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Re:Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist M... by brucethemoose2 on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:11PM (#35098449)
> he raised $20 million in VC funding for his “room-temperature superconductor”

Did they tell the VCs the "room temperature superconductors" needs to operate under more pressure than you'd find in the center of the Earth?

Re:Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist M... by feoren on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:47PM (#35099045)
Pressure that is well within humanity's capability to produce and maintain at small-ish scales (not intercontinental transmission lines, but within a factory). 100x less pressure than the previous record. If these results were real, it would absolutely be an enormous scientific leap forward and lead to new technologies, and I don't see a reason to minimize that. Of course, it's all fabricated bullshit, so I guess it's a moot point.