LK-99 var fis

Stuart Ritchie var velunderbygget skeptisk fra starten og er storsindet i sin sejr nu.

The other week a group of Korean scientists posted two preprints to arXiv claiming they’d invented just such a material, called LK-99. Twitter went mental.

I mean, really mental: threads with thousands and thousands of retweets and millions of views, with endless replies from people positively rapturous about this incredible discovery.

I didn’t believe a word of it. The same day that the hype began to build on social media, I had an article out calling it “probably nonsense”. I didn’t have any particular special insight, and of course I’m not a physicist. But this was the very basic stuff I was thinking: [...]

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Science writing update, August 2023 edition

Why I was right about the LK-99 "room-temperature superconductor" - plus all the usual updates and collected links