{"id":1873,"date":"2008-03-20T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2008-03-20T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T19:00:51","slug":"room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/20\/room-temperature\/","title":{"rendered":"Room Temperature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Digg, no, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/319\/5869\/1506.abstract\">this article<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/announcements.usask.ca\/news\/archive\/2008\/03\/u_of_s_research_35.html\">press release<\/a> do not mean that <a>Scientists Invent Room Temperature Superconducting Material<\/a>.  It means that scientists have put molecular silane under hundreds of giga-Pascals presures (for comparison, atmospheric pressure is 100 kilo-Pascals) at a temperature of around 20 Kelvin, and gotten it to superconduct.  While this is certainly cool, it is not &#8220;room temperature&#8221; as far as I can tell.<br \/>\nOne day I was driving down the road and listening to AM radio when Paul Harvey came on and did his schtick (&#8220;and now you know, the rest of the story.&#8221;)  At one point in the show, Harvey made a statement that physicists had recently discovered how to get superconductivity at room temperature.  I almost drove off the road hearing this and ran home to see if it was true.  Unfortunately it was not, and I will never, ever, forgive Paul Harvey for making me think this amazing discovery had been made.  And now you know the rest of the&#8230;ah, whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Digg, no, this article and press release do not mean that Scientists Invent Room Temperature Superconducting Material. It means that scientists have put molecular silane under hundreds of giga-Pascals presures (for comparison, atmospheric pressure is 100 kilo-Pascals) at a temperature of around 20 Kelvin, and gotten it to superconduct. While this is certainly cool, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/20\/room-temperature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Room Temperature?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science-by-press-release"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}