Because if you can make one at 25C, why bother with one at -100C?
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ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 1 year agoI guess that is sort of what bugs me. Why are we jumping from one extreme to the other instead of figuring out stuff in between first.
Squeak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wahming@monyet.cc 1 year ago
It’s not a video game tech tree. Scientific progress isn’t linear. We hypothesise, we experiment, and sometimes we get lucky. If it was an engineering problem we could make incremental improvements to the manufacturing process to get small improvements in the results, but it’s not.
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not an intentional jump. Most superconductors are extremely impractical for consumer use (and even just cold ones are too realistically) and materials scientists are always just chasing improvements, this one just happens to be a very dramatic one. Popular science is only a small chunk of what’s happening globally.
Again, I say all this under the hopes that the SK guys aren’t full of shit because this would actually be so cool.