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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.