Superconductivity at Room Temperature

Abstract

Several years ago an experiment was performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that demonstrated the possibility of constructing a perpetual-motion machine. An electric current was induced to flow around a small ring of metal. The ring was then set aside. A year later the current was found to be still circulating in the material of the ring; what is more, it had not diminished by a measurable amount during this period! Although physicists object instinctively to the idea of perpetual motion and refer to such currents euphemistically as “persistent currents,” they are obviously extremely persistent currents.

It has not yet been achieved, but theoretical studies suggest that it is possible to synthesize organic materials that, like certain metals at love temperatures, conduct electricity without resistance