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What Is A Superconductor?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Hokey Pokey Effect

electrons by themselves are fermions, things that don't like to share states. But together they're bosons, then they act differently and can slide through the lattice with basically zero resistance. It's kind of like individually, there is this whole massive atoms blocking their way, but once they pair up, it's almost like the loss of physics.

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