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I don't care about any of this drama. I could be wrong but as I understand it the claim is that lanarkite and copper phosphide, when ground together at a 1:1 r
by loxias 3y ago
I don't care about any of this drama.
I could be wrong but as I understand it the claim is that lanarkite and copper phosphide, when ground together at a 1:1 ratio, sealed under vacuum in a quartz tube, and heated to 925C, become a *room temperature superconductor*.
This claim is incredible and verifiable, so much so that it annoys me to hear any side chatter.
We should know "soon" (c.f. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-supercond...)
- xeromal 3y agoI don't know anything about science but it sounds like from your comment that the best thing about this claim is that it's not smoke and mirrors. It either works or it doesn't and there are a set of instructions that shows how to do it.
- loxias 3y agoYup. It either works or it doesn't. Unlike many other claims, this one doesn't require anything rare or super hard to do. The furnace, tubes, materials, could be bought for around $10k. I'm only a hobbyist scientist. When I saw the pre-print my first thought was "if this works, why the f- haven't we noticed before!? Someone should have done this accidentally freshman year!" The good news is we shouldn't have to wait long. The bad news is that we have to wait at all.
- hilbertseries 3y agoVery different than the six years it took before the mathematics community found a flaw in Mochizuki‘a abc conjecture proof.