I think it might still be too early to say for certain. It appears that a lot of the teams working on replication have pretty different outcomes and I think the theoretical studies have shown superconduction may be possible when a very specific structure forms, so maybe the formula just isn't perfected yet or it needs very specific conditions to form correctly. We'll know soon enough though, it's at the very least still an interesting material that deserves more looking into.
Those who FOMO-bought into superconductor stocks are going to be in immense pain next week if they haven't already sold.
Stock prices of Duksung, Seowon and Mobiis ― local manufacturers of tech and materials ― all posted surges during the past few sessions. The price of Duksung rose by 155 percent, Seowon by 73 percent and Mobiis by 127 percent during this week alone.
(from https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2023/08/602_356316.html)
Jesus christ...
And thats how the cookie crumbles. A little sad to see scientists to lie out of their ass.
From what I understood the ones that made the initial discovery weren't initially trying to make room temperature superconductors and just kinda stumbled upon it and also might not fully understand either how superconductors work or how to test for it, and all tried to rush the paper out.
Is a diamagnetic semiconductor still a useful discovery, or do we already have those?
Still useful, and possibly opens the door to a new branch of research using similar methods which might result in even more discoveries in the future.
Even if this turns out to be a complete nothingburger then as long as there wasn't any fraud involved, it's still useful for the future.
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