Bardeen (who also developed the transistor), Cooper, and Schrieffer developed the BCS theory that defines superconductivity. In simple terms, a pair of electrons are attracted due to a crystal vibration called a phonon (not photon). In materials cold enough (so that the crystal vibration is diminished), these electron pairs literally bounce from molecules much like a skier on moguls. Normally a moving charge creates a magnetic field. But the Cooper pair drives the magnetic field out - called the Meissner effect. The need to drive out this magnetic field is why the superconductivity fails if the current is too great - causing a magnetic field. Since the Londons defined an equation, this is sometimes called the London effect.
Because the electrons travel from atom to atom as smoothly as that mogul skier, then the conductor is said to have zero resistance - is a lossless conductor. Furthermore, electrons don't move at the speed of light. Anything that moves at light speed has no mass. Electrons have mass. But it is not so much the moving of electronics that creates speed of light waves. Electrons moving a little bit, like a wave in the ocean, combine to create a wave that moves faster than the particles. The wave can move at light speeds even though the electron moves little distance.
Electrons create an electric field. Electrons that are moving create a magnetic field. Both conditions and therefore both fields are necessary to create electricity and electromagnetic waves (light, radio, x-rays, heat, etc). These fields are well understood and were defined by Maxwell's equations.
Einstein wanted to combine gravity and other forces into a unified theory. But gravity remained elusive.
Now where I don't quite understand what was posted. An electromagnetic field involves two fundamental forces of nature that must occur simultaneously AND in a matched ratio (called impedance). So how does gravity fit into these relationships? I don't understand what is being claimed in the theory behind this experiment. If superconductivity creates gravity, then is gravity a third force involved with electromagnetic fields?
Meanwhile, photons have no mass. Therefore photons move at light speed. If photons are slowed, then photons have mass. How does this contradiction get resolved?
OK, let's assume that a cousin to the electron is a graviton. Does a graviton create a gravity field? And then a moving graviton creates what that is synonymous with a magnetic field? Or does a moving graviton also create a magnetic field? I am trying to understand the relation ship between superconductivity - electricity - with gravity. But I don't understand what the articles are trying to claim.
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