A Korean superconductivity academic body invalidated the research results from a team of Korean researchers claiming to have developed a room-temperature superconductor in its preliminary assessment.
  • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
    491·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure how significant this is. They basically said ‘we read your study and it didn’t make sense to us, nor did the video’. There was no attempt at replication. Which would be fine and all, except that others have reported varying degrees of success in their replication attempts, indicating there’s at least a little fire behind the smoke.

    • candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      You’re right, they basically released a statement thay they’re incredible skeptical but they will test things further to see.

      That being said the company thay initially release the video like about who it worked with to develop this compound, and one or two of the people who conducted the research released the report without the approval of the whole team. So there are some tell tale signs of a scam or half truths here.

      I am hoping that this compound actually is a room temp super conductor, because it would revolutionize so many industries, but things aren’t looking great lol.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
      65·
      1 year ago

      The onus is on the researchers making the extraordinary claims.

      Extraordinary claims require solid proof. That’s like science 101.

      • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        And their proof is the report they already put out. A refusal to examine or test the proof doesn’t mean it’s invalid. That’s Science 102.

        It may be invalid, I myself am extremely skeptical, but in this situation it absolutely is possible to prove that the process described doesn’t work, that’s what replication studies are for. Replicating the experiment and reporting on the results is vastly more valuable than “Your study didn’t make sense to us.”

  • cyborganickname@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Strange, making claims so large that there’s no way they couldn’t be investigated and verified. Using names of companies that are either completely unconnected with them or have not been officially approached, in order to achieve a level of apparent credibility. What could be the end game of such an endeavour, attention? Fake it till you make it?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Further, they were shown to be liars. FTA:

    Meanwhile, the Quantum Energy Research Centre was found to have falsely named local companies and research institutes as partners on its website on Thursday.

    The company shut down its homepage that day.

    […]

    However, LG Innotek said that it “has no connection whatsoever” with Quantum Energy Research Centre.

    “We have asked the Quantum Energy Research Centre to remove our company’s logo from its website, and to explain how it has been misappropriated,” the electronic device part supplier said.

    Samsung SDI and Samsung Electro-Mechanics confirmed that “no official request has been made [from Quantum Energy] for partnership.”