Show I I j r Vanishing Resistance BY Bi EDGAR LUCIEN LUCIE LARKIN HE man of a master mind Michael Michaell T THE l Faraday ara a more than seventy years ears ago looked forward to a great day and trembled This event event- fill l i da day clay is the da day when man should experience one of the most remarkable entities In Nature the Nature the absolute zero cro of temperature the total absence of heat an appalling state of matter 23 degrees C. C c. c or 61 1 F. F below ordinary zero zoro And were tere Faraday arnda now he Ito would stand In a awe awo wo ver very Nature he lie so o fervent fervently loved lo FInie Fi Finite FI- FI nite nie man man no no ma-no no let me here her sa say once and for all an Infinite man man has has now noW actually reached this sought long wonderful point tate slate ate or condition o of matter to within one and a half hal degrees degree C Wonders never ne er cease Entre Entirely new conceptions of matter mater and electricity may now be formulated From a number num num- bet bee o of methods of research It becomes dal dally daily more and more apparent that nothing exists save pave two mL magnificent entitles mind entities mind and electrons rh When n aUthe all aU the matter mater now noi- In III the tho sidereal universe uni uni- verse verae existed as u electrons a state where no 10 matter mater then existed ted the ab absolute absolute ab- ab I. I sol solute te tc temperature pera ure reigned In supreme m I and allo re regal a majesty But Hut from crom recent researches It appears that when absolute absolute absolute lute cold hold hele s a sway electricity encountered encountered no resistance at at least In pure metals metal The most vivid Imagination cannot connot think of ot a universe In which the tue titanic force torce electricity Is 15 unable to appear as ns heat and light for it cannot until It Is resl Then el cl electricity In inIs Its Is natural state Is always without temperature Carbon and amenta ament In all al incandescent l light ht bulbs offer otter resistance to the flow of electricity elec elec- and become so cr very hot that the they emit emi bright light Liquid helium Is ii colder than solid hydrogen cn Chemically Chem Chena- leal pure gold gol wire was placed to this Iri frigid ld liquid helium a helium a gas made Into a dense liquid b by subtraction Ja of its temperature Re Resistance offered b by gold old disappeared ala all the electricity passed through the wire Liquid quicksilver quick Quick- silver silver mercury mercury siver-mercury mercury at nt its Is normal density of or our ordinary zero or 0 degrees C C. or F. F employed F. employed In the experiments offered a resistance to n a current o 0 of electricity o of 1727 1127 ohms ohm Then the mercury mercur was frozen to a rigid solid old when hen r resistance dropped to 39 ohms ohm Then the temperature of ot the mercury mercur was lowered to within three forty degrees degrees de de- de- de grees beeS of the tile ab absolute lute and the r resistance resistance resist resist- ance went down to ohm Would that Faraday had never dl that that died d that he lie might have seen what followed The temperature was lowered to three de degrees de- de Ire grees and then ven e-ven down to within one and a half hat de degrees rees of ot that most wonderful point point absolute cold The hc re- re Istance ran to what la is practically zero or nothing nothing on only i of or on one ohm This resistance of ot matter mater Is what wo I cull call a a. a to flow or current but electricity Is b granular i. I. I. I e. e consists of electrons or separate particles Then since nothing exists but these electrons electron the I I gold and mercury ar are themselves at atthe It t the base lase For electrons form atoms corpuscles cles molecules of ot elements ole eTc ments and the thep e unite unie Into compounds and antI these build structural matter the matter thE mater the stellar stelar universe ere and nil al it Includes cs All 1 matter mater known to chemists con coat electricity One On ma may sa say of ot coi couz cou If nothing exists but electrons electron electron they can be and a vast st majority i a ain in n a state stahl of neutralization under familiar but totally total unknown positive o and e. negative Then t thuman t thuman human senses are unable to detect presence of this thin formidable force torce B Bi hero here the tho Impressive e word comes In Ira Nascent electrons at on one become s sensible and they can can Instant Install destroy our lives and tear apart all all' U Uthe the these e combinations named the named th 1 e I meats ments o or more properly phases phase 1 matter mater Therefore science cannot no O express an opinion of the state of or matter mater before suns sune and ad worn worl began to form fon For If S matter mater one ones ones' one of toner ha has been unable to present then position to electric flows forms orm of force fore energy activity wor or heat l ht would be unknown n Jo O o normal human In this utterly st sean and unique environment Thus Thui d dby at by ia day hour after hour all al Nature Nature- I becoming more and more Inquiring researchers e i t |