© Jeffrey J Wolynski, Charles Chandler
Well, after reading a short book on it, albeit with a copyright date of 1989, "The Path of No Resistance: The Story of the Revolution in Superconductivity", by Bruce Schechter, I can honestly say the summary of why superconductivity is not understood is because of this reasoning alone:
Page 126:
"The reason, in part, was that superconductivity is what is known as a collective phenomenon, a phenomenon that results from the cooperative action of many atoms. A single atom of tin cannot be superconducting; a lump of tin can be. Examples of collective phenomena abound both in and out of physics: the stock market; a traffic jam; the melting of an ice cream cone. The theoretical apparatus devised by physicists in the first half of this century was good at handling the behavior of, say, a single electron as it raced through a metal, but was overwhelmed by effects that involved the cooperative action of a large number of electrons or atoms, the kind of cooperation that leads to superconductivity."
What leads me to consider that matter itself is just vacuum is on page 127, and is leading me down a different path:
"According to a famous theorem in quantum mechanics, electrons in a perfect crystal lattice move as if they were in a vacuum; the lattice of fixed ions does not impede or affect their motion. Only imperfections in the perfect regularity of the lattice can impede the electrons..."
It is clear as day to me. Nature is collective phenomenon, mathematics/quantum mechanics is singular/isolatory. This leads me to the realization that understanding nature can only be done on the collective, not via isolation/math. Is that not the motto of all mathematics? Find the variable? Isolate the variable? Well, when you try to isolate the "variable" you subtract the very essence of understanding nature itself, nature is not an isolated phenomenon. Solving mysteries with math never happened, its always been the human mind making connections.
In other words, if you want to make discovery of yourself, look at nature as a series of connected phenomenon. Do not look at natural things as being disconnected. Combine seemingly dislike ideas and find that they ARE truly connected!
gravitation:superconductivity (no theory quite exists yet)
planets:stars (the theory of stellar metamorphosis)
wind:electrons (I think Charles has a theory for this)
Instead of looking at things like establishment dogma teaches and constantly banging your face on the wall with trying to connect quantum mechanics with relativity, look at nature. As well, look at the clues: A single atom of tin cannot be superconducting but a lump of tin can... I wonder why that is... Maybe there is no such thing as "atom" and that elements as they are understood are also collective... that would be disasterous to establishment dogma! The reader would surely get ridiculed and banned into oblivion for speaking such blasphemy on mainstream science forums!
JJW: superconductivity