• wahming@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure how significant this is. They basically said ‘we read your study and it didn’t make sense to us, nor did the video’. There was no attempt at replication. Which would be fine and all, except that others have reported varying degrees of success in their replication attempts, indicating there’s at least a little fire behind the smoke.

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      1 year ago

      You’re right, they basically released a statement thay they’re incredible skeptical but they will test things further to see.

      That being said the company thay initially release the video like about who it worked with to develop this compound, and one or two of the people who conducted the research released the report without the approval of the whole team. So there are some tell tale signs of a scam or half truths here.

      I am hoping that this compound actually is a room temp super conductor, because it would revolutionize so many industries, but things aren’t looking great lol.

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      1 year ago

      The onus is on the researchers making the extraordinary claims.

      Extraordinary claims require solid proof. That’s like science 101.

      • schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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        It’s not a remotely extraordinary claim though.

        They claim to have found an unreliable, method for generating impure samples of a superconductor type predicted by a 40 year old theory.

        One member of their group jumped the gun on publishing before the people that did the bulk of the work were ready, so the others released more detailed info on what they had so far.