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From: obnoxio@BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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Subject: Comment on Superconductivity
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Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 00:21:17 EDT
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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