Oz quantum researcher to head new journal

Re. scientific censorship

I agree on some of this (no longer AC, found it not to be helpful) and have experienced this first hand with my own discoveries.

Included in this are: anomalous alpha transparency in pyrolytic graphite which does *not* correspond to normal levels and is sensitive to angle of graphite related to americium source.

Sent this to a number of journals and was told "too esoteric" ...

As I don't have any cash to spare spending £££ just to get scientific credentials is ludicrous, so my discoveries end up on Hackaday etc.

Also worth mentioning, many of my ideas not only work but if the condensed matter ones actually work on an industrial scale it could replace copper as a conductor.

The effect discovered originally by Profs. Prins and Pablo suggests not only that the condensed matter community has a serious denial problem but electron-hole (ie Type 3 or bipolaron) superconductivity occurs in pyrographite doped with small (700:1) amounts of lead with a critical temperature near 281K when immersed in an organic solvent such as MEK as well as even higher temperatures in the cuprates and also in some types of diamond in a vacuum.

I've tested this and it literally works off the shelf so to speak, 15% resistance drop within seconds and when under solvent the graphite stops levitating (!) suggesting that the structure is being affected thus changing the surface properties allowing SC to occur.

Exact solvents tried and found to work: Liquid Poly, MEK/acetone mix sold as pipe jointer.

This can't be experimental error but it seems that the effect is linked to the interconnect alloy used (BiSnPb) as without it nothing happens.

Also worth mentioning, had the same effect when just meter probes were used but they were contaminated with Pb and when fresh copper and fresh PG were used nothing happened.

My thoughts are that perhaps there is a national security issue here, as references exist to bumps in the temperature graph on some complex oxides as early as 1982 well above room temperature.

It seems ludicrous that this would be suppressed but given how many other discoveries took decades to become mainstream (ie Losev and his SiC LEDs) maybe it is a case of denial.