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sciencealert.com/physicists-have-found-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1
>Researchers have identified a metal that conducts electricity without conducting heat - an incredibly useful property that defies our current understanding of how conductors work.
what does this mean for processors? can we make processors that don't produce heat?

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no.

but the metal doesn't produce heat. if it doesn't produce heat, couldn't we pump as much voltage as we can through it since it won't melt and burn the house down? since... it doesn't get hot?

Who is this luscious succubus?

This doesn't sound good for circuits

Processors are made from more materials than just metal, user

why not?

Are you retarded? Go back tot high school or read the fucking article again

>implying they're made out of metal at all

the retardation in this thread has reached escape velocity.

> a metal that conducts electricity without conducting heat
if it doesn't conduct heat, then how can it produce heat? it can't pick up heat. so if you pump voltage through it it won't produce any heat.

>what does this mean for processors?
It could mean that wire interconnects are a lot more efficient, but that depends on a host of other factors.

> can we make processors that don't produce heat?
No, the majority of the heat produced per transistor is from the force of the electrical field controlling flow of current through the channel. Its not just emanating out of the wires routing current from the back end.

The use of a high current low temp device has a lot of applications, but not necessarily semiconductors.
It might make high voltage transmission lines more efficient. Maybe one day we'd even need less power substations. Thats a pretty big maybe though.
The Spectrum.IEEE article is a lot better.

i would like to know too

Complete and utter bullshit, heat in electronics is proportional to the RESISTANCE of the material, not the heat conductance,

Electronics need materials that conduct heat faster as they can cool faster and stay at lower temperatures,

Room temperature superconductors are what you would want for amazing technology however they cannot exist (physics)

can't we make the transistors from the metal?

Please be bait

You think processors don't contain metal?
What do you think they are?
Solid silicon?

>what does this mean for processors?
Nothing because it isn't a semiconductor

wHERE do the heat go law of thermodynamics

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>using semiconductors when you could be using just conductors with non-conductors drawn in for total insulation

i thought processors were semiconductors?

They are, which is why this non-semiconductor metal is useless to processors

You can make a transistor from a ton of things, though thats like saying you could make a bridge from anything. Kids making bridges out of sugar cubes doesn't mean we should tear down the Golden Gate and replace it with saccharine squares.

More materials go into a microchip than people realize. A chip with 11 different metal layers could have a couple dozen different materials, and different isotopes of a given material in a particular application. This one material may be a suitable replacement for one of them, but thats still one material out of many being used. Its a bit erroneous to say chips are made from silicon. They're made from a silicon starting wafer and at the end there isn't a ton of silicon left.

A lot of people do seem to think that.

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why wouldn't this metal be good at semiconductors? wouldn't it be ideal since it doesn't conduct heat? would it not be better than copper?

You're beyond help. Please stop posting kiddo

That would mean there is zero resistance

Sort of, but not really. The material doesn't carry a current with zero thermal transfer, its just really low.
Its essentially passing electrons in single file lines instead of allowing them to bounce all around and created friction.
Though thats way less interesting than a giant clickbait title.

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but wouldn't that make it ideal for processors? low resistance? lower heat? i don't see how this is worthless for processors.

Where are you getting all of these amazing asses?

>can we make processors that don't produce heat?
don't be stupid
processors are made of semiconductors

See my prior post:

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Voltage doesn't flow through a conductor, dipshit.

It's physically impossible for something to not conduct heat

well they just found a metal that doesn't.

The metal does produce heat if electricity floats through it. It just doesn't conduct heat from one end of it to another. This is actually terrible for cooling, heatsinks are built for the sole purpose of conducting heat away from the processor.

It does conduct heat. Just not well.

then what's the benefit to this for electronics then? article didn't talk much since about electronics.

No significant benefit as far as I can imagine. Maybe it would be good for certain sensor applications to make it less susceptible to heat from the environment or something.

more accurate sensors would be nice. what about the electrical grid? would this metal be useful to transmit electricity over the wires?

No.

then wtf would this metal be good for then? cause right now i'm hearing a lot of nothing except the few applications they quoted in the article.

no you dumb shit

they would critically fail

because they're not superconductors, they have electrical resistance

resistance = heat
heat = more resistance

instead of like copper, where heat spreads relatively rapidly, the cables get heated evenly and can sink the heat into the surrounding areas

this magical material cant

wherever there is a material fault in the cable, it will heat up locally, creating a resistance cascade until it either reaches an equilibrium (voltage too low) or it burns.

now go to bed.

