Cambridge Team Breaks Superconductor World Record 73
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An anonymous reader writes University of Cambridge scientists have broken a decade-old superconducting record by packing a 17.6 Tesla magnetic field into a golf ball-sized hunk of crystal — equivalent to about three tons of force. From the Cambridge announcement: "A world record that has stood for more than a decade has been broken by a team led by University of Cambridge engineers, harnessing the equivalent of three tonnes of force inside a golf ball-sized sample of material that is normally as brittle as fine china. The Cambridge researchers managed to 'trap' a magnetic field with a strength of 17.6 Tesla — roughly 100 times stronger than the field generated by a typical fridge magnet — in a high temperature gadolinium barium copper oxide (GdBCO) superconductor, beating the previous record by 0.4 Tesla."
Well (Score:5, Funny)
I'm off to buy roughly 101 fridge magnets, and you'll be seeing me in the Beer Book of Bets shortly.
Re:Stronger? (Score:5, Funny)
Stronger magnetic fields could also be used to reinforce antimatter containment, although they might not prevent an impending warp core breach.
Re:Stronger? (Score:3, Funny)
Stronger magnetic fields could also be used to reinforce antimatter containment, although they might not prevent an impending warp core breach.
Of course not. But if you could just reverse the polarity, you'd hopefully deionize the plasma.