Description:Leon Cooper: Creating Emotions from Atoms
The Graduate Center, CUNY - Prohansky Auditorium
Superconductivity and Other Insoluble Problems: Are There Limits to Scientific Understanding?
A talk by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon N. Cooper
When an ordinary metal is cooled to very low temperatures -- near absolute zero -- its electrical resistance vanishes. Once a current starts to flow in a loop of such "superconducting" wire, it flows forever. Discovered in 1911, this remarkable phenomenon de(4:07)