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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Geft the stars and stripes saturday March 7,1987 professor Alex Zettle University of California at Berkeley demonstrates per conductor material by dipping i into thermos of liquid nitrogen Nobel prize Winner offers new superconductor theory Washington a a Nobel prize winning physicist is proposing a radically different theory that he says explains the Workings of the new material Iha thave revolutionized research into superconductivity of electricity. Or. Philip Wanderson of Princeton University said researchers have developed new superconducting materials that transport electrical current with no resistance without knowing exactly How they work i m proposing a fairly Radical new mechanism for the same old superconductivity Anderson said thursday. It s a matter of the theory catching up with the compounds made in the  paper outlining the theory was being published in Friday s Issue of the journal  is a phenomenon by which electricity goes through a material with great efficiency and no Energy tosses from resistance. The condition occurs when materials Are cooled to very Low tempera Tures and molecular motion slows Down. If the process can be controlled and the right Materi als developed superconductivity offers the Promise of cheaper electrical Power faster and More efficient electronics and powerful magnets that can be used for everything from levitating High Speed trains to devel Oping new generations of atom smashers. Many traditional materials trome superconducting when kept close to absolute Zero or -459,7 degrees fahrenheit the temperature at which the Normal motion of molecules ceases. Scientists for decades have experimented with new materials and techniques in attempts to raise the temperature where superconductivity occurs so Iha cheaper and Easi Emo handle coolants could be used for practical applications. Last month Paul . Chu at the University of Houston and . We at the University of Alabama said they had achieved  -283 de Grees f using a new Metal oxide material. This is above the Long sought temperature where using cheaper Cool ants is practical. And researchers at the University of California a Berkeley said this week they independently had achieved a breakthrough using a material similar i not identical to that formulated by Chu. Anderson a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1977, specializes in magnetism super conductivity and the physics of solids. The scientist said the new materials or related ones compounds of exotic elements such As Lanthanum or yttrium mixed with Copper oxygen and barium should work by even higher temperatures if his new theory is Correct. Atoms in a Metal normally Are locked in an array called a lattice. Metals thai conduct electricity give up atomic particles called electrons to move about the lattice or flow off in a current if a voltage is applied. According to the traditional explanation for super conductivity Cooling slows Down the natural vibrations of he lattice that cause irregularities that con tribute to resistance. The free electrons then pair up and flow off More easily in this stale under his theory Anderson said electrons actually repel one another instead of being attracted together. Electrons come together not because of attraction but because they arc pushed together by other electrons he said. Restless wife smuggled aliens san Antonio Texas up a restless housewife who was looking Tor excitement was sentenced to five years in prison for transporting undocumented aliens into the United states . District judge William s. Sessions also fined det Fina Garcia of Universal City $2,500 and scheduled her for five years probation after her release from  lawyer William recce said Garcia got rest less following 30 years of marriage As a  Federal indictment alleged that Garcia who pleaded guilty last month to a charge of transporting an undocumented alien into the country masterminded an operation that smuggled hundreds of Central americans into the United  sentenced Garcia s husband Joe Garcia so an air Force lieutenant colonel who retired Sun Day 10 five years probation and a s3,000 Fine or Dering him to perform ,000 hours of Community serv ice for his role in the operation. Their son Joseph Roland Garcia 28, was sentence to five years probation a 12,500 Fine and ordered to perform 300 hours of Community service. Stateside new York pay phones to just make outgoing Calls new York  
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