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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4333257 > Professor Philip Moriarty takes issue with a paper by scientists claiming to achieve room temperature superconductivity. > > The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008 > > Key critique points: > > * Team has little to no background in superconductivity > * Evidence of levitation can be explained without superconductivity > * Graph showing drop in resistance uses a scale which is orders of magnitude off the scale > * Graph showing drop in resistance shows it does not drop (close) to zero > > Phil regrets this bad publication which received so much attention could have a negative impact on credibility of science as a whole. > > > * https://piped.video/watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo > * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo