{"id":110395,"date":"2020-07-24T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/cornell-scientists-say-strange-metals-are-similar-to-black-holes"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:04:12","slug":"cornell-scientists-say-strange-metals-are-similar-to-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/cornell-scientists-say-strange-metals-are-similar-to-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Scientists Say \u201cStrange Metals\u201d Are Similar to Black Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cornell-scientists-say-strange-metals-are-similar-to-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Extreme Conditions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A metal\u2019s electrical resistance, or how much it impedes the flow of electricity, is determined by a number of factors. But, according to the new research, if a superconducting metal \u2014 one that doesn\u2019t impede electrical currents at all \u2014 is heated past the temperature at which it can still superconduct, it becomes a strange metal. At that point, its resistance is determined only by temperature and two fundamental constants \u2014 the same three factors that determine many qualities of a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we call them strange metals should tell you how well we understand them,\u201d Olivier Parcollet from the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Quantum Physics <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-quantum-physicists-mystery-strange-metals.html\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cStrange metals share remarkable properties with black holes, opening exciting new directions for theoretical physics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Conditions A metal\u2019s electrical resistance, or how much it impedes the flow of electricity, is determined by a number of factors. But, according to the new research, if a superconducting metal \u2014 one that doesn\u2019t impede electrical currents at all \u2014 is heated past the temperature at which it can still superconduct, it becomes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}