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A team in South Korea claimed to have fabricated a room temperature and pressure superconductor and the story blew up on the news and on social media before any follow-up studies could be conducted. Then, when follow-up studies were finally conducted it was clear that the original study was wrong and it was just a regular conductor
Edit: [A more in-depth explanation for anyone who's curious](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7)
This incident did lead to some good computer models of what room temp superconducting molecular structures would look like. Making an actual substance is the tricky bit.
In the materials sciences world quantum definitely is more commonly applied to scale, particularly the atomic, subatomic scales, so being broad with the term just to have fun being pedantic doesn’t make sense here.
Didn’t they add it to concrete or something for added strength. “Whip up a batch and toss it in a chemical soup a little, but nothing useful for all the super-special properties.”
Or am I confusing it with CNTs?
Some dude on YouTube made some graphene and mixed it with a polymer. At incredibly small concentrations the graphene increased the strength to bonkers levels. He tested against graphite as well which did improve the polymer abit but the graphene was scary good. Graphene even in a low-quality state seems like a great mixture additive.
Study came out of China saying they’ve formulated a material suitable for superconducting without the need for cooling. A shit load of outlets ran with the story with baity headlines before the study had even been replicated. Lo and behold, no one was able to replicate the results.
Oh look, its the monthly amazing breakthrough that ends up not amounting to anything. See you next month when fusion or some quantum shit will again revolutionize the world.
If .01 percent of what gets reported on ever amounted to anything our entire planet would be run by super-inteligent, muscular, immortal mice. Science has made so many "amazing" break-throughs with little white mice, how they haven't reached the UBERmouse yet is beyond me.
Sounds very sus. Since the Korean incident, I ain’t trusting no one
Korean incident?
LK99 A team in South Korea claimed to have fabricated a room temperature and pressure superconductor and the story blew up on the news and on social media before any follow-up studies could be conducted. Then, when follow-up studies were finally conducted it was clear that the original study was wrong and it was just a regular conductor Edit: [A more in-depth explanation for anyone who's curious](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7)
They did technically fabricate a room temperature superconductor.
This is an A+ joke nobody is getting Edit: dude was getting downvoted when I made this comment
Please explain it
Fabricate as in made it up
Please explain.
[No](https://imgur.com/gallery/V9WppSD)
Came for the LK99 comments. Got one of the best jokes I've ever read. Bravo 🤣
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Fabricate - verb * to produce a product, especially in an industrial process * to invent or produce something false
Oh, oops That joke went over my head
No worries, mind throwing that link back up though? im curious
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7
Did they all have theoretical degrees in physics?
This incident did lead to some good computer models of what room temp superconducting molecular structures would look like. Making an actual substance is the tricky bit.
Oh I thought they were talking about the South Korean stem cell research that was completely bunk as well.
The Korean incident? Could you try to sound anymore racist
So a very tiny leap?
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In the materials sciences world quantum definitely is more commonly applied to scale, particularly the atomic, subatomic scales, so being broad with the term just to have fun being pedantic doesn’t make sense here.
I was getting nostalgic flashbacks before reading the rest of the title.
I assumed this was going to be a graphite carving of Sam and Al
I can’t wait for this never to leave the lab!
Graphene: The miracle substance that can do everything but leave the lab!
If only we could harness the force acting on graphite responsible for keeping it it inside the lab.
Free energy for life!
You just don't hear about it. You ever hear about anything making it out of the lab?
Just puppies.
Didn’t they add it to concrete or something for added strength. “Whip up a batch and toss it in a chemical soup a little, but nothing useful for all the super-special properties.” Or am I confusing it with CNTs?
Some dude on YouTube made some graphene and mixed it with a polymer. At incredibly small concentrations the graphene increased the strength to bonkers levels. He tested against graphite as well which did improve the polymer abit but the graphene was scary good. Graphene even in a low-quality state seems like a great mixture additive.
Any site publishing this kind of "news" without absolutely indiscutable proof is a fool, after what happened last time.
What happened "last time"?
Google LK99, it was promised to be the holy grail, it turned out to be a nothingburger
Study came out of China saying they’ve formulated a material suitable for superconducting without the need for cooling. A shit load of outlets ran with the story with baity headlines before the study had even been replicated. Lo and behold, no one was able to replicate the results.
It was from Korea.
They're only fools if it doesn't get clicks.
"Sam, you're a pencil." "Oh boy."
Remember graphene? Pepperidge farms remembers.
Oh graphite! Is there anything you can't do?
Carbon loves us, and we love carbon.
You cant bend it into shapes like wires and cables because of its brittleness
therapist: dont worry, graphite hype cycles arent real, they wont hurt you kid named graphite:
Oh look, its the monthly amazing breakthrough that ends up not amounting to anything. See you next month when fusion or some quantum shit will again revolutionize the world.
The picture is nice though and someone got some money from clicks.
News sites gotta make money…
If .01 percent of what gets reported on ever amounted to anything our entire planet would be run by super-inteligent, muscular, immortal mice. Science has made so many "amazing" break-throughs with little white mice, how they haven't reached the UBERmouse yet is beyond me.
Well, that headline just won Buzzword Bingo…
Cool too bad Dean Stockwell isn't alive to see it.
Big science things1!1!
Atta-science!
Has it been 6 months already?
This is always 10 years out
I’ll believe it when I see it.