The Blob

This is Hugh Mann, Internet Physicist, reporting on what has to be the most unreported physics breakthrough of 2011, the worldwide meltdown of the condensed matter physics community upon the recent announcement on the condensed matter physics Arxiv of the unambiguous experimental identification of the pairing glue in the copper oxide (cuprate) superconductors to be the multi electron volt optical charge transfer excitation (exciton) of the parent insulating compound. Physicists worldwide have suddenly been struck dumb and speechless upon the sudden realization that their pants and legs are filled and covered with their own shit, with the instantaneous recognition that the unretarded, high energy, local pairing of electronically mediated strongly coupled bosons (bipolarons) is, in fact, a reality, and that twenty years of hard work on their own theories must be flushed down the toilet. This is truly a sad day for physics, people. It’s no wonder nobody besides Hugh Mann is publicly commenting on this result.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0737

Direct observation of real-time oscillations of the Cooper-pairs condensate in a high-Tc superconductor, B. Mansart, J. Lorenzana, M. Scarongella, M. Chergui and F. Carbone

http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3028

Scaling of Tc max with the charge-transfer energy in hole-doped cuprates, Cédric Weber, Chuck-Hou Yee, Kristjan Haule and Gabriel Kotliar

http://meeting.aps.org/Meeting/MAR12/Event/159625