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> It's a shame that these papers were published before they were polished by the authors. Indeed. It's also a shame that they chose to use language like: "We
by p-e-w 3y ago
> It's a shame that these papers were published before they were polished by the authors.
Indeed. It's also a shame that they chose to use language like:
"We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind."
When you make grandiose boasts like these, you better be fucking certain you are correct.
- nonethewiser 3y agoYou'd think they'd find a new word
- dekhn 3y ago"superpressreleasing"
- OJFord 3y agoI think a huge part of that is translation: imagine what you might sound like if you wrote a press release for or tried to explain to a layman some project you're involved in, and then had it translated to Korean. Some benign description of why room temp atmospheric pressure superconductors are interesting becomes 'a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind'.
- p-e-w 3y ago> imagine what you might sound like if you wrote a press release for or tried to explain to a layman some project you're involved in, and then had it translated to Korean. My understanding is that this was supposed to be a (draft of a) research paper, not a "press release". The article certainly doesn't read like laymen are the intended audience. > Some benign description of why room temp atmospheric pressure superconductors are interesting becomes 'a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind'. Although I don't speak Korean, I strongly doubt that.
- jfoutz 3y agoWasn’t the paper leaked by the industry guy? Didn’t he edit it to include himself? He might have jazzed up some other wording as well. It’s worth giving the benefit of the doubt to the final product. Let’s get some replication (or not) and go from there.
- XorNot 3y agoWhen you're claiming you have a room temperature superconductor, it would be more suspicious if you weren't claiming that. Because if LK99 works, then that's exactly what it is. It'll be material of the century.
- p-e-w 3y agoLook at some of the most ground-breaking research papers in the history of science, such as the Watson/Crick DNA structure papers. They literally discovered the core of life itself, which is infinitely more important than a room-temperature superconductor. Yet they are incredibly modest about it, and don't waste a single sentence waxing philosophical about what all this means etc. In a similar vein, Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in a lecture modestly called "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations" – not "The Historic Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with Endless Implications for the Future of Mathematics". This isn't how science is typically done.
- fbdab103 3y agoNice to be modest after building off of Rosalind Franklin's unaccredited work.
- supazek 3y agoBut she is brought up constantly and annoyingly in this regard. Why be a negative Nancy? There’s books from not long after the discovery that tell her story. You don’t think there are people who are legitimately forgotten in the process of every discovery?
- progman32 3y agoI'm perfectly willing to forgive some hubris if their claims turn out to be accurate. Watson and Crick are not a great choice of role model for good character.
- SamPatt 3y ago