Not really, it’s just more speculation about the experiment. It’s worth as much as anyone else’s salt about the matter.

It's from a guy of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.

He sounds rather bitter and arrogant. He basically just called them idiots. As if none of the researchers would have noticed the measurement error. Perhaps he’s right - we’ll know in a few days I assume. I do hope they are right though not only because it would be a huge leap but also because I’d love to see this guys reaction.

Lee and Kim have been working on this stuff for a long time. They published prematurely after major falling out within their institute.

This isn't 1 experiment as the Germans seem to think. There are multiple papers, patents, etc.

The main focus of these papers has been to make huge claims and make replication very easy. They are "all in" and they want others to call.

If they were bluffing they would be heavy on results and light/secretive on how to make the stuff (trade secret, etc).

That's why there are 2x papers published within 3 hours, both with different authors, and you have one author telling New Scientist he did not approve of a paper naming him as an author.

> He sounds rather bitter and arrogant.

That might be your interpretation of it. I think the Germans would call it being straightforward.

It's a cultural thing, we tend to spare the buns from the sandwich feedback ;)