alt Hacker NewsIf your hope for the future is based on believing the most obviously-impossible technological claim in the world, you're way more cynical than I am.
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idiotsecant • yesterday at 5:12 PM
Its not at all clear that room temperature superconductors are impossible, it's a materials problem. If someone was to find one that is probably how they would do it - testing materials for some other property and finding it accidentally.
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ChrisClark • yesterday at 7:15 PM
Oh god, wow. It's obviously impossible? Please please please write a paper on that, you can save so much scientist time!
Why are room temperature superconductors an 'obviously-impossible' technological claim?
Asking since we've managed to increase superconductor temperature several times in the past, right? (to ~ -130 degrees celsius right now IIRC). Why is our current temperature of, say ~30 degrees celsius special?