Future of cables!


https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-new-electronic-state-of-matter?utm_source=...

I know very little about cable technology & even less about quantum physics. I read this & immediately thought (10+yrs down the road) this would upend cable tech: efficiency, clarity, & probably a bunch of stuff I don’t even know about that goes into cable science.

So, say hello to your new 2030 $70k cables. I’m curious what other people think.
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My word against 10,000 others? LOL I don't  really feel all alone over here. Appeals to popularity and jumping on bandwagons were never really in the cards for me. 
50,000? Wow that bandwagon keeps growing makes me feel even better not to jump on board. 
Kijanki, I understand I think we have a language problem though maybe not. You claim energy is delivered to a speaker by electromagnetic energy OUTSIDE of a cable. How does the current get to the speaker if the energy it gets is OUTSIDE of the copper or silver wire  as well as the insulation of the wire which is what makes up a CABLE  when only the metal is attached to the binding posts of the speaker. That doesn't  make any sense if that's the case we could simply toss the CABLE  somewhere near the speakers binding posts. I think, though I may be wrong, what you mean is  the energy flows on the skin of the metal wire inside the cable between the wire and insulation, not floating around in mid air OUTSIDE a cable. But like I said maybe I am still not understanding what you're  saying. 
Vibration doesn't  make a lick of difference sonically in a real world situation in people's homes except perhaps the TT or you're playing your stereo at strip club levels of noise. Then you need to worry more about going deaf than vibration. Of course you might live next door to a rock quarry where they are blasting all day in which case you also need to nail the pictures to the wall.
So far you haven’t lost me except where speakers don’t get their energy from the cable but from energy outside a cable. You still haven’t explained why is it necessary to connect the copper or banana plug or whatever we use to the speaker since the cable doesn’t carry the energy but it’s carried outside the cable. Everything you said I can follow but with a bit of trouble I need to look up a few things but what you said below you have never explained. 

Energy is delivered to speaker by electromagnetic field outside of the cable.

I read the article it’s just as I expected you are using the terms WIRE and CABLE interchangeably, they aren’t the same thing. In the article you just posted they were talking about the energy running parallel to the WIRE which is inside the INSULATION of the CABLE. WIRE is the metal inside the CABLE, there is a small electromagnetic field OUTSIDE  the CABLE but it is the one INSIDE the cable BUT on the surface and outside the WIRE that Carries the current.
LOL, Peter Belt tweaks now? Tie a yellow ribbon around an oak tree and marvel in the improved sound stage. 
Uh OK, mijostyn not sure I understand what you're  getting at but trying knots in cables isn't  science. 
Interesting article no idea if it will ever make it to the fuse/ cable nonsense. If someone can figure a way to use it they will pay out the nose for it.
Kijanki , I did read your last post and according to your link what you said doesn’t make sense. Not to mention how energy OUTSIDE a cable can drive a speaker.
Energy is delivered to speaker by electromagnetic field outside of the cable.

From the wiki link.
No energy flows outside the cable, either, since there the magnetic fields of inner and outer conductors cancel to zero.
Energy is delivered to speaker by electromagnetic field outside of the cable.  

That doesn't  make any sense. 
How? The way everyone around here proves things with subjective experience? OK, I never heard any difference between using vibration control and not using it. BAM, proved.
If you do hear a difference  it's because of expectation bias, no offense.