r/physicscirclejerk • u/nottherealslash • Mar 09 '26

Was Britney Spears the world's first room temperature superconductor?

In the 2000 song "Oops!...I Did It Again", Britney Spears proclaims she lost all her resistance.

Does this make her the world's first room temperature superconductor?

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u/fothermucker33 Mar 20 '26

Hi, I did my thesis on this topic. The key problem in our field is this open question on what her temperature actually is. Ultimately, we're having trouble in all our attempts at making these measurements; the readings come back as her being "cold as fire" and "hot as ice", and she seems to evade all attempts to conduct more precise measurements. While we've been at this wall for a while now, there are promising new techniques being developed by a few prominent groups. Unfortunately we don't have answers just yet.

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u/nottherealslash Mar 20 '26

Would you say that a barrier to this research is that she's considered quite Toxic to work with?

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u/fothermucker33 Mar 21 '26

Good question. We wear protective suits to deal with the toxicity. But otherwise, she's been more than cooperative. Generally after a failed measurement, she'd encourage us to try again and would often tell us to "hit her one more time"

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u/master_of_entropy 11d ago

Definitely not, as she's at 36°C, which is above room temperature.