A Paper Posted Last Month Claims To Have Achieved Superconductivity at Room Temperature, But Other Physicists Say the Data May Be Incorrect (vice.com)

dmoberhaus writes: Last month, two Indian physicists posted a paper to arxiv claiming to have demonstrated superconductivity at room temperature. If this paper is legitimate, it would represent a breakthrough in a problem that has existed for superconductivity for 100 years. Understandably, the paper shook the physics world, but when researchers started digging into the data they noticed something wasn't quite right -- the noise patterns in two independent measurements exactly correlated, which is basically impossible in a random system. The Indian researchers have doubled down on their data, and things only got weirder from there. This is a look inside what could be the biggest drama to happen in physics in nearly a decade.

Comments

Re:No

[johanw]

Occam's razor tells us that cheating indians is the most probable explaination.

Re:That's not even the only problem

[iggymanz]

Not that there is any merit to article's claims but

Silver layer has "proximity effect" on some superconductors, raising the transition temperature.

There is a superconducting alloy with gold, SrAuSi3