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Room-temperature superconductors have so many urgent commercial uses that if this fake, I doubt the error will persist for that long. There's too much at stake.
by Analemma_ 3y ago
Room-temperature superconductors have so many urgent commercial uses that if this fake, I doubt the error will persist for that long. There's too much at stake.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThere's also probably a hundred labs skipping over replication completely to try and beat someone else out on a random permutation of these materials and methods and hoping to get lucky.
- gus_massa 3y agoYes, "replication" in this experiments usualy means foloeing the oficial recipe and many small variants. Publishing an exact reproduction is difficult, but a new record a few degrees hotter is easy. (And even another variant with a lower temperature and more tolerance for current or magnetic field can be published with the right text.)
- lolc 3y agoI can't see why they'd skip replication given the uncertain status of the original process. They'd try to replicate as closely as possible, confirm they have a superconducting material, then they'd branch out from their established process. Starting from a variation means they don't know whether it doesn't work because of the variation or because it doesn't work at all.
- stu255 3y agoI hear some very clever labs can do more than one thing at a time.
- curiousObject 3y agoThat’s not unreasonable, but the high-risk, high-reward approach would be to let researchers elsewhere do basic verification, while you try to leap a step ahead of them by going directly to derivative variations. Abandon the work if nobody can replicate LK-99 within a few weeks and you haven’t really lost out badly.
- cryptonector 3y agoBoiling-water-temperature superconductors. Pinch me, it feels like a dream.