Room temp superconducting material?

[andyoxon]

Apparently Korean group reporting discovery...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

Ground breaking if true/verified...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-im-sceptical-about-a-superconductor-breakthrough/

[Cudzoziemiec]

Tune in tomorrow for fusion!










(yeah yeah i know, shouldn't be cynical)

[Mrs Pingu]

Monorail!

Question - what will I do with a quantum computer?

[andyoxon]

...(yeah yeah i know, shouldn't be cynical)

Here’s what a superconductivity expert, Professor Jorge Hirsch at University of California at San Diego said today about the new paper: ‘It’s not superconductivity. It’s experimental artifacts, wishful thinking and poor judgment (in the best scenario).’ Experts can be wrong of course, but I am not betting on it.

Spectator

[Kim]

Monorail!

If I'm half-remembering electromagnetism properly, the critical field falls a fair bit short of doing anything really interesting (NMR, power distribution, that sort of thing) with it.  But iff it's not bollocks, then it's a hell of a step in the right direction.

[ian]

Monorail!

Question - what will I do with a quantum computer?

I dunno but someone needs to figure out a porn application if they want wide adoption.

[Mr Larrington]

Monorail!

Question - what will I do with a quantum computer?

I dunno but someone needs to figure out a porn application if they want wide adoption.

I expect you can simultaneously watch pr0n and not watch pr0n on it.  Useful for Tory MPs.

[Mrs Pingu]

 

Oh it's bound to end up in one of those creepy sex robot things.

[ian]

I’d warn you if there’s a strange nighttime hum from the local Area 69 Dildo Proving Ground, but it’s a common source of nocturnal emissions.

[rogerzilla]

Monorail!

Question - what will I do with a quantum computer?

I dunno but someone needs to figure out a porn application if they want wide adoption.

Plausible deniability exists these days.  You can claim that gigabit connection is for Netflix and online gaming for a family of five, when it's really for 4K bukkake.

[Beardy]

Dave over on EEV has just published a video with a rather scathing take on this.

Dave delivers his opinion

[andyoxon]

Technically it doesn't rule out there actually being something to LK99, but...yes, a credibility gap thing, if they made a mistake by 'overlooking' Lenz's law in that 'movement' demo.