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The technology is over a hundred years old, people have merely been refining it, spending their entire careers. There will be rivalry.

Assuming it is real, one must consider the perspective of the discoverer. In science, it's a race to publish and this will certainly win a Nobel Prize. That's why scientists publish in communications/letters/preprints.

This is exactly how collaborative, peer-reviewed scientific research should be. Public.