A third research paper by physicist Ranga Dias is being retracted. Earlier this year he was feted for a breakthrough.
And even if there was data manipulation, the materials might superconduct as claimed. History points to cases where scientists manipulated data but were still right. Russell Hemley, a physicist at the University of Illinois, has done experiments on similar materials, and recently replicated one of Dias’ findings. Hemley told me he stands by all his own work, though other physicists worry this second result is in error.
So Dias’ findings are the kind of extraordinary claim that Carl Sagan referred to as needing extraordinary evidence – but even if true, wouldn’t necessarily transform civilisation as the“When we discover things in general in physics, but in condensed matter physics in particular, we never know what direction it’s going to take us,” says Peter Armitage, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University. A room-temperature superconductor might still need to be chilled to get enough current to be useful.
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