Sunday, 29 January 2017

Physicists have found a metal that conducts electricity but not heat.

quote [ The metal contradicts something called the Wiedemann-Franz Law, which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why things like motors and appliances get so hot when you use them regularly. ]

H.P. L. beat me to the punch on the National Security Council insanity, so here's some cool science, instead.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+4]
[by midden@8:19pmGMT]

Comments

mechavolt said[1] @ 8:30pm GMT on 29th Jan
Fuck you, laws of physics.

--vanadium dioxide
HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 8:52pm GMT on 29th Jan
Cool science. Cool science. COOL science.

Odd choice of words.
Ankylosaur said @ 8:54pm GMT on 29th Jan
Shocking science!
HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 8:57pm GMT on 29th Jan
Shockingly cool?
midden said @ 2:59am GMT on 30th Jan
I noticed it after switching the post, and consider it a happy accident.
donnie said @ 10:27pm GMT on 29th Jan
...which is why things like motors and appliances get so hot when you use them regularly

Um, no. That is just braindead wrong. Who do they get to write this crap, anyway? The people who all failed science class?
damnit said @ 2:08am GMT on 30th Jan
You're expecting a lot from an unknown science article aggregator website like Sciencealert
midden said[1] @ 3:00am GMT on 30th Jan
Unfortunately, the source article is behind the Science magazine paywall.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6323/371
rhesusmonkey said @ 5:48am GMT on 30th Jan
Fuck friction, amirite?
Kelyn said @ 12:44pm GMT on 30th Jan
Without friction fucking would be kinda boring.
mechanical contrivance said @ 4:16pm GMT on 30th Jan
Sex at the speed of light in a frictionless vacuum.

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