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It's a reasonable enough paper, and replicating should be pretty easy (an undergrad could do it). Because the implications are so massive if true, people are go

It's a reasonable enough paper, and replicating should be pretty easy (an undergrad could do it). Because the implications are so massive if true, people are going to jump on it. From the linked article: > You can bet that furnaces in solid-state materials labs around the world have been cooking yesterday and today to try to reproduce its synthesis and the properties, and we should be hearing about the results of these experiments very soon. The first samples should be coming out of the quartz vessels. . .sometime tomorrow, perhaps? Depends on what was available around the lab!

floxy 3y ago
Yes, that quote from the article makes it seem like everyone is dropping everything and jumping right on it. I'm wondering how likely that is we'll find out this Friday vs. in the next couple of months, as people get around to it.
- scarmig 3y ago
  Friday is more plausible than a couple months. If the radio silence ends up extending well-into next week, people are having trouble replicating and want to cross their ts before calling it out as fraud.
- kadoban 3y ago
  It's an easy thing to attempt to replicate, and it's probably _the_ single biggest goal in a particular field of science in at least decades. It's impossible that at least some people didn't drop everything to try it.
- bluGill 3y ago
  That depends on how easy it is to replicate, and if it is true. If it is easy (the 24 hour in the furnace is really long enough for everything to get to temperature - 10 minutes is enough in ideal cases) then we will get lots of success Tomorrow. If it is hard, well we will get a lot of failures, but a few will try again an in a month as they refine technique will report a success. If it is false we may never get a final report, just everyone gives up on reproducing it. (though with the hype we may see it like cold fusion were a few not very good researchers keep it alive via badly done experiments). Only time will tell.

floxy 3y ago

Yes, that quote from the article makes it seem like everyone is dropping everything and jumping right on it. I'm wondering how likely that is we'll find out this Friday vs. in the next couple of months, as people get around to it.

scarmig 3y ago
Friday is more plausible than a couple months. If the radio silence ends up extending well-into next week, people are having trouble replicating and want to cross their ts before calling it out as fraud.
kadoban 3y ago
It's an easy thing to attempt to replicate, and it's probably _the_ single biggest goal in a particular field of science in at least decades. It's impossible that at least some people didn't drop everything to try it.
bluGill 3y ago
That depends on how easy it is to replicate, and if it is true. If it is easy (the 24 hour in the furnace is really long enough for everything to get to temperature - 10 minutes is enough in ideal cases) then we will get lots of success Tomorrow. If it is hard, well we will get a lot of failures, but a few will try again an in a month as they refine technique will report a success. If it is false we may never get a final report, just everyone gives up on reproducing it. (though with the hype we may see it like cold fusion were a few not very good researchers keep it alive via badly done experiments). Only time will tell.