Jay Novella

And that's the key breakthrough right there.

So this is where, of course, where the ballroom dancing metaphor crops up.

That's why I'm seeing it everywhere I look.

Because when you're ballroom dancing, you pair up with somebody, and as you're dancing, there's a part of your brain that's making sure that you don't hit other dancers, right?

Even though you may be doing complicated moves, you always make sure that you're not going to hit anybody else.

So that's kind of what these Cooper pairs are doing.

Tariq Yefsa, who's the experimental research lead at the French National Center for Scientific Research, said, the BCS theory gives us a view from outside the ballroom, right?

So he means here is that the old theory, the way we understand it right now before this experiment, it gives us a view from outside the ballroom where we can hear the music and see the dance come out, but we don't know what's going on inside in the ballroom.

Our approach is like taking a wide-angle camera inside the ballroom.

Now we can see how the dancers are pairing up and paying attention to one another so they don't bump into each other.

So that's his metaphorical description of the advance.

So the takeaway here is that this was not predicted by the 70-year-old theory.

This is a new insight into what's happening with superconductivity that we did not have before.

And it's advances like this, having a better, more fundamental understanding of superconductivity itself at its lowest level that can lead to whole new industries, essentially.

And that's what gets me really excited about this.

And that leads me to like, what's the future hold for this?

And one of the big takeaways, one of the biggest takeaways from this is that it could lead to…

the solution to one of the one of the holy grails of modern physics and what's that room temperature superconductors if we had that the the impacts to to our lives and to to industries are it would it's kind of hard to predict and just how dramatic it would be i mean we're talking about ultra efficient electric grids electric the changes to electronic devices it would be a game changer um

I tried to come up with a list of some of the things that you would notice, some of the big, big changes.

Like imagine if all the power grids had almost no transmission losses.