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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Holy fucking shit
Edit: Article was disappointing, unfortunately. A roundup of preliminary analyses, including a supercomputer simulation, a Russian amateur claiming to have synthesized it, and a Chinese lab confirming the study. Given the fact that others are having difficulty replicating this, and the other drama surrounding the discovery I’m going to need better proof than this before getting really excited.
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.
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?!
Nah. No one every gets old... Old is always 10 years older than you are now.