.
Well, first to be certain that what you expect to happen is, in fact, what happens. After all, when things don't do what you expect them to, that's when exciting new insights take place!
Exactly: this what happened when I extracted electrons from a diamond up to the point where the electric-field MUST be zero; and instead of the current falling to zero it kept on flowing.
But, just as importantly, comparing the magnetic field strength and polarity to the flow of current will tell you what the relationship is between the charge carriers and the current. And you'll have measured the data experimentally, not calculated it theoretically. I got the impression you had already done this. Was I wrong?
As far as the electron phase extracted from the diamond is concerned, this phase is the first REAL demonstration of Bose Einstein Condensate formed by electrons. It has no separate electrons, just like a laser beam has no separate photons. Thus the electrons transfer current by means of a non-local mechanism. In the traditional superconductors there are separately identifiable charge-carriers and if you do your measurements correctly you find that they are all fermions and can therefore NOT form a Bose-Einstein Condensate.
Yeah. I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I wrote that. I'll chock it up to it being late, or something. :oops:
I am glad that you responded on this. This is exactly the reason why a Bohr atom cannot have a magnetic moment. If you choose the electron circling the proton as generating the magnetic moment, you get an opposite magnetic moment to the one you obtain when you decide that it is the proton circling the electron. In fact it is both the proton AND the electron circling their mutual center of mass. Thus the total current is zero so that according to Ampere's law there cannot be a magnetic moment.
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GIThruster wrote:I think it still remains to be seen whether this technique Johan says he has can be applied to more than surface materials. That's why I pointed out the group from Germany; their "windows' are more than ultra-thin substrates. They have both. Now if Johan's technique works, and if it can be applied to bulk materials and not just the surface, you can indeed grow very large diamond rings just for your Poly and put fantastic currents through it at high temp, A Poly is just one fabulous application.
The ceramic superconductors consist solely of superconducting materials which form on surfaces adjacent to interlayer spaces. The charge-carriers ARE NOT within the crystallographic layers but ON the surfaces. They are "bulk" because these surface layers are stacked. Thus if you can generate surface layers which super-conduct there is no reason not to go bulk.

It has to be kept out of the "public domain" for now!!

Te ceramics can, however, not superconduct ever above 250 K. In fact I gave up looking for traditional superconduction after I realized this. Fortunately I recently have had a breakthrough; which I do not want to expand on since the PCT patent examiner proved to be an idiot. We are now reformulating the patent to try and make it "idiot-proof". Therefore I am not willing to expand on how one can break the barrier which limits traditional superconductors to a critical temperature of less than 250 K

It must be kept out of the "public domain" at present. I hate patents!!!
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ladajo wrote:Johann,
What do you think of this?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 092602.htm
Irrelevant as far as superconduction at room temperature is concerned. I do not want to expand at this stage.

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TallDave wrote:Thanks for the link. I'd hoped that was possible, but Johan's comment threw some cold water on that idea. I'm not certain what exactly the properties of his substrates are. Maybe he'll stop by and elaborate on the application limits.
I would like to elaborate and have been hoping that I would soon be able to do so. But after the insane comments by the PCT patent examiner I would rather not do so. I am, however, sure that what you are worrying about is technology that should be achievable for the class of materials that I can modify to bridge the critical temperature limit of 250 K.

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Thanks for elucidating and glad to hear your books are selling well. I'll be ordering mine tonight, they look very nice and professionally done. The website does as well, you must have upgraded it since I've seen it last.
n*kBolt*Te = B**2/(2*mu0) and B^.25 loss scaling? Or not so much? Hopefully we'll know soon...

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I am also glad to hear you've needed a second printing so soon. ;)

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Johan, care to read this paper and give us your opinion?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0793


We are discussing it here:
viewtopic.php?t=2704

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Giorgio wrote:Johan, care to read this paper and give us your opinion?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0793


We are discussing it here:
viewtopic.php?t=2704
It will take a bit of time to read through this paper. My tensor analysis has become very rusty from what it was 40 years ago. Nonetheless, I can already see a problem. In all quantum field theories, phase angles are used which are not physically possible for any harmonic wave: For example, it leads to coherent, harmonic waves which supposedly can follow circular paths; while harmonic wave-fields are always conservative.

