A group claims to have done it, and has released a description of the work, saying that it was too important to restrict.
Seems more on the up-and-up than many…
That looks like it was released March 17, 2011. Has anybody heard of anything about it since then? Seems like it would have made big ripples if it were true.
Yeah, that was what I was wondering. We should at least hear scoffing…
The report is from March 17.
It looks like superconductors.org is, basically, a person named Joe Eck. I can’t find any information about where or how he carries out research, but it does appear that some of the discoveries he’s announced at that website have been confirmed by other labs. I can’t find any follow up to this particular one, though.
Obviously we need more documentation. We need The Eck’s Files!
Seeing as “room temperature”, according to some definitions, is precisely 20 degrees, his findings seem suspiciously convenient.
Wouldn’t this be revolutionary? Like literally world changing?
Depends on how easy it is to make.
Mmmm. Superconductor/magnetic levitation roads… I should invest in neodymium futures.
Around here, in the winter, room temperature is often 15 degrees. I believe that the official definition of ‘room temperature’ according to the Ontario building code is 21 degrees. So they’re well within the error bars…
Pons? Fleischmann? Is that you?
According to the article, not very. Although it mentions “until refining techniques” are developed. Is refining a special process?
Actual scientists who discovered room temperature superconductors would have published the information in Science, not a website that looks like it was made in 1995. The front page has a visitor counter and a rotating gif of the word “email” for crying out loud.
Whatever, dude. You probably don’t even believe in the scientific truths of the Time Cube.
So, you’re saying looks count for more than content? The whole point of science is to test things! If it gets tested and it doesn’t work, and they don’t acknowledge the testing, then you can scoff your heart out.
We need to see who else has tested this, and what the results were.
He was a participant in SETI. Here’s his profile. A man ahead of the curve.
I repeat: testing is the only way to take care of his claims.
It says “I think there is a strong possibility of extraterrestrial life based on a passage in the Bible.”
Regardless, the actual paper seems credible and easily falsifiable. Just needs testing.
Which was the point of the link–he’s passionate about his work, but doesn’t seem to understand that replication by other parties is necessary for his own work to be taken seriously. ET and the Bible? Puh-leaze!
On the other hand, there are those out there who are sleazy enough to claim his work as there own. I’ve encountered this before looking up application notes in electrical engineering, and finding Ph.D and Master’s students in third world countries claiming the work of Agilent or Tektronics as their own. Anything written outside of the US, Europe, and Japan, I ignore.
That’s technically true, but we don’t have infinite resources, so in the real world, we need to choose what we’re going to test next. And choosing what to test using the credibility of the claimant, as well as consistency of the claim with what we already know, is perfectly rational, logical, and reasonable. Science should be testing modest claims of respected peer-reviewed scientists before it tests revolutionary claims from whack-jobs, and if it never gets around to the whack-jobs, that’s OK.