Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU!obnoxio From: obnoxio@BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Comment on Superconductivity Message-ID: <8707210421.AA16893@brahms.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 00:21:17 EDT Article-I.D.: brahms.8707210421.AA16893 Posted: Tue Jul 21 00:21:17 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 05:11:11 EDT References: <2385@ames.arpa> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: obnoxio@brahms.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 18 In article <2385@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >This is why our science can predict the new discoveries of >superconductivity right? Theorists had made speculations about high Tc superconductors long before they were discovered. But since theory people have such limited imagina- tions, they need giant hints from nature in order to identify the correct zeroth order approximation that will kick start their calculations. (I seem to recall reading a survey article on this--meaning conjectures about high Tc, of course--a few years ago in "Physics Today".) > (sorry, I didn't want to sound too sarcastic, >since we don't have a theory.) Well, I *did* want to sound sarcastic. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720