The paper gets out faster, so people can see their amazing results earlier.
That’s precisely the problem of the entire superconductivity-at-room-temperature field and what I’m implying with the “MS Word”-remark. No other field of physics suffers so many retractions and outright data falsifications than superconductivity.
Supcerconductivity at room teperature is a holy grail that was claimed to have been achieved for the last 25 years, and every time it was either unreplicatable or data falsiciation. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - and this is what every other field seems to understand. The first direct observation of gravitational waves happened in September 2015, but the observing teams took 6 months to verify their findings before going public. The first direct observation of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger was discovered in August 2017, but only made public one month later - even though the event was accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, and everybody in the field already knew what had happened, because it was impossible to keep secret. Still, their took their time to properly check and present their results.
Now I’m seeing a MS Word paper with a few plots in it, claiming not only the holy grail of superconductivity at room temperature but also claiming to achieve it at ambient (i.e. “normal”) pressures. A double holy grail. That’d be like the holy grail just fucking right off and god themselves outright appearing as an author on the paper.
No sorry, this I just can not believe in the slightest.
You seem to be very knowledgeable about this field so I won’t try to change your mind, as I can tell you’re more familiar than I am. In fact, I also have my own reservations from reading the actual paper. The same authors actually have another paper in the same topic with the same material with a preprint out after this one, and I doubt someone would salami publish results as marvelous as these ones instead of just going for a single massive impact factor journal.
That’s precisely the problem of the entire superconductivity-at-room-temperature field and what I’m implying with the “MS Word”-remark. No other field of physics suffers so many retractions and outright data falsifications than superconductivity.
Supcerconductivity at room teperature is a holy grail that was claimed to have been achieved for the last 25 years, and every time it was either unreplicatable or data falsiciation. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - and this is what every other field seems to understand. The first direct observation of gravitational waves happened in September 2015, but the observing teams took 6 months to verify their findings before going public. The first direct observation of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger was discovered in August 2017, but only made public one month later - even though the event was accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, and everybody in the field already knew what had happened, because it was impossible to keep secret. Still, their took their time to properly check and present their results.
Now I’m seeing a MS Word paper with a few plots in it, claiming not only the holy grail of superconductivity at room temperature but also claiming to achieve it at ambient (i.e. “normal”) pressures. A double holy grail. That’d be like the holy grail just fucking right off and god themselves outright appearing as an author on the paper.
No sorry, this I just can not believe in the slightest.
You seem to be very knowledgeable about this field so I won’t try to change your mind, as I can tell you’re more familiar than I am. In fact, I also have my own reservations from reading the actual paper. The same authors actually have another paper in the same topic with the same material with a preprint out after this one, and I doubt someone would salami publish results as marvelous as these ones instead of just going for a single massive impact factor journal.