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Read the graph, there is a sharp drop in resistance from 220K-250K. Its still not superconducting but it could be hinting something?
by creatorpiece123 3y ago
Read the graph, there is a sharp drop in resistance from 220K-250K. Its still not superconducting but it could be hinting something?
- valine 3y agoThat’s what I was thinking. In the video he brushes it off as a potential equipment malfunction, but perhaps it’s the effect everyone is looking for.
- jacquesm 3y agoI'm really curious what the eventual explanation of this is and whether other teams will observe this happening as well.
- pokey00 3y agoA sudden discontinuity like that but continuing the same curve and jumping back... that's equipment malfunction 99% of the time.
- valine 3y agoSeems reasonable, then again we're dealing with a potential superconductor where sudden discontinuity is the expected result.
- jacquesm 3y agoAnd yet, they published that instead of figuring out what is possibly wrong with their gear which in turn may invalidate the rest of the their results. I'm not going to second guess their motivations though, they probably know what they are doing but it is interesting and deserves explanation.
- baq 3y agoWhy publish this graph without running the measurements again though? Serious question since I’ve no idea about the effort needed to get this data. I’ve got a small hope that they actually did and found the effect didn’t go away. They’ll still say ’equipment malfunction’, there isn’t any downside, only upside if it gets reproduced somewhere else.
- azernik 3y agoCould indicate some superconducting regions in the whole sample, or some weird anisotropic superconduction at higher temps... That sharp drop, if not equipment error, could be a lot of things.