We have some scientific sources on this [] :What sort of current can we push through these before they vaporize and poison us all? I seem to remember mercury tilt switches exploded if you attempted to switch too much. Actually, I have one someplace, I've had since I was a kid. I should dig it out.
Thermal conductivity | 8.30 W/(m⋅K) |
Electrical resistivity | 961 nΩ⋅m (at 25 °C) |
Magnetic ordering | diamagnetic |
Molar magnetic susceptibility | −33.44×10−6 cm3/mol (293 K) |
I would greatly appreciate your advice, John. This is the only weak point of the concept. Maybe mercury filled copper tubes in the power amp with mercury-to-copper direct electron transition?
You guys are just way to much fun to listen to waxing poetic about Feynman like escapades as kids. The only common thread that I share with that... is the amazement of surviving the time to tell tales now. Seize the day... all you mini mad scientists wanna be... who grew up to be... actual Mad Scientists. Definitely worth the price of admission to this worm hole.IIRC, it was Nitro-methane.
Somewhere, deep in my storeroom are a whole shoebox full of Cox Baby Bee 0.049 engines. My best OS/Max 7.5cc marine engine went to the bottom of the river in a mishap I don't want to talk about...
You guys are blowing my mind.Liquid metal for cables? So soon we have the T-1000?
I fixed it for you!who grew up to be... actual Angry Scientists.
I'd contend that the actual logical results of growing up is a certain amount of anger... whether as an angry scientist, musician, or ...phool. Good thing that we have our hobby to both exercise and exorcise that anger... lol.I fixed it for you!
Mercury is the best candidate, and mercury filled multi-piped foam cables are the solution. Please see the cross-section drawing below. Patent pending!
Wow, that's something new to me.*checks calendar* - No, not April.
In any case, hasn't liquid metal already been done?
https://www.materialstoday.com/metals-alloys/podcasts/liquid-metal-wires/
Of course!!!I am curious if anyone has considered this thread serious .
I think if you aren't using silver plated copper pipe with liquid helium pumped through them to create superconductors, all sonic detail will be hopelessly lost. (joke)As We audiophiles know, the most important component of the audio chain that affect the resulting sound are CABLES. Take or leave, this is a naked truth. And, any good audiophile knows that the biggest enemy of the clear, fluent sound are crystal boundaries that create microdiodes in the cable structure.
Let's remind some great articles on this topic:
Copper's sound
Yesterday's post on wire gauge sparked a few questions that needed to be asked. The constant pulling of wire through tiny openings, 10, 12, perhaps 20 times to get the wire size you need must have some effect on the wire itself. And the question comes quickly. What impact does all this copper...www.psaudio.com
Audio, Cable, Exotic Materials, and You
In the last installment of this continuing series about the materials that our High End audio toys and goodies are made of, I wrote about ultra-pure copper. That's the stuff that (as everybody k...audiophilereview.com
I have invented a cure for this audiophile pain - let's make a speaker wire from the liquid metal!! Mercury is the best candidate, and mercury filled multi-piped foam cables are the solution. Please see the cross-section drawing below. Patent pending!
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