Oh, I see the disconnect. In my imaginary high temperature superconductor predictor, it tells you the confluence of factors required to produce zero resistance,

Oh, I see the disconnect. In my imaginary high temperature superconductor predictor, it tells you the confluence of factors required to produce zero resistance, and based on that sketch you go find the combinations of atoms that will stay in roughly that configuration and test them. I understand that we are not there yet and these models only currently exist in piecemeal/can be used in the negative. My higher-level intended meaning is that since we have so far been fairly unable to theoretically “find” a room temperature superconductor, if one exists it may rely on an effect for which we don’t have a theoretical model, which means that ruling it out based on existing theoretical models sort of just confirms that we don’t understand how it works, if it works.