From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!norskog
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re: long superconductors - (nf)
Article-I.D.: fortune.706
Posted: Mon Dec 27 16:03:59 1982
Received: Tue Dec 28 02:56:23 1982

#R:sri-unix:-492300:fortune:8600001:000:196
fortune!norskog    Dec 27 15:20:00 1982

Know what happens if you supercool one end of a wire and not the other?
The wire dances around like a snake and breaks.

Unless, of course, the material has an expansion coefficient of
exactly 0.