Breakthroughs are exciting; hoping it's true!
But I understand nothing of this field
What's the general consensus here, real or not?
But I understand nothing of this field
What's the general consensus here, real or not?
That's really not true. It's unclear whether it's a superconductor, but the consensus worst-case outcome is that something very unexpected is happening, which is in itself worth learning more about.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/15i3h9d/lk99_megat...
HN is a tech forum, plenty of smart people in there, but also plenty of people who think they know more than they really do. Lots of arrogance in here. I am guilty of it myself, and some of my posts got a lot of upvotes even though it was way out of my field of expertise. I try to get things right, fact checking and all that, but my opinion is certainly not worth that of an expert.
All that to say that on tech matters, I think HN is pretty good, because that's where the tech guys go. But for physics, I'd go for r/physics.
It will likely spur a lot of new solid state physics research.