Oh man I look forward to this only needing 5 more years before we build one!
Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
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Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm following this fellow: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip Seems to have the right energy [edit thanks folks] https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944 Here’s a more colorful play by play as well: https://nitter.net/8teapi/status/1684586672917565443
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You can use the nitter frontend: https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip
Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm following this fellow: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip Seems to have the right energy [edit thanks folks] https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944 Here’s a more colorful play by play as well: https://nitter.net/8teapi/status/1684586672917565443
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You can see the full thread via alternative Twitter clients like Nitter: https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944
Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#34A source (German) attributed to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research thinks the paper is bogus [0] [0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9a3f8740
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Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#35My issue here is: This new material is essentially standard "high temperature" YBCO superconductor material just slightly modified, or? The authors are not doing anything dramatically new, like a new chemistry. How likely is it that all the other 1000s of labs doing research on this topic just missed this lucky combination of baking, cooling and whatnot?
> My issue here is: This new material is essentially standard "high temperature" YBCO superconductor material just slightly modified, or? The authors are not doing anything dramatically new, like a new chemistry.
There is no Pb in YBCO, what are you on about?
Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm following this fellow: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip Seems to have the right energy [edit thanks folks] https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944 Here’s a more colorful play by play as well: https://nitter.net/8teapi/status/1684586672917565443
Is this guy posting anywhere besides Twitter (or... X)? I can't view without an account.
LOL they really renamed it X? I see they even bought x.com which surely they paid some ridiculous amount for, and yet they wasn’t able to spend any cent on original logo, at least X.org logo as an orange O.
Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#37So, has anyone seen any of the replication studies start coming in yet? From what I've read we seem to be waiting on those. (and I think they're likely coming today or tomorrow?)
Today might be a bit soon. We only caught wind of this Tuesday and there's about two days of cooking to be done in the process. Friday if someone is basically livestreaming and literally had everything on hand. My guess is more likely Monday for the aggressive builders that get it right the first time (if it's able to be got right). Then Wednesday/next Thursday for attempt number 2 to complete out for some people.
Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#38"this may spark a revolution in electronics as significant as the invention of the transistor, vacuum tube, and induction motor." How, exactly?
Maglev trains, fusion power plants, fanless super computers in your pocket that charge in a minute and don't get hot. Basically utopia.
Maybe it will be the thing that gives the US a nudge towards building a high speed train network. Commodity maglev would be generational leap over existing high speed rail. It would be an economic driver for the US, and take a lot of planes out of the sky, and even freight off the roads.
Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#39Can someone explain why this is a big deal? The author cites that it doesn't need an explanation, but I definitely need one lol.
Conduct electricity with zero resistance. This has been possible at cryogenic temperatures (powers supermagnets, MRI etc) but running at room temperature _and pressure_ means in theory that you don’t need expensive support machinery. Has been the holy grail for the field. If true, this specific case is only low current, but demonstrates such a thing is possible - almost certainly winning an instant Nobel Prize.
Does this mean there would be no heat waste? And devices like phones and computers wouldn't get hot?
Re: Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
#40A source (German) attributed to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research thinks the paper is bogus [0] [0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9a3f8740
In a week there will be a lot of thinkpieces on how the internet got this so wrong. A lot of people just want to believe, full of hope, because their life situations (poverty, housing crisis, hot weather) are so dire.