installed... I didn't realise how much I missed it!
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if a mayor of a town in Afghanistan told everyone he wants the US to invade while bombs are falling on his countrymen? yeah. I'd feel the same way?
he probably should have expected that
actually agree, I copied the summary but it's more sensational than it should be.. I'm excited but I've just gone from 1% believing it to 5%, it's far from confirmed.
considering what it would mean I'm still super excited however.. but I'll edit the summary
Berkley one is simulation, one is a chinese lab that seems to have replicated some of the actual material and confirmed some properties of superconductivity.
someone is tracking a lot of different efforts here: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/07/tracking-lk-99-superconductor-replication-efforts.html
thank you!
this almost seems like it could be something 😬
According to the simulation apparently it only works if the copper atoms end up in an unlikely place in the crystal, so fabrication might be unreliable. I recall someone in another thread saying the authors themselves had around a 10% success rate. So other efforts to replicate are likely to see more failures until the fabrication is better understood. Makes sense I guess.
The fact that another team saw something I think is really hopeful, even if it's hard to produce and poorly understood, if there is a room-temp effect then it's only a matter of time before it's studied properly and understood. From there hopefully a reliable method of fabrication can be published.
If there is no effect replicated anywhere then the paper is fraud, but if there's any effect replicated then it's just a matter of study and engineering to figure out what it is. It would be interesting even if it isn't exactly room temp superconductivity.
wait, really? other people have confirmed this might be real? I'm not sure i'm ready for that.. i don't dare hope, you know?
but also, if another unrelated team has demonstrated room-temp Meissner effect, that means this might be true, right?
to be fair I thought the same! that's weird 🤯
yeah I'd prefer a PR that removes the filename and actually builds so it could be merged.. the emojis might be better as a comment. although json doesn't support comments iirc so maybe just a thoughtful commit message.
that all seems pretty reasonable! enjoying these updates btw, thanks for posting
at that price you could afford the reddit api.. not that i'd want to