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Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by whatshisface on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:15PM (#36868705)
Believe it or not, the levitation effect can be found in non-superconducting materials with a high diamagnetic constant such as pyrolytic carbon. Induced magnetic fields are created by "effective currents," which can occur in zero-resistance systems that are not called superconductors (because they can't conduct across a significant distance, only around a tiny loop) like molecular or atomic orbitals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolytic_carbon

Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by howmayiannoyyou on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:55PM (#36869366)
Diamagnetism was my first reaction when I saw lead, and the addition of copper makes me think eddy current reactivity.
Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by rozab on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:06AM (#36905671)
...and this is Eddy's sofa, is it?