• @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32•2 years ago

    I think we’re going to see the claims on this material fully validated. I’ve seen enough evidence so far to suggest that the inconsistencies/ failures to replicate are due to the difficulties in production, not the material itself. And sure, those difficulties are well, difficult. But that’s really quite secondary to the discovery so long as it replicates. Those engineering questions will be solved in time.

    It seems that room temperature superconduction is, well, a thing.

    • Uprise42
      11•2 years ago

      This material will probably never make a difference to the everyday person. The discovery that lead to this material will help produce better materials that will change our everyday lives.

      The first lightbulb was well refined before being sold in large. Almost every major discovery affects few people. It’s the subsequent discoveries that affect our lives

      • @hyperhopper@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        ???

        Are you saying the lightbulb has only helped few people? Are you saying the lightbulb was not a major discovery?

        The lightbulb changed the world and affected billions. The transistor changed the world and affected bullions. A room temperature superconductor likely will as well.

        • QuokkaEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          I think they’re saying the earliest invented lightbulb didn’t help the majority, it was the later mass produced in our daily lives model that did.

          I don’t know shit about earliest lightbulbs, so I don’t know if that analogy really works tho.

        • Uprise42
          2•2 years ago

          I meant more so that the first lightbulb didn’t. It had to go through changes and be refined to actually be usable. Maybe a lightbulb wasn’t the best example, but the concept is that the initial discovery is not usually impactful to most people but the inventions those discoveries lead to are whats important to the everyday person. The superconductor has multiple issues, and I doubt this material will find its way in anything in our lives. But if opens a new avenue of research which will lead to other materials which will find their ways into our lives.

          • PyrEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Of course the first light bulb didn’t change the world, but it paved the way. It was the start. This could be the same thing.