The Discovery of The Century or BUST? High Temperature Superconductor | Inna Vishik and Jorge Hirsch (#335)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

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🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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See the video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/live/qQnDatnAWP4?feature=share Breaking news! A team of scientists in South Korea has made an extraordinary claim: they have discovered a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. This means that they have found a material that can conduct electricity perfectly under everyday conditions. This is a huge deal. If it's true, it could revolutionize many technologies. We could have perfectly efficient power grids, levitating trains, and commercially viable fusion reactors. The possibilities are endless. But the scientific community is taking this with a grain of salt. There have been many claims of room-temperature superconductors in the past, and they've all turned out to be false. So we need to be careful before we get too excited. The researchers behind this latest claim say that they've done their due diligence. They've repeated their experiments multiple times, and they've had their results peer-reviewed. But until their work is published in a peer-reviewed journal, we won't know for sure if they're right. So tune in to this thrilling chat between experimentalist Professor Inna Vishik of UC Davis and my colleague Professor Jorge Hirsch, a theorist and past guest here at UCSD. This is one is a must-watch. Jorge's previous appearance regarding the Ranga Dias Paper • RED FLAGS! Superconductor or FRAUD? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAMSoAUo288&t=0s Superconductor Showdown video:https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4 The paper being discussed from South Korea: The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor by Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Young-Wan Kwon here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008 Please join my mailing list 👉 briankeating.com/list for your chance to win a real meteorite 💥! Join me and ⁦Lawrence Krauss for an Onstage Dialogue ⁦at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-onstage-dialogue-brian-keating-lawrence-m-krauss-tickets-699430514497 Support The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast by supporting our sponsors: Post your free listing at LinkedIn Jobs https://www.linkedin.com/impossible Thanks HelloFresh! Go to https://www.hellofresh.com/impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus free shipping! As an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off a MASTERCLASS annual membership masterclass.com/impossible Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My first reaction was no.
0:06.0	the reason being that if you're in this field there are the so-called unidentified superconducting objects like new claimed high temperature room temperatures superconductors that pop up reliably every year or so. The upshot is not a room
0:27.1	temperature superconductor. My feeling about it has sort of evolved into cautious curiosity.
0:37.0	Well, it's a very open question.
0:39.0	In my mind, whether this will ever be a supercondors that can be useful for anything.
0:45.0	But I certainly do not discount and I think there is a very strong possibility that
0:50.0	there is traces of superconducting materials in these samples that are doing this remarkable thing.
0:58.0	Welcome to your listeners to this superconductor update episode of Into the Impossible.
1:08.5	The field of condensed matter physics has been heating up, with recent claims regarding
1:12.3	the discovery of room temperature superconducting materials.
1:15.8	First, the controversial publication by Ranga Diaz and his team at the University of Rochester,
1:21.1	New York, about their endoped lutitium hydride.
1:25.4	And now, a team of scientists in South Korea has claimed that they too have discovered another
1:29.8	room temperature ambient pressure super connector, a material called LK99, a modified lead appetite crystal.
1:37.5	Could this be it?
1:39.9	Are we truly at the precipice of a technological revolution in electronics, power
1:43.2	transmission, transportation, and much more?
1:46.6	Prepare to geek out with your host, physics professor extraordinary Brian Heating and
1:51.8	his skeptical guests,
1:53.2	Professors Enoviscik and Jorge Hirsch.
1:57.2	If you love getting your science firsthand
1:59.3	and going behind the headlines and hype,
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