LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superconductor

Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by Vicinity9635 on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:57PM (#36949451)

Devil's advocate: If the existing material and the process to make it can't be replicated, who really cares? Well, aside from the people who might deserve a Nobel. The rest of the world doesn't because we can't all share it like some kind of magical medallion.

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Re:LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superc... by cthalupa on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:04PM (#36949505)

I'm on the "Probably a nothingburger" side of things but just getting confirmation that it is possible and some understanding of what the process involved is is a massive jump for science.

If it's actually superconducting we've got a wide variety of ways to inspect what LK99 actually is that will shed a whole lot of light on how to create more of it, or more of a similar superconductor. It'll be one of the most important scientific achievements in our lifetimes regardless of whether or not it can be replicated with the process in the paper.

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