“Will we ever discover -temp superconductors?”– Very hard to know. It, like col

–“Will we ever discover -temp superconductors?”–

Very hard to know. It, like cold fusion, unlikely. However, the discovery of graphene, despite knowing about carbon fiber for a century, was an example of how we can’t put too much confidence in presumptions of the potential properties of materials.

Many complex molecules in the physical world, like complex molecules (proteins) in the biological world, can produce emergent properties that we are unaware of. Likewise many complex alloys produce emergent properties. But everything I’ve seen during my lifetime is consistently discouraging. 😉

However, we are limited by our knowledge of our environment that is the product of our third generation star. While it appears that producing new elements is quite difficult it is not clear that different stars, different planets, with much higher mass and temperature, either during it’s ordinary life cycle, or during it’s collapse will not produce heavier elements with as yet odd properties, such as vastly higher energy storage and dissipation.

So we can’t be sure. IMO it is very unlikely that we will produce superconductors without temperature or pressure constraints, and that in general light statisfies most if not all of the benefits that we seek from exotic materials. (which is where computing is going if I am correct.)

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