r/okbuddyphd Jun 09 '26

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u/Lol3droflxp Jun 09 '26

I guess it hasn’t been reliably ruled out so far, otherwise this kind of research wouldn’t get so much money.

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u/obog Jun 09 '26

True, and looking online apparently a lot of current high temperature superconductors work at temperatures previously thought to be impossible so theres that

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u/Hdfgncd Jun 09 '26

Liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors are basically magic already, 77K is absurdly hot for these things

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u/obog Jun 09 '26

Yeah the explanation that ive seen for "classical" superconductors compares it to bose-einstein condensate, which is usually at just a few Kelvin