{"id":160061,"date":"2023-03-12T04:24:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/muted-response-to-new-claim-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor"},"modified":"2023-03-12T04:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:24:36","slug":"muted-response-to-new-claim-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/muted-response-to-new-claim-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Muted Response to New Claim of a Room-Temperature Superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another part of that wariness arises because, to date, no one has independently reproduced Dias\u2019 team\u2019s results. This lack of verification was raised by Jorge Hirsch of the University of California, San Diego, in the last talk of the session in which Dias and his team spoke. Hirsch argued that those claiming to have created high-temperature superconducting hydrides suffered from \u201cconfirmation bias,\u201d cherry-picking evidence to support their agenda. (Hirsch has been an outspoken critic of Dias\u2019 work.) As the last question of the session, Dias asked Hirsch, \u201cCould you also have confirmation bias?\u201d \u201cMaybe,\u201d Hirsch replied.<\/p>\n

After the session, a few attending researchers\u2014all collaborators of Dias\u2014spoke with Physics<\/i> Magazine<\/i>, telling us that they disagreed with Hirsch\u2019s cherry-picking conclusion. One of them, Russell Hemley of the University of Illinois Chicago confirmed Pasan\u2019s claim that they have replicated the 2020 carbonaceous sulfur hydride\u2014as reported in an arXiv paper that the team recently posted [3<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Dias\u2019 group still needs to more precisely characterize NLH\u2019s chemical composition, Pasan said. The samples also appear to consist of two phases, an observation that they need to investigate. Ultimately, they plan to innovate upon this material to create a superconductor at ambient pressure and temperature conditions, a goal that Pasan said he thinks is feasible. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the community has much of the latter still to gather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another part of that wariness arises because, to date, no one has independently reproduced Dias\u2019 team\u2019s results. This lack of verification was raised by Jorge Hirsch of the University of California, San Diego, in the last talk of the session in which Dias and his team spoke. Hirsch argued that those claiming to have created [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}