seann's Journal: That world called rubber.

I road home from my girlfriends house on a bike without a tube.
earlier we got into a small argument on super conductors, heat and cold, and which goes faster.
I said:

"well my batteries died on the way over to your house, but after they cool down they'll be more responsive and I'll get another half hour out of them."

she concluded that:

"it doesn't make sense,"
"sure it does, just like keeping computers circuits/silicon cold, they use gold and cool it to run really fast"
"metal with higher temperatures conduct far better than cold ones."

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So after we got home, she persisted to aj.com and tried to find the answer. I then went on google and got a document about super conductors (IBM researchers), and she concluded she was right. (said metals operate at better temperaturs at 16K below absolute zero.)

I just went over a book that I recently read a week ago (Great book, read it in a night, just couldn't put it down)

The Science of the X-Men, Link Yaco, p203 "Super-computers, incidentally, use liquid helium, which is more easily compressible, to super-cool their gold-plated circuits. When gold is cooled enough, it becomes a super-conductor, which might be iceman's state to some extent. Keep that in mind as we get some later ideas."

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I guess I'm right to an extent.
well, that's gold.... gold is one of the elements that has sort of strange tendancies I guess....

She has more schooling than me, I trust her, I don't however, trust her at the same time. Wonder who's right?