it 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

it 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.