Jay Novella

And it happens in very cold regimes.

That's where you're going to see things like superconductivity happening.

And do you guys know the key prediction of modern superconductivity theory?

What's the key thing?

And Steve kind of just ruined that because he basically said, it's Cooper pears, right?

And you're right, Steve.

That's the critical thing right there.

That's what I would guess.

That's much less well-known.

Well, you should have just set me up with that dancing part.

I know.

I know, you bastard.

Yeah.

So this is called – this is BCS theory named after the physicist who developed it in the 50s, physicist John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schreifer.

They won the Nobel Prize, as you might imagine.

And yes, it's this idea of Cooper pairs, of electrons kind of getting together and traveling together and that being a critical component to what allows superconductivity to happen, electricity flowing without any resistance through electrons.

wires, whatever it's moving through.

But this theory, this BCS theory, it's only an approximate framework.

I wasn't really aware of how approximate it really is.

It can't describe all the aspects of superconductivity or even all the different types of superconductivity.