Friday, September 15th, 2006

 

Prof. Jorge Hirsch, , UCSD

" Do superconductors violate basic laws of physics? "

2:00 pm in room P-148

I will show that superconductors violate at least one basic law of physics: either Lenz's law, or angular momentum conservation, or Newton's second law. For those that have faith in theory I will explain how this conundrum can be resolved with least collateral damage. For those that don't I will discuss a simple experiment that can decide between the different possibilities, that could have been done many years ago but hasn't.