Re:Room Temperature Superconductor Paper Retracted by Journa...
by teraflop on Thursday November 09, 2023 @08:57PM
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I don't think the inventors actually thought they had samples of a superconductor for 24 years.
My understanding is that they thought they'd detected signs that LK-99 would be superconducting, if they were able to come up with a process to synthesize it with sufficient purity. They spent 24 years (slowly, and without a lot of funding) trying to do that. And over the last couple of years, they started to convince themselves that they had succeeded.
My understanding is that they thought they'd detected signs that LK-99 would be superconducting, if they were able to come up with a process to synthesize it with sufficient purity. They spent 24 years (slowly, and without a lot of funding) trying to do that. And over the last couple of years, they started to convince themselves that they had succeeded.