The key to Lockheed's device, they say, is superconductors.

他们说，洛克希德设备关键在于超导体。

The opposing forces cause the object to float above the superconductor.

相对力会令物体浮在超导体上方。

Near absolute zero, the quantum vortices in ultra-cold, ultra-thin superconductor materials were arranged in pairs.

在接近绝对零度时，超冷超薄超导体材料中量子涡旋会成对排列。

Commonwealth Fusion also uses high-temperature superconductors in its magnets.

Commonwealth Fusion 还在其磁铁中使用高温超导体。

Take quantum vortices, which are basically whirlpools of angular momentum in materials like superconductors and superfluids, giving them strange properties.

以量子涡旋为，本上是超导体和超流体等材料中角动量漩涡，使们具有奇特性质。

That includes products used to make airplanes and superconductors.

这括用于制造飞机和超导体产品。

Everything could change with a new class of high-temperature superconductors.

一切都可能随着新型高温超导体而改变。

But we could engineer a high-temperature superconductor to tame our scorching mini-sun.

但我们可以设计一种高温超导体来驯服我们灼热小太阳。

If we could control superconductors better, we could make batteries that never degrade, better quantum computers, lots of other useful things.

如果我们能更好地控制超导体话，我们可以制造永不降解电池，更好量子计算机，和很多其他有用东西。

Magicians coat an object in a layer of magnetic paint and place it on top of a superconductor cooled by liquid nitrogen.

魔术师给某个物体涂上一层磁性涂料，然后把物体放在用液氮冷却超导体上。

Second, there's the possibility of using the carbon in the atmosphere to generate electricity via graphene-powered superconductors or synthetic photosynthesis.

其次，有可能利用大气中碳通过石墨烯驱动超导体或合成光合作用来发电。

It's hoped such research will help create materials which could be used in new generations of electronics and superconductors, or in quantum computers.

这类研究有望创造能够被用于新一代电器和超导体，或量子计算机中材料。

Because studying shifts from three to two dimensions could help make better superconductors and better superconductors could mean more efficient magnetic trains, lower electricity bills and faster computers.

因为研究从三维向二维转换有助于制造更好超导体，更好超导体意味着更高效磁悬浮列车，更节约电能和更快电脑。

We call these materials superconductors, and trust me when I say that research into these materials is a very important -- and lucrative -- field of study.

我们称这些材料为超导体，相信我说对这些材料研究是一个非常重要且有利可图领域。

All the other superconductors we’ve discovered only work at very low temperatures, but one that works at room temperature would revolutionize the power industry by making it way more efficient to transfer electricity.

我们发所有其他超导体只能在非常低温度下工作，但在室温下工作超导体将通过提高电力传输效率来彻底改变电力行业。

And if we could figure out how to make this stuff, it would be incredibly useful: It’s thought that metallic hydrogen would be a superconductor at room temperature, meaning that it would be perfectly conduct electricity.

如果我们能弄清楚如何制造这种东西，那将非常有用：人们认为金属氢在室温下是超导体， 这意味着可以完美导电。

When you have a type 2 superconductor in a powerful magnetic field. you get this thing called the Meissner effect, which means that you can actually lock on to it and hold it in place and manipulate it.

当你在一个强磁场中放一个 2 型超导体时，你会得到一种叫做迈斯纳效应东西，这意味着你实际上可以锁定并将其固定在适当位置并操纵。

They also haven’t checked if the material is conductive, or even if it’s actually solid — which are pretty important tests if you think you’ve made a solid metallic superconductor.

他们也没有检查材料是否导电，或者即使实际上是固体——如果你认为你已经制造了固体金属超导体， 这些测试是非常重要。