A circular coherent harmonic wave can never be a solution of any harmonic differential wave-equation, since coherent wave movement is only possible along a straight line or along a radial directions. It is this mistake which led Dirac to deduce incorrectly that monopoles can exist and also leads to conservative vector-fields being treated as if the can be circular; as is done when deriving the flux quantum that can be trapped through a superconducting ring: This derivation then gives the incorrect result that the charge-carriers are doubly-charged; which they are not.

Nonetheless I will come back after having had the time to read the manuscript.

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Johan

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Johan,
Thanks as always for sharing. Giorgio, grazie a lei. Ho dimenticato a fare il post qui per questa. :)

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Piacere mio :)

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johanfprins wrote:
GIThruster wrote:I think it still remains to be seen whether this technique Johan says he has can be applied to more than surface materials. That's why I pointed out the group from Germany; their "windows' are more than ultra-thin substrates. They have both. Now if Johan's technique works, and if it can be applied to bulk materials and not just the surface, you can indeed grow very large diamond rings just for your Poly and put fantastic currents through it at high temp, A Poly is just one fabulous application.
The ceramic superconductors consist solely of superconducting materials which form on surfaces adjacent to interlayer spaces. The charge-carriers ARE NOT within the crystallographic layers but ON the surfaces. They are "bulk" because these surface layers are stacked. Thus if you can generate surface layers which super-conduct there is no reason not to go bulk.

It has to be kept out of the "public domain" for now!!

Te ceramics can, however, not superconduct ever above 250 K. In fact I gave up looking for traditional superconduction after I realized this. Fortunately I recently have had a breakthrough; which I do not want to expand on since the PCT patent examiner proved to be an idiot. We are now reformulating the patent to try and make it "idiot-proof". Therefore I am not willing to expand on how one can break the barrier which limits traditional superconductors to a critical temperature of less than 250 K

It must be kept out of the "public domain" at present. I hate patents!!!
Johan, if someone provided you with a very large diamond substrate, like this 76mm membrane:

http://www.diamond-materials.com/prod_membranes_en.htm

would you be able to treat it and send it out for four point conduction testing? Do you have the equipment for this?
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GIThruster wrote:Johan, if someone provided you with a very large diamond substrate, like this 76mm membrane:

http://www.diamond-materials.com/prod_membranes_en.htm

would you be able to treat it and send it out for four point conduction testing? Do you have the equipment for this?
Not on my present equipment: The maximum diameter I can accommodate at present is 6 mm. But it is is in principle not impossible to scale up to grow larger superconducting wafers. One should, however, remember that "scaling up" usually looks easier than it is. This I found out the hard way when I was designing high pressure systems for diamond growth: But I eventually solved that problem.

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Yes, scaling is often much more complex than it looks, especially with things like vacuum or pressure. I am still wondering though if this isn't your straightest path to success, to manufacture a very large wafer. Getting an investor to purchase one for you is probably not that difficult. The trouble is probably in the investment to build you a larger chamber. I know you don't want to give away trade secrets here, especially since you're currently having patent trouble, but can you describe in general terms what is required for the chamber? Is it vacuum or pressure, can you use acrylic, does it need impedance matched high voltage feed throughs? does scaling up require more power, etc.? What are the technical issues?

You'd be surprised what's possible with an acrylic aquarium. . .
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johanfprins wrote:
GIThruster wrote:I think it still remains to be seen whether this technique Johan says he has can be applied to more than surface materials. That's why I pointed out the group from Germany; their "windows' are more than ultra-thin substrates. They have both. Now if Johan's technique works, and if it can be applied to bulk materials and not just the surface, you can indeed grow very large diamond rings just for your Poly and put fantastic currents through it at high temp, A Poly is just one fabulous application.
The ceramic superconductors consist solely of superconducting materials which form on surfaces adjacent to interlayer spaces. The charge-carriers ARE NOT within the crystallographic layers but ON the surfaces. They are "bulk" because these surface layers are stacked. Thus if you can generate surface layers which super-conduct there is no reason not to go bulk.
So are you saying that one could lay down a chemical vapor deposition layer of diamond, then treat it to superconduct, then lay down another layer on top, treat it and repeat? Or would the successive layers interfere with superconduction?
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GIThruster wrote: You are you saying that one could lay down a chemical vapor deposition layer of diamond, then treat it to superconduct, then lay down another layer on top, treat it and repeat? Or would the successive layers interfere with superconduction?
After our PCT debacle I cannot comment any further. even if the answer might be no. Sorry. Maybe next year. There is even a possibility that I might come to the USA next year once the patent problems have been ironed out. That would be the time to discuss such issues.

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