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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It's been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world's first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results

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[–] anlumo@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

Those two things aren’t remotely comparable. Solar roadways are technically totally possible without any new inventions, they are just a fundamentally stupid idea.

The whole point of replication by other groups is to rule out parlor tricks. If it can be replicated by independent labs and even works in simulations, it’s real. That’s why this is a preliminary paper at the moment.