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Regular evidence will suffice. If people can make the material and levitate a small permanent magnet above the sample at room temperature, that will be suffici
by floxy 3y ago
Regular evidence will suffice. If people can make the material and levitate a small permanent magnet above the sample at room temperature, that will be sufficient.
- nine_k 3y ago"Extraordinarily" may mean here "reproduced in 100 laboratories consistently", beyond any doubt.
- floxy 3y ago>"reproduced in 100 laboratories consistently" That's a pretty high bar. Everyone has their own threshold of skepticism, but if NREL announced next week that they followed the recipe and it was superconducting at room temperature, I'd be willing to bet money on it being real.
- nine_k 3y agoHigh indeed, as in "extraordinary". I think that "reproduced at 100 labs" is near the level of reproduction at any university lab, maybe even as a part of students coursework. Which would actually be great, since we don't have trouble reproducing some other important electromagnetic and quantum phenomena, like light diffraction, at an ordinary university lab.
- floxy 3y agoYes, I'm saying my threshold is a lot lower than reproducibility at 100 labs.
- jjk166 3y agoIf 99 labs reproduce the results and 1 doesn't, my guess would be that the one lab screwed up. Realistically, once you get a handful of independent reproductions, the odds that something is an error or a fraud drop to basically nil.