[alsaaro]

They claim to have observed the Meisner effect, quantum locking unique to superconductors, a pretty big signal, so more likely fraud than a mistake.

[sfink]

Yes, normally when people come up with some BS about room temperature superconducting, they really just mean they've observed one of the indirect effects of superconductivity. "If you put an ohmmeter in my funky circuit, it displays zero!" Which usually just means you've come up with a clever way to break an ohmmeter.

Ejecting the magnetic field (the Meissner effect) is a way better sign.

I find it very hard to believe that this could be true, but at least they're measuring the right things.

[giarc]

How long do you think it'll take for the scientific community to determine whether this is fraud, error or the real deal?

[scarmig]

Less than a week. It's a simple material to synthesize, and the tests conducted on it are pretty typical with effect sizes that don't require any sophisticated statistics to observe.

[rotexo]

Yeah, very probably fraud. Only puzzle is why they would choose something so easy for other labs to try (and fail) to replicate.

[carabiner]

Desperate people do crazy things. This is career-ending fraud. South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world. The pressure to achieve is enormous and makes people shortsighted.

[mrguyorama]

This also wouldn't be the first time a south korean scientist blatantly made shit up to be a super special scientist in ROK.

All judgement withheld until we get a few more labs chiming in with their results though.

[hinkley]

I haven't touched much physics since college. Could the Meisner effect be observed in a material that is not superconducting? Or would that be new physics if it were the case?

I suppose that would be a useful material even if it couldn't be used for high current applications.