Unlocking the potential of superconductors - with Felix Flicker

That 3 piece suit and tie are straight out of 1842 London.

Wonderful presentation wizard Felix! Bravo! 👏😍

I thought of rinsewind of the Discworld...

I love this guy. He makes me want to stick a knife in my head. Thank you!

He lost me at "soup conductor"!

I always feel that the word magic is used to hide ignorance. If you are using magic as a metaphor for physics and in this discussion a way of describing the interaction effects of different states of matter, then I can see the relevance but I still feel the word and it's connotation hurt more with many people than help in the understanding of why things work the way that they do.

really cool and none of the clickbait hype! contrary to the recent NIF (National Ignition Facility) hype about their fusion "achievements".
I really question the true motivation of their publicity stint. Is it because their funding is in danger in 2023 ... economy is going down, energy prices shooting up, the costs of power supply for their huge lasers are getting more expensive, and voila the NIF is in trouble getting funding? NIF experiments won't lead to fusion electricity, not in 60 years! (that technology (assessment) is misleading and too difficult; one day it may enable fusion-rockets; but no way to produce cheap, environmentally friendly electricity) Other approaches, more likely, will do the trick.
What amazes me is the prospect of long-range, super-conducting power cables becomming reality soon! That would be a game-changer.
I think there is a short superconducting line in Chicago, too?

Move over prof Cox, a new more erudite kid is on the block, well done

This Mathemagical Holographic Principle Imagery, e-Pi-i sync-duration i-reflection Spinfoam bubble-mode orbital-orbits in crystalline Function->Form.

Perhaps he is deserving of a round of applause.

Why does he just talk to people on his left and completely ignore everone on his right? And why talk about wizards when the audience are adults? Awful.

Superb

I am not impressed by this lecture. Some of his statements while not wrong, are misleading. 😟🙁☹😮

ABSOLUTE.

I had not know about it before now

came here from the interview on radio 4 today - fascinating - thank you!

Right side of audiences must be feeling very ignored during this whole lecture. 😂😂 [DiowE]

Easily my new favorite science presenter! This and the talk on magnetic monopoles are both asbolutely wonderful!

Im a rockhound, I love and study geology, and physics ( on my own not in college ). I seriously want one of those half mirrored ping pong ball boxes. Lol I absolutely love that!

You won me over with the finger running up and down the tube !

Brilliantly explained sir.

Magic and science don't go together

I'm getting sick of seeing the clown's outfit pop up in the vignettes. I watched him once and give is down vote. Why are you pushing him ?

Nice!

About magic: it's not about physics that's astonishing. Physics is all about bottom-up causation. Everything, presumably, is bottom-up causation, including our thoughts and whatnot. Magic is top-down causation, i.e. god or 'the simulator' changing or effecting something without it being caused by the system. If uttering a spell can have top-down causal power, yes it's magic. No, electrically stimulated crystals are not magic. Astonishing, yes, but that's a different word isn't it?

Check out the concept of vacuum birefringence. If there happens to be a magnetic field on the order of 10 ^ 24 Tesla say from a magnetar birefringence occurs as a result in regards to polarized light.

The fuzzy balls was way more distracting than the magic 🤣

Creation is beautiful and amazing. It's cool that we can work with it so intrinsically, but it's unfortunate that so many people, in so many ways, try to abuse science by mixing it with grandiose conclusions about things like God or superficial TOEs.
I like listening to these kinds of talks because it stays realistic and playful

I don't think a 100w Incandescent bulb = a 2w LED. Possibly a 6-8w LED.

This guy is so utterly cool. He's what Americans picture when they imagine a British Professor (sans being old). Or an incarnation of the Doctor. Which I think he may, in fact, be.

Materials technology is the future. Allowing us to leverage quantum effects.

Neutron decay cosmology
Still inevitable 🙂

a second thought about long range superconducting power lines: 1.) would this be more susceptible to to detrimental induction by a Carrington_event_size solar flare? 2.) could it have a disrupting back EMF on Earth's magnetic dynamo ( if it is a DC line )? The Earth_dynamo may already be in a spinning down mode and going to reverse polarity?

Snape?

great lecture! easily understandable analogies :)

You would be more credible if you weren't Cosplaying as Dr. Who

Brilliant visualization with the Infinity Cube...

there is a much intuitive example of quasiparticles: think of the manipulation of an air bubble on water as it travels to the surface, you could see the air bubble as a "lack of water" particle and find an equivalent description of its physics behavior

Wonderful lecture! Bravo!

would have liked him as my cat drinking condensed felix physics milk

Count Olaf ?

Might dark matter and dark energy be the medium for photons?

Newton said light was in small parcels

Is this a clown, this clothes?

CoMPiler

Suggestion: record the screen with presentation/camera and display that footage when presenting the relevant portion instead of the wide camera angle

wow.

STOP with the constant "round of applause please" for absolutely no substantial reason! Utterly RIDICULOUS!

Pretty lightweight lecture ... I got fed up with him dumbing everything down to elementary school level, and bailed.

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Why does he look and dress exactly like cedric villani???