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Huge if this is true. Claim is: They have attained superconductivity at room temperature and ambient pressure. Also superconductivity holds till 127 C.
There is a discussion on Hacker News
Lol. How many times has this been claimed?
Reposting the top comment from there:
All that may be true, but dismissing claims by pointing to affiliation and previous work (or lack thereof) is bad form in science. What proves or disproves a claim is data. I do find it striking that they claim a Meissner effect observation, which limits the possibilities to only a correct discovery or deliberate fraud.
There have been developments in high-temperature high-pressure superconductors this year, but as far as I know this is the first claim ever of a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. And not just some vague “evidence for superconductivity”, but every test you could possibly want with a cooking recipe to boot. That’s why it’s almost certainly a hoax - it’s too big of a leap from current leading edge and everything one could hope for - but if someone DID stumble onto such a recipe, this is what that discovery would look like at first.
I like the physicist urge to call 10 kbar “near ambient”
I know, right? Or calling cryonics “high temperature” 😆
anything above 20 K is high to them smh