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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)

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Researchers have discovered a new compound called LK-99 that could enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. Two separate sources have provided very preliminary confirmations of this breakthrough, including a simulation indicating it could be possible and a short video from Chinese researchers that seems to indicate some properties of superconductivity.

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

No way this is true, come on. Room temperature super conductor made by some simple chemical reaction?

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Why not? The search space is massive, and it's not the first time humanity stumbled upon some simple revolutionary discovery.

Just because we failed to figure out the conceptually simple thing until now, doesn't mean it can't be the case. Anything else is just some form of human exceptionalism.

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