South Korean researchers said they found a superconductor that works at room temperature, which has long been considered a holy grail for scientists in the field.

Last week, two papers by South Korean scientists made an extraordinary claim that sparked a social media frenzy and pushed up prices of some stocks in China and South Korea: the discovery of a practical superconductor.

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  • @schroedingershat
    1•1 year ago

    Extraordinary consequences are not extraordinary claims. It’s probably a perfectly boring and normal advancement of physics that will take a long time to bear fruit if it is even possible to use it, or possibly an interesting anomaly with little application.

    The only one making unsubstantiated absolute positive claims here is you.

    • @GlitzyArmrest
      -1•1 year ago

      Huh? What consequences? Nothing has been proven yet.

      You seem to be confusing faith with science. That’s not how science works.

      • @schroedingershat
        1•1 year ago

        There is no extraordinary claim. The claim follows the exact pattern of the discovery of type ii superconductors (right down to BCS failing to predict it and gatekeepers swarming to shout about how it is an "extraordinary claim). Multiple independent simulations predict the material will be interesting, and the 40 year old theory that did predict type ii superconductors was used to find it. I’m asserting nothing other than that the most likely explanation for the five independent reproductions is the simplest.

        The potential impact on society if it is a superconductor and not a novel diamagnet, and if a process can be found to make pure bulk material is large. You’re trying to conflate this with an extraordinary claim.

        The potential impact if it is a novel diamagnet on theoretical physics is large. This would be the more extraordinary claim, and insofar as you have said anything at all, you are actively making this claim (or you are claiming that three universities are conspiring to fake videos).

        You seem to be confusing faith with science. That’s not how science works

        Et tu. Brutus. Additionally science does not work by gatekeeping and invoking magic words like “peer review” without actually paying attention to the meaning of those words. It’s just a short hand for “get someonenelse who knows what they are doing to try and falsify your work”. The LK-99 paper has already had much, much more scrutiny than the average publication.

        • @GlitzyArmrest
          0•1 year ago

          That’s a lot of word vomit to say that there is no peer reviewed evidence yet.

          Notice how I’m not closing the door on it completely? Yet you seem to be completely sold in regard to the original claims with there being little to no evidence, and in fact NO peer reviewed evidence yet.