MIT Might Have Just Discovered the Most Valuable Material in Your Pencil

You're not going to believe what they just did at MIT. Because you might have heard that superconductivity is the answer to the energy crisis, to compute bottlenecks, resource limitations, and that it would revolutionize healthcare. But if you were lucky enough to study it in school, they would have told you that magnetic fields destroy superconductivity. But the solution that disproves that statement was hiding in the pencil you used to take those notes. I'm GigaChan and I make short videos that bring you up to speed with the experts. So let's keep to schedule. A superconductor is a material that can carry electricity with zero resistance. No energy at all lost to heat. It's like a frictionless autobahn for electrons. But if you expose a conventional superconductor to a magnetic field, the field causes the electrons' spins to flip. Pairs break apart. No more superconductor. That threshold is called the Pauli limit, named after Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Push past it, and you're done. That was until MIT found an instance that proves the opposite. The magnetism turned it on. It's crazy, I know, but like I said, rhombohedral graphene is the stuff in your pencil. And if you think it's more complicated than that, you have to find a certain layer within the pencil lead. Yeah, you do. And they did so using Scotch tape. Inspiring, isn't it? The superconducting state survived parallel magnetic fields up to 9 Tesla. Yes, 9 Tesla is about 180,000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field. Suffice to say, it's way past the Pauli limit. And they do have to keep it cold, but the critical temperature, which is the point below which it becomes superconducting, is still very high. So, what does this mean? Well, it means that we can now create superconductors that are much more powerful and efficient than anything we've ever seen before. This could lead to a revolution in energy, transportation, and medicine. It's a game-changer.