JUST HAPPENED!!1!11
I’ll believe it when its not just youtube clickbait.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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I mean, publishing on youtube gets more viewers than publishing in a scientific paper
I'm not sure that "number of eyeballs" is the metric by which a successful scientific discovery should be judged...
Nonsense; this is the future.
Everything is shit in the future!
You're right, of course, but more eyeballs can lead to more sponsorship and more money, which leads to a greater chance of succes. Downside is that you've picked the commercial road and you'll probably end up in the pocket of some Nestle or Shell.
It would be cool if these YouTubers could wait til the paper was peer reviewed and its results replicated before shooting their mouth off
For people put off by the shitty title, the video is actually really good and comprehensive, and sets realistic expectations. It's a shame that these garbage clickbaity titles are a thing.
Being a content creator these days is not easy! I forgive him for the clickbait.
Agreed! If it lets people like this guy make videos like this, a little clickbait isn't so bad. I just wish they'd phrase titles slightly differently, like "THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING" would still draw eyes without being a lie.
I found the arxiv papers more interesting, but it's not a bad divulgation video.
Not to be snobbish or anything, but at this juncture I wouldn't trust anyone who can't pronounce arXiv (or Schrieffer for that matter) correctly to explain room temperature superconductivity to me. Hell I barely believe anyone with a materials/physics degree...
Doing that cute "X is chi" thing TeX does is kinda obvious but I have to tell you that it's probably you who's pronouncing Schrieffer wrong. Because Americans can't pronounce German names, not even their own.
Also just wait until your hear the takes economists will have. They're going to set the record for how many fields a single statement can be simultaneously wrong in (including, of course, their own).
The point is there are established conventions among the practitioners on how these are pronounced, and not getting them right says something about the youtuber who may otherwise appear as an expert.
You might be right on how the name 'Schrieffer' should be pronounced in its original tongue, but I've heard multiple former students and colleagues of Bob Schrieffer pronounce it otherwise to conclude that theirs is probably how Schrieffer himself intended his name to be pronounced.
Yeah, can't wait to hear economists' take, or The Economist's..
I don't see where the person you're responding to said they're American
John Robert Schrieffer, one of the original superconductivity guys, is American.
juncture
at this junction, you mean! wink wink
Hi ~~Joe~~ Brian
We get one of those about once a year, and none of them have been replicated yet.
Yes, see... it stops working when it leaves their lab.
Then we should build a huge battery right there in their lab and let it store energy for the whole world.
Did it even work in the lab? Replication is needed, otherwise they might have had something else happen. For that matter even if it really happened, if it can't be duplicated it changes nothing
If this gets peer reviewed and confirmed, what would that mean? What applications would this material have?
Remote power generation becomes much more useful since you can eliminate transmission losses. Things like covering the Sahara with solar panels to sell energy to Europe become possible to think about.
what I can think of
No resistance => faster tech, less temp in tech
Hovering things, especially for public transportation
Cheaper mri
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everything uses copper wire and want to reduce resistance can use superconductor.
Everything. Instant prize too
The Wikipedia for LK-99 is fairly solid... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99
260° F?!
If that's true, this would be a huge fucking deal. But most room temperature superconductors don't operate anywhere near what laymen would call room temperature.
Yes, not so fast. Only if other teams can replicate LK-99 and they can confirm room temperature super conductivity will it be time to say that this changes something.
So actual hover boards soon?
Superconducting skateboard looks like a reality.
Turns out we were putting Lead into the wrong thing all along.
But the guy who put lead into gasoline proved how it wasn't poisonous, even washed his bare hands in it! (then died from totally unrelated lead poisoning)