A Korean superconductivity academic body invalidated the research results from a team of Korean researchers claiming to have developed a room-temperature superconductor in its preliminary assessment.
  • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
    59·
    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.

    • candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      30·
      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.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
      93·
      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.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Further, they were shown to be liars. FTA:

    Meanwhile, the Quantum Energy Research Centre was found to have falsely named local companies and research institutes as partners on its website on Thursday.

    The company shut down its homepage that day.

    […]

    However, LG Innotek said that it “has no connection whatsoever” with Quantum Energy Research Centre.

    “We have asked the Quantum Energy Research Centre to remove our company’s logo from its website, and to explain how it has been misappropriated,” the electronic device part supplier said.

    Samsung SDI and Samsung Electro-Mechanics confirmed that “no official request has been made [from Quantum Energy] for partnership.”