The Discovery of The Century or BUST? High Temperature Superconductor | Inna Vishik and Jorge Hirsch (#335)

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Breaking news! A team of scientists in South Korea has made an extraordinary claim: they have discovered a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. This means that they have found a material that can conduct electricity perfectly under everyday conditions.

This is a huge deal. If it's true, it could revolutionize many technologies. We could have perfectly efficient power grids, levitating trains, and commercially viable fusion reactors. The possibilities are endless.

But the scientific community is taking this with a grain of salt. There have been many claims of room-temperature superconductors in the past, and they've all turned out to be false. So we need to be careful before we get too excited.

The researchers behind this latest claim say that they've done their due diligence. They've repeated their experiments multiple times, and they've had their results peer-reviewed. But until their work is published in a peer-reviewed journal, we won't know for sure if they're right.

So tune in to this thrilling chat between experimentalist Professor Inna Vishik of UC Davis and my colleague Professor Jorge Hirsch, a theorist and past guest here at UCSD. This is one is a must-watch.

• Jorge's previous appearance regarding the Ranga Dias Paper  • RED FLAGS! Superconductor or FRAUD? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAMSoAUo288&t=0s
• Superconductor Showdown video:https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4
• The paper being discussed from South Korea: The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Young-Wan Kwon here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

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