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toshk | 2 years ago

Breakthroughs are exciting; hoping it's true!

But I understand nothing of this field

What's the general consensus here, real or not?

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hcks|2 years ago

The consensus on HN is that it’s le epic exciting discovery. The consensus among physicist is that’s it’s likely to be a dud

justrealist|2 years ago

> The consensus among physicist is that’s it’s likely to be a dud

That's really not true. It's unclear whether it's a superconductor, but the consensus worst-case outcome is that something very unexpected is happening, which is in itself worth learning more about.

singularity2001|2 years ago

The consensus 'here' unfortunately does not seem to reflect the very critical consensus amongst r/Physics :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/15i3h9d/lk99_megat...

Freedom2|2 years ago

The comments here are of a higher quality (due to top tier moderation) and generally the community is smarter and more in tune. I'd go with the HN consensus any day, over some random subreddit.

oxfordmale|2 years ago

It is a discovery of an interesting semi conductor with strong diamagnetism.

It will likely spur a lot of new solid state physics research.

beanjuice|2 years ago

Sources for this as the consensus take? Or is this your personal take? As far as I have heard, it is still well under discussion, especially with more recently (per this weekend) levitating flakes, and the fact that noone has successfully replicated a certain-failure of actual conducting properties.