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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)

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Researchers have discovered a new compound called LK-99 that could enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. Two separate sources have provided very preliminary confirmations of this breakthrough, including a simulation indicating it could be possible and a short video from Chinese researchers that seems to indicate some properties of superconductivity.

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yep. This is one of those world changing tech advances.

Replication is a huge step.

But I temper the excitement with the memory that I read my first The Coming Room Temp Superconductor revolution 30 or so years ago. IIRC it was a cover story in Scientific American in the early 90s.

That said, fuck I hope they have cracked a scalable RTS.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

First off, don't refer to the 90's as "30" years ago. That's just rude dude....

Second, yeah this has been an ongoing theme for decades....

Wait, did I get old? What the fuck?!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Wait, did I get old?

Nah. No one every gets old... Old is always 10 years older than you are now.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Agreed, I want to believe so bad, but the Meisner effect is so easy to fake with cameras that even video proof doesn’t cut it for me. I guess at this point it’ll take a preprint from a National Lab . Thankfully that won’t take long apparently given how easy this is to synthesize.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The 90s were 30 years ago? Damn.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

"The Matrix" was released closer in time to the French Revolution than to today.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Please. Spare me.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

GenXer reading this... First time?

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