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I don't know, we're already getting lots of interesting results in the first round of replication attempts (eg diamagnets, confirmed 0 resistance at 110K, etc).
by PoignardAzur 3y ago
I don't know, we're already getting lots of interesting results in the first round of replication attempts (eg diamagnets, confirmed 0 resistance at 110K, etc).
It doesn't feel far-fetched to think at one point a lab will go big and bake, like, two hundred samples in a row with slightly different compositions until they stumble upon a winning combo.
- lucubratory 3y agoLike I said, a successful replication could happen at any moment. I was just cautioning that failures to replicate this early mean barely anything, and it would be historically extremely lucky if a paper like this (materials science, complicated synthesis, not well written) got replicated inside six months. Basically, unless evidence of fraud comes out we're not going to be able to rule out this result being real for months, at least. Also, we could get some really great evidence or a successful replication any day. It's just a waiting game.