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This is sad man. You’re getting excited at manufactured hype on twitter

I think it's the videos of levitating samples that people are getting excited about. At this point it's either outright fraud (unlikely), an interesting materials science discovery that isn't superconductivity (most likely IMO), or superconductivity itself (still unlikely, but the balance of evidence is shifting).

If it happens to be the latter, it's a huge scientific leap forward.

What makes this hype "manufactured"? I've been very hyped as well ever since I read the arxiv.

Well it isn’t peer reviewed for one.

I don’t think people that are a little skeptical are being negative they are just being realistic. We’ve experienced things like this before and some of the hallmarks of the ones that let us down are there in this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_science

It has been peer reviewed - lots of scientists reviewed the paper, found various problems, some are trying to replicate it with varying success so far, some are looking for theoretical explanation. This is the essence of science, not sending it to some journal that just mails the article to the small subset of the same scientists and gather their replies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

That’s not peer review lol and real peer review is the opposite of cargo cult.

Most people are powerless to do anything so they associate themselves with movements to feel as if they are part of something meaningful

On the contrary.

Should he rather be excited about hype manufactured by entertainment or sport companies? Cause that's much more common.

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