>hurr durr scientists discovered a new rock will this be in the new iphone 8

literally you right now.

I don't get why you think it has to have an application. It is a kind of cool discovery since it contradicts earlier knowledge, but beyond that it's not particularly useful. It's nothing revolutionary. If it has some useful application it will probably only be discovered in the future.

because what's the point of even acknowledging a new martial if its worthless?
well if it can make cell phones not explode and take down blames that be noteworthy.

actually could this be used in batteries?

would it be useful for a new type of insulation? like for houses? boats? blames?

WHO IS THIS

You are fucking stupid.

>because what's the point of even acknowledging a new martial if its worthless?
Because it contradicts earlier knowledge which might lead to better understanding of physics

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stupid on what? since this conducts very low heat could it be used to craft new spacecraft?

You literally have schizophrenia, stop reading into pseudoscience and get help

how is it useful? what do we gain out of it?

No, the spacecraft wouldn't conduct heat away and it would vapourise, leading to loss of cabin pressure and burn-up in atmosphere

Shitposter get out.

Your critical thinking skills are pathetic

It doesn't follow the laws of physics so it may help people understand new more correct laws of physics

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wonder what else we've gotten wrong about physics.

By the way, can you stop posting bikini pictures, this is a blue board.

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>this thread

Its 2017 get with the times meatbag

bbc.com/news/world-asia-38337758

Very little since we're able to manipulate it to a very high degree, e.g all the technology that surrounds you including whatever device your using, for all practical and most theoretical purposes, physics/science = truth

That's not even me you faglord.

says the faglord posting anime
>pro tip
you will never be Japanese just like you will never be a pretty girl wearing cute dresses.

A device that is traditionally limited by the described properties is a Peltier cell. It may be possible to make a more efficient cell using this material.

2D is clearly superior, but I`ll fap to anything really.

>2D superior
maybe if your mentally deranged

Perhaps...

I`m here after all.

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buy me a pass and i will. not wasting the time of having to spam captchas for my entire collection which is pretty big.

Then please put it in a zip and post it on something?
I beg you user, those are some of the best asses I've ever seen

so where does the heat go?

pls upload them to mega or something then.

i'll think about it. its a very large collection.
probably to this butt

As far as we know. Nothing is for certain, it's just that so far everything else has abided by this so it's a law of physics. At any time something could be discovered that completely destroys our current perspective of physics. It doesn't mean it's impossible, it simply means we were wrong.

Outward, as with anything else.
The nuance here is that running current through this material isn't producing appreciable amounts of heat, because the electrons are basically traveling in orderly single file lines. They're not bouncing all over and wantonly producing friction which heats the medium.

Is this that Fake News I've been reading so much about?
Can I get a fact check on this somewhere?

are wormholes something that's actually possible with our current knowledge of physics?

>doesn't conduct heat
Doesn't mean it doesn't get hot, so if it gets hot it can't disperse the heat. So nvidia will use it

don't you mean AMD cause AMD is the only housefire around.

no, it'll still produce heat when you run a current through it, the article is talking about how it is not a good heat conductor while being a good electrical conductor, making it unique. it's like the opposite of what you want in a processor.

heat is the energy being lost to the resistance of the metal. it'll make heat when running a current but won't disperse it/radiate it very well

so it would be very hard to cool then? the heat from the circuits would just build up since the metal also acts like an insulator?

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have you? and what type did she get?

i dunno what type of implants they are besides they go in a persons asschecks.

oh. there's lipoinjection, gluteal, and contouring though gluteal is the most popular.

starting to becoming popular among trans since you know, they were born with a mans ass and they want a womens.

So no one has mentioned the connection to the themoelectric effect?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_materials
The efficiency of thermoelectric materials is proportional to the electrical conductivity and inversely proportional to their thermal conductivity...
So for Sup Forums this means you can get better Peltier coolers...

well thats cool. at least we can see some benefit to this in the computer world

Look at her arm in the second picture.
Disgusting

What wrong with her arm?

>can we make processors that don't produce heat?

That would be pretty cool!

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HOL UP

so you be sayin they discovered a superconductor?