this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
266 points (97.2% liked)

Technology

59300 readers
4699 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It's been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world's first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] dbilitated@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thank you!

this almost seems like it could be something ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, not really. You can tell by his "95% confidence" quip where he tries to make his opinion sound scientific.

I hope this works, but there's more reason to be skeptical than positive. There have been an awful lot of replication failures.

Wait until it's reproduced somewhere outside of a simulation or China. People are working on it, because if one in a hundred of these seemingly bogus claims turns out to be true, the 99 wasted efforts will still have been worth it.

[โ€“] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yep, imo it seems like this is just the first step of room temperature superconductors, there is LOTS of room for improvement, even if LK-99 itself isn't useful for anything real-world I think it at the very least is a jumping-off point for innovation on the concept, and finding more compounds that have similar properties