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Breakthroughs are exciting; hoping it's true! But I understand nothing of this field What's the general consensus here, real or not?

by toshk 3y ago

chpatrick 3y ago
Burma-Shave
- sebastianconcpt 3y ago
  I had to Google what Burma-Shave is :)
oxfordmale 3y ago
It is a discovery of an interesting semi conductor with strong diamagnetism. It will likely spur a lot of new solid state physics research.
- beanjuice 3y ago
  Sources for this as the consensus take? Or is this your personal take? As far as I have heard, it is still well under discussion, especially with more recently (per this weekend) levitating flakes, and the fact that noone has successfully replicated a certain-failure of actual conducting properties.
singularity2001 3y ago
The consensus 'here' unfortunately does not seem to reflect the very critical consensus amongst r/Physics : https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/15i3h9d/lk99_megathread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/15i3h9d/lk99_megat...
- Freedom2 3y ago
  The comments here are of a higher quality (due to top tier moderation) and generally the community is smarter and more in tune. I'd go with the HN consensus any day, over some random subreddit.
  - GuB-42 3y ago
    It is not some random subreddit, it is r/physics. HN is a tech forum, plenty of smart people in there, but also plenty of people who think they know more than they really do. Lots of arrogance in here. I am guilty of it myself, and some of my posts got a lot of upvotes even though it was way out of my field of expertise. I try to get things right, fact checking and all that, but my opinion is certainly not worth that of an expert. All that to say that on tech matters, I think HN is pretty good, because that's where the tech guys go. But for physics, I'd go for r/physics.
hcks 3y ago
The consensus on HN is that it’s le epic exciting discovery. The consensus among physicist is that’s it’s likely to be a dud
- justrealist 3y ago
  > The consensus among physicist is that’s it’s likely to be a dud That's really not true. It's unclear whether it's a superconductor, but the consensus worst-case outcome is that something very unexpected is happening, which is in itself worth learning more about.

Breakthroughs are exciting; hoping it's true! But I understand nothing of this field What's the general consensus here, real or not?

by toshk 3y ago

Breakthroughs are exciting; hoping it's true! But I understand nothing of this field What's the general consensus here, real or not?

chpatrick 3y ago

Burma-Shave

sebastianconcpt 3y ago
I had to Google what Burma-Shave is :)

oxfordmale 3y ago

It is a discovery of an interesting semi conductor with strong diamagnetism. It will likely spur a lot of new solid state physics research.

beanjuice 3y ago
Sources for this as the consensus take? Or is this your personal take? As far as I have heard, it is still well under discussion, especially with more recently (per this weekend) levitating flakes, and the fact that noone has successfully replicated a certain-failure of actual conducting properties.

singularity2001 3y ago

The consensus 'here' unfortunately does not seem to reflect the very critical consensus amongst r/Physics : https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/15i3h9d/lk99_megathread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/15i3h9d/lk99_megat...

Freedom2 3y ago
The comments here are of a higher quality (due to top tier moderation) and generally the community is smarter and more in tune. I'd go with the HN consensus any day, over some random subreddit.
- GuB-42 3y ago
  It is not some random subreddit, it is r/physics. HN is a tech forum, plenty of smart people in there, but also plenty of people who think they know more than they really do. Lots of arrogance in here. I am guilty of it myself, and some of my posts got a lot of upvotes even though it was way out of my field of expertise. I try to get things right, fact checking and all that, but my opinion is certainly not worth that of an expert. All that to say that on tech matters, I think HN is pretty good, because that's where the tech guys go. But for physics, I'd go for r/physics.

hcks 3y ago

The consensus on HN is that it’s le epic exciting discovery. The consensus among physicist is that’s it’s likely to be a dud

justrealist 3y ago
> The consensus among physicist is that’s it’s likely to be a dud That's really not true. It's unclear whether it's a superconductor, but the consensus worst-case outcome is that something very unexpected is happening, which is in itself worth learning more about.