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I'm currently skeptical, as these are extraordinary claims. But it doesn't matter what my current guess is. This claim either replicates or it doesn't. I reall
by dwheeler 3y ago
I'm currently skeptical, as these are extraordinary claims.
But it doesn't matter what my current guess is. This claim either replicates or it doesn't. I really hope it replicates. If it does, then even if this material can't be directly used to change industry, it's quite likely to lead to materials that do. So I'm crossing my fingers!
- mcmoor 3y agoTrue science at its best. Don't care about who why how when one writes it. It either replicates or it doesn't!!
- paulmd 3y agoit really seems like a "can we get people to believe in/falsely claim replication of a miraculous scientific breakthrough" study. Red Mercury, if you will. I realize this is probably a geopolitical can of worms but if it exists and they've produced samples of it, send it to switzerland (CERN?) or someone and let them look at it. That's significant even in the absence of reproducibility of the manufacturing process itself, and if they have something, that's an easy way to prove it. The scientific world would love to look at a sample of a very unusual material. but yes, it would always be nice if the world was reproducibly quite different than our current models imply, and if there's something novel here then this may just be the first in a family of materials that may behave similarly, once the effect is understood. 97C is a wildly high superconducting temperature, having hot superconductors would be world-changing, there's all kinds of places that would be applicable - you don't even need cryocooling at that point.