Superconductors

One of the strangest occurrences we've ever found is superconductivity. Even when materials are cooled to extremely low temperatures, they nevertheless retain some degree of electrical resistance. This implies that some energy is lost as heat by all of our electrical equipment, and there is little we can do to prevent this.

Superconductivity, which refers to materials that completely lose their electrical resistance when chilled below extremely low temperatures, was discovered for the first time more than a century ago by a scientist by the name of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Since then, numerous novel superconductors with a wide range of uses in numerous industries have been found.

However, because it's a phenomenon that researchers are still striving to understand, its use is still somewhat restricted. When subjected to various circumstances, superconducting materials reveal characteristics that have never been seen before. The current best guess is that superconductivity has something to do with quantum mechanics because it is not described by the physics and chemical models that we currently